Typical engineer...never HIS fault!
I think you are right about the literal and visual configuration of the average male mind. Men are very visual as a rule.
When my brain/learning style testing came back in nursing school, I turned out to be smakcl in tthe middle of virtually every category...which is, I suppose, what explains why I like my cooking utensils and supplies hung up, like you see wrenches in a garage, innstead of hidden in drawers. So, I do understand why he is the way he is; that still doesn't make me like a mouse magnet in my house.
There is a compromise in the two mindsets...for me, that is putting things in transparent boxes and labeling them clearly. He will look at the labels, but like Suey's husband, has to put on his glasses to read them.
