Male brain vs female brain

In an earlier post I talked about fashioning some kind of rest under my desk to help keep my leg elevated.

After a forage around the office I found string, a tray from the canteen and some good-sized clips from which I began trying to fashion a concealed pulley-system.

A female friend wondered what I was doing, looked bemused as I explained excitedly the feat of engineering I was attempting.

"Or you could use that?" she said, pointing to a box of files that would fit at the perfect height under my desk.

It seems to be working, though is somewhat less aesthetically pleasing than my solution would have been.