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RebelDarlin
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: Ever have Lucille Ball or Tim Taylor Moment? |
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I guess there is a reason I live alone, no one gets to see the stupid moments. :oops:
I was putting together the new Adirondack chairs (couldn't fit the assembled ones in the Civic) and apparently NOT paying attention. I evidently used the wrong size screws to attach the slats to the back because I wound up screwing the whole thing to my deck. :evil: |
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Twilight Flyer
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: I evidently used the wrong size screws to attach the slats to the back because I wound up screwing the whole thing to my deck
:shock: :shock: :shock:
ROTFLMAO!
All right, that was a good one. Thanks for the laugh. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yeah, I've had moments such as that...but that was just funny. :D |
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Drew10
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: I wound up screwing the whole thing to my deck.
OK....Thats funny.... :lol: :lol:
Quote: (couldn't fit the assembled ones in the Civic)
Here lies the problem....Not that you "screwed" up the assembly of your chairs. You need a full size carbon emitting, gas guzzling, Globel Warming causing.....Pickup. :wink:
May I suggest a Ford F450, dually....Problem solved.
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RebelDarlin
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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Twilight Flyer wrote: Quote: I evidently used the wrong size screws to attach the slats to the back because I wound up screwing the whole thing to my deck
:shock: :shock: :shock:
ROTFLMAO!
All right, that was a good one. Thanks for the laugh. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Yeah, I've had moments such as that...but that was just funny. :D
I learned a long time ago sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself! :lol: Glad you enjoyed it, so did my neighbor. I've lived here 3 years and watching this little fiasco he finally decided to come over and introduce himself and see if I needed any help. UUUHHH Nope! :evil: |
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RebelDarlin
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Drew10 wrote: Quote: I wound up screwing the whole thing to my deck.
OK....Thats funny.... :lol: :lol:
Quote: (couldn't fit the assembled ones in the Civic)
Here lies the problem....Not that you "screwed" up the assembly of your chairs. You need a full size carbon emitting, gas guzzling, Globel Warming causing.....Pickup. :wink:
May I suggest a Ford F450, dually....Problem solved.
Yes it was pretty funny! I'm still laughing about it. I did mke myself late for my Union meeting though. And about the Civic, right now I'm pretty pleased with getting 36 mpg, so I'll deal with not being able to haul home a pair of chairs. :wink: |
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got mud?
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:54 pm Post subject: Re: Does anyone else ever have a Lucille Ball Moment? |
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RebelDarlin wrote: I guess there is a reason I live alone, no one gets to see the stupid moments. :oops:
I was putting together the new Adirondack chairs (couldn't fit the assembled ones in the Civic) and apparently NOT paying attention. I evidently used the wrong size screws to attach the slats to the back because I wound up screwing the whole thing to my deck. :evil:
one of my finer moments:
its three oclock in the morning and I decided that the leaking faucet in the bathroom needs to be fixed then because I can't sleep. (never worked on faucets before) I pop the cap off the cold water knob and see a screw. ok tighten screw and water will stop running. wrong! now its worse. ok loosen screw and see how this thing works. I look at my wife and say "i'm really not sure how this works" just then the knob pops off and water goes shooting everywhere :oops: to make it worse the plumber who plumed the house had NO shut offs to any of the sink lines. only shut off was in basement. I now know that there is a little rubber seal inside a faucet that goes bad and that is why they leak. I also learned how to replace drywall and ceilings :oops: |
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Twilight Flyer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Ah, home repairs. I typically do all that in my house...I learn as I go if I don't know how to do it. One of my finer moments was just 2 weeks ago replacing a faucet in the downstair bathroom.
Imagine laying down with your head up inside the cabinet and right under the sink.
Imagine working with plumbers pliers (large and heavy) on a particularly difficult nut, right above your head.
Imagine the pliers slipping out of your hand.
Imagine gravity. |
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Rev.Vassago
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:49 am Post subject: |
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Twilight Flyer wrote: Ah, home repairs. I typically do all that in my house
Your house is always a good place to do home repairs. After all, if you did them in your car, or at work, or at the beach, they really wouldn't be considered home repairs, now would they? :P |
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Twilight Flyer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:20 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, yer a funny one, ain't ya? :P
What I meant to say was that I always did repairs at my house because I hate paying someone else to do it. But the way you took it was funnier. :lol: :lol: |
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Rev.Vassago
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:13 am Post subject: |
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Twilight Flyer wrote: Yeah, yer a funny one, ain't ya? :P
What I meant to say was that I always did repairs at my house because I hate paying someone else to do it. But the way you took it was funnier. :lol: :lol:
Thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the veal. |
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RebelDarlin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Plumbing is one area that I've learned it's better to pay someone else to do. It was a garbage disposal incedent. I'd really rather not talk about it. :oops:
Good to hear that I'm not the only one who has, maybe we should call them Tim Taylor moments. :wink:
This summer I plan on putting a new railing on the deck and painting the house, so it's going to be an interesting summer. :wink: |
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Drew10
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:27 am Post subject: |
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
Good one Rev....sorry TF...but... Im laughing at you not with you...
Ive been needing these good laughs, and resently the board has been supplying them. :) |
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RebelDarlin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Twilight Flyer wrote: Ah, home repairs. I typically do all that in my house...I learn as I go if I don't know how to do it. One of my finer moments was just 2 weeks ago replacing a faucet in the downstair bathroom.
Imagine laying down with your head up inside the cabinet and right under the sink.
Imagine working with plumbers pliers (large and heavy) on a particularly difficult nut, right above your head.
Imagine the pliers slipping out of your hand.
Imagine gravity.
Ouch! :nervous: I own, not one, but two different sizes, of under sink wrenches because you know there is no such thing as a "standard" size anything. :evil: |
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RebelDarlin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Drew10 wrote: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Good one Rev....sorry TF...but... Im laughing at you not with you...
Ive been needing these good laughs, and resently the board has been supplying them. :)
Rev is ALWAYS funny! Haven't you ever noticed that? |
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Twilight Flyer
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:10 am Post subject: |
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Yep. Pliers + Head = wife saying "Watch your language!" :P
I had another one a few years back. I was breaking down a large wooden frame and went to stomp on a board in order to pull it from another board...attached together with 10 penny nails. At about the same moment I did that, I realized that I had just had a blonde moment and forgotten to brace the board it was attached to with a foot or something. So, it acted like like a catapult, bringing the unimpeded other board up toward my backside at rapid speed...
...it was a board that had already been pried frome a different board that was attached to it.
...and it still had a 10 penny nail driven through it.
Let's just say that I'm glad I have pretty good reflexes and that the trip to the emergancy room was to patch up the nail hole in my hand instead of my derrier.
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