Brain teaser!

[veggiechicken]

I feel a bit nervous about not being a spade.

Not half as nervous as Zaz should be

[rustylady]

Yes, I was a red hammer. Wierd.

[di]

Possibly the first time I've ever been part of the norm...red hammer here too.

[bearded bloke]

Now I am trying to remember why red & hammer,fairly sure red is because it is generally associated with warmth (heat & colour from an open fire) but hammer is gonna bug me until I get it

[zazen999]

Not half as nervous as Zaz should be

I'm never nervous.

[veggiechicken]

I'm never nervous.

Just trying to reassure the trowels amongst us, but don't let on

[ladylottie]

I thought of a Red Fork (but I did waver a bit but then couldn't think of anything else but a fork).
So I'm one of the 2%, but then I never did go with the flow. But why is everyone thinking Red Hammer?

[mothhawk]

I thought of a Red Fork (but I did waver a bit but then couldn't think of anything else but a fork).
So I'm one of the 2%, but then I never did go with the flow. But why is everyone thinking Red Hammer?

Red is a paradigmatic colour - blood is red - it is a colour we associate with danger and are alert for from a very early age, so it is always at the forefront of the mind. Hammer is a simple, generic tool that everyone has seen or used at some time (think little kids with plastic ones hammering pegs, cavemen with rocks etc), it is ingrained again at an early age. So red and hammer are bound to occur more frequently when a random selection of people are questioned.

The grapevine is not a random selection because we are all gardeners, hence the abundance of gardening tools as answers.

FTR I said red spade.

[DiggerJ]

red mallet.... but i have just hit my foot with the bl**dy thing while putting in a post...so I know how my brain works, it pays attention to pain

[Aberdeenplotter]

another red spade. Mind you, If I did wood work as a hobby it could well have been a chisel

[Bigmallly]

It would have been interesting if we had been asked to name a coloured garden tool. I would imagine there would have been a lot of red/blue spades/forks with the odd trowel thrown in.

[binley100]

ermmmmmm.........another one with brain freeze.......
and thats probably cos I have the concentration span of a gnat at the moment .........

[veggiechicken]

OK, You've mostly all worked out my theory - that is, if you ask a bunch of gardeners to name a tool it will not be a hammer!. So the odd 2% will be skewed, in fact probably reversed, as most of us here have not chosen a hammer.
Apparently the whole puzzle is ridiculous anyway and intended to leave you wondering whether you are in the minority 2% with the abnormal brain or fall into the "normal" group and that makes you wonder what you're missing out on!
In my defence, I didn't realise this when I posted the question, as I had just received it in an email and couldn't believe that I could be in the odd 2% - but was quite pleased to think that I was! If you Goggle "red hammer" you'll find lots of theories about it!

[binley100]

Maxwell had a silver hammer ........oops wrong thread

[bearded bloke]

Trini Lopez never had one but would have been busy if he had had one .......... ditto re the thread