Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the gender-based procurement division

here at Caratalk Plaza, i.e. Gifts for Men. We figure that some of you are faced with this

very dilemma at this time of year, what to buy for the man in your life. And Richard

Pullman from ufL.edu, is that University of Florida or is an unidentified

flying educator, sent us this treatise on the subject. What it says is gifts for men. Buying gifts for men

is not nearly as complicated as it is for women. Follow these rules and you should have no problems.

And then there are three pages of rules, but I'll just give you a couple of them. Summarized. I liked. Rule number one. When in doubt, buy him a cordless drill. It does not matter if he already has one. I have a friend who owns 17 cordless drills and he has yet to complain. As a man, you can never have too many cordless drills. No one knows why. That's true.

Isn't it the truth? I bought my nephew three of them. That's what you did. Oh, well.

I mean, the second time, it was excusable, but the third time. Come on. I ran out of ideas.

Rule seven. Buy a man a label maker.

Almost as good as a quarter's drill.

Within a couple of weeks, there will be labels absolutely everywhere.

Sox, shorts, cups, sauces, sink.

Labels.

No one knows why. Jeez, it's sink. Labels. No one knows why.

Jesus, true.

Rule 9.

Good places to shop for men include Northwest Ironworks, Paral Lumber, Home Depot, John Deere, Valley

RV Center, and Les Schwab tire.

Napa Auto Parts and Sears clearance centers are also excellent men's stores.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't know what it is.

Ah, it's from Napa Auto.

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