Home sick today and I’m due for a soul clearing confession.
Last week I picked up a thirty inch left handed out swing door to replace a door from a client’s den to the garage. I was in a hurry at the lumber yard and had it loaded into the truck without checking it. The carpet layers were waiting to finish up and couldn’t until the door was in. As I’m almost back to the site I glance in the rear view mirror and notice they gave me a right handed door. I’m screwed I thought. I bestowed every concieveable four letter word upon the salesman. When I ordred it, I even gave him a diagram of the swing of the door so there wouldn’t be a mixup. I worked myself into quite a lather.
I get to the house and run inside ranting and raving telling the carpet guys, sorry they sent the wrong door. Just leave the carpet long and I’ll trim it when we get the right door. My phone rang at that point and I went out to the back deck where it is quiet, to take the call. I came back to the garage about five minutes later and my guys had the door installed. The thirty inch LEFT handed out swing door!
Gee whiz, I guess in a mirror a left handed door becomes a right handed door.
Any more boneheads out there?
Constructing in metric…
every inch of the way.
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Not going to start telling on myself, nosiree!
Sphere told how he'd once shoot a rabbit with a shot from the hip and hasn't heard the end of it since then.
You got the flu bug?
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John Ruskin
Andrew Clifford of Clifford Renovations, who serves as a steward of our history for future generations
We can imagine something that only exists in our heads, in a form that has no measurable, tangible reality, and make it actually occur in the real world. Where there was nothing, now there is something.
Forrest - makin' magic every day
Edited 10/6/2006 1:50 pm ET by rez
I goota real stupid one to top that.When I was a teenager, I shot a crow on the wing with a .22 at eighty some yards. It has haunted me to this day, that had I missed, as high as that bird was, the lead could have gone far enough to hurt somebody.I had been scoping him just to watch his flight in the four power, when I got tempted. I was realy out for woodchucks and got bored.
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Well, if you ever get bored again I got this one big woodchuck I can't get a bead on for nothing. Slick operator always staying secluded when I show up. Digs into sheds and yadayada.
His brother wasn't so smart and would just sit there with his head hanging out a shed opening enjoying the sun.
If they'd just stay at the far end near the woods I'd gladly let it be, but the suckers keep wrecking everything and when you start hearing growling noises in yer own shed...
"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone." --John RuskinAndrew Clifford of Clifford Renovations, who serves as a steward of our history for future generationsWe can imagine something that only exists in our heads, in a form that has no measurable, tangible reality, and make it actually occur in the real world. Where there was nothing, now there is something.Forrest - makin' magic every day
feed him a Paslode fuel cell...
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"You got the flu bug?"
My son had a cold and gave it to my daughter who gave it to me. I got a fever and chills though. Seem more like the plague.
At least I can't do anything stooopid today. Just soup and naps.Constructing in metric...
every inch of the way.
"Any more boneheads out there?"
Yea, every single one of us. I don't care to dredge them all up, but el Cabeza de Bone, has visited me on many occasions.
I hold my hand up as another 'bonehead'. I have just spent an hour looking for a cell phone, went out in the rain, down to the yard, searched my vehicle and could not find it. Eventually I did find it, in another pocket of my holdall, in the house, where it should be!
Before you start looking for something make sure it is lost.
NICK
That's why I have two cell phones...
To call the other one when I lose it.Constructing in metric...
every inch of the way.
I was once working on a site and left the phone on the windscreen wipers, so that I could hear it. Drove off and was a few miles down the road when it started raining, put the wipers on and remembered where I had put the phone, as it sailed through the air. It hit the road and broke into 4 bits. It still worked after reassembly!
NICK
My brother and I once had a contest to see who's bow could shoot an arrow higher ...
My brother and I once had a contest to see who's bow could shoot an arrow higher ...
Where'd you plant him?
I had a client with a stump. Was there with my compact tractor for something else. He asked me to hook a chain around the 8' d. rootball to pull it out of the hole.
I figured, sure, won't budge and that'll be the end of it. Unfortunately I didn't bother to turn the tractor around, hooked the chain around the front axle, and proceeded to back down the hill... leaving the front axle behind.
But that's how I met my retired machinist buddy. After 4 machine shops turned me down on re-engineering the axle mount. He's got the talent to match my imagination. And I haven't lost the axle since.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Not the greatest, but it is my latest.
Measured up for part of a floor that needed poured about two weeks ago.
Figured the odd sizes and added a yard.
Ordered 28 yards and a call back to teh plant for the 1+ yard I would probably need to finish the pour of the day.
Poured 21 yards out and was done.
Had a full truck sitting there, driver is a buddy, so he just laughed.
7 yards of concrete, 75.00 per yard.
I'M A BONEHEAD!She said, "Tell me, are you a christion child?"
I Said, "Ma'am I am tonight" from, Walking in Memphis
November 18th, be the walker
Welcome to the club!
Iv'e had to eat a lot of job mistakes but eating concrete is hard. :-)Constructing in metric...
every inch of the way.