The Curse Of Electronic Garage Doors

Electronic garage doors are yet another sign of lazy people are becoming and how much more people are thinking about status and what the other people in the burb are thinking of them and their home improvements.
For years car owners were content to park their cars under an awning or some other form of carport, then garages appeared on the car scene and everyone suddenly needed to have at least one. This was ok even if it was more than a little bit frivolous given the very mild nature of the weather in South Africa.
The burbs then exploded with madness as soon as one home owner saw, on his/her favourite TV show, how someone just sat in his/her car pressed a button and the electronic garage doors did the rest. How an idea so steeped in laziness and vanity took off in a country like South Africa where a practical nature was always a virtue, remains a mystery; or does it?
One can almost see the exchange taking place between husband and wife. She has just seen these electronic garage doors in action and knowing that her ever practical South African husband would never agree to pay some other man to install something as silly as electronic garage doors in a country with such lovely weather; she instead uses her feminine wiles to broach the subject in another way. She appeals to his pride and enquires if it would be within his range of skills to figure out how to make her garage doors electronic.
This is of course nothing but a simple question, definitely not a request. She knows now that the seed of electronic garage doors has been planted he will be able to think of nothing else until he has at the very least spoken to his mate at the DIY shop and maybe to one or two of his other friends. He cannot, however, tell them too much in case they steal his idea. Once work on the electronic garage doors has begun, the snowball starts rolling. All the guys will want to know what he is working on and that is all it takes.