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"Um . . . oops?"
Cygnus X1 7505 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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05-26-05, 11:22 AM (EST)
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"Um . . . oops?" |
I just made a 30-minute chore into a 2-hour chore.I was mowing the front lawn of Casa del Cyg and had gone to the weed whacker. The top cover of said whacker had come off. Only a couple minutes in, I was into the small garden by the front door of our townhouse. Next thing I know . . . THWACK! BAM! CRASH! #tinkle# (no, that last part wasn't me, but it almost was!) The wheed whacker must have gotten hold of a rock and sent it sailing perfectly into the upper corner of our storm door's glass pane. It was shattered (shadoobie). Now all I have to do is figure out how to get the silly frame out . . . and pick the glass shards out of the garden. We recently had a thread about stupid injuries. How about other plays like the one I just made that involved damage, but no injuries? It was shocking, pretty, and annoying. It was shockprenoying! . . . naaah, that doesn't work.
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Seana 5044 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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05-26-05, 11:54 AM (EST)
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Hiya, Cygnus!Sorry to hear about your window. Here's mine: at the grocery store, they installed garbage cans on the outside rail of the cart return. A neat idea, so people don't leave garbage in the carts. So I parked my car in the space right next to the cart return and needed to straighten up a bit. I backed up and heard the most awful noise. I had bent my passenger side mirror. My last car had bendy arm thing so this wouldn't happen. My brain refused to admit that I wasn't in that car. DH was really nice about it. He fixed it up with some duct tape until we could afford to have the damn thing replaced. $300 later... Whenever I get too full of myself, I have a little look at my new mirror. The best part is how my 6-year-old remembers. If it looks like I'm going for a spot near the cart return, she tells me not to break the mirror again.
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badger 1273 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beef Jerky Spokesperson"
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05-26-05, 03:20 PM (EST)
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i am also in mower hell. a 2 hour chore has taken me days to resolve (well, it's still unresolved, i guess, as the lawn still hasn't been mowed)i *was* proud of myself for taking over mr. badger's yard duties... 'til tuesday afternoon, when i hit a large rock with the mower and bent the blade. A LOT. so i went to the store and bought a new blade. took the old one off, put the new one on -- pretty good, "for a girl." until i couldn't get the lawnmower to start again. apparently, when i turned the mower onto its side to fix it, all the gas drained into the air filter (i think that was the problem -- Literature is my specialty, not Mechanics). i've just bought a new air filter. but now it's, like, 90 degrees. NOT lawn-mowing weather. and the lawn is beginning to be jungle-like. and the new blade is "crappy" (so says mr. badger) dammit. and of course, all of this makes me feel woefully inadequate. and makes mr. badger feel woefully inadequate, too
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Ellehcar71 163 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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05-26-05, 04:13 PM (EST)
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So that's what was wrong with my mower yesterday! Thanks for the help! (con you believe it didn't even occur to me to ask OT, yet I found the answer, anyway!)
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Silvergirl1 9342 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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05-26-05, 09:21 PM (EST)
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Yikes! Shards of glass scare me. DH put up a wall cabinet and nicked a drain pipe. A small amount of leakage, thank goodness, and it was easy to repair. Silvergirl
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