I am ticked..!!!!

[RSKY]

For somebody nearly sixty-two years old you would expect them to have a little common sense.

Talking about myself.

Had a pipe crack in my little bathroom off the master bedroom. Went to pee at 3:00 one morning and stepped in water. That is never good. Had to tear up the wood flooring. Since then I have done every single thing wrong! EVERY SINGLE THING. Have broke tools. Cut flooring wrong. Spilled paint in the bedroom. Ruined good paint brushes. Chipped the bathtub with a dropped drill. Broke pipes and sprayed water on the subfloor after spending a week drying it out.

I stepped on the wax ring after removing the commode with my BARE FOOT! GAG..!!

After finally getting the vanity installed this afternoon I was applying caulk to it to hold the sink. Kept squeezing the trigger of the caulk gun but nothing was coming out. So I continued to squeeze harder. The tube was split and the adhesive was dripping on the floor I had spent two days installing.

Taking me three weeks to do a one week job. And I'm not finished yet.

Wife doesn't even laugh anymore. She just says, "poor baby", and leaves the room (to laugh where I can't hear her).

Anybody else ever have a project like that??

RSKY

 

[bcp]

I never make misteaks.

Bruce

 

[dieselcrawler]

Murphey's Law at work. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphey was a very pessimistic but honest guy...

Hang in there. You'll get it...

 

[TomSeller]

I never do anything right the first time. But I learn from my mistakes unless I forget what I learned. Then maybe I do something right the second time. By the time I am on my third, I am thinking "this seems familiar".

A "perfect" job that was hired out does not have the satisfaction of a job done by yourself, even if a correctable error or two exists.

Don't sweat it. A toilet overflow is part of life. Shiit happens.

 

[cat fever]

I never make misteaks.

Bruce

X2
I worked on my haybine last summer for about 8 hours one day and nearly killed myself, (not kidding) to make an adjustment that should have taken 20 minutes at the most.
In the end I got the job done and I'm still alive.
Here's the haybine in action.

 

[2ndhalf]

Uhhh yeh pretty much every one I do. I have coined the phrase if there is a hard way to do it, I'll find it but I'll get er done. You got it done didn't you? That's what matters :thumbsup:

 

[oosik]

Wait until you hit 73, you young whipper snapper. I've long forgotten what "experience" has tried to teach me. However, I do know that any project will teach three things.
#1 - once you grasp the magnitude of the project, it becomes a whole lot less important than you originally thought
#2 - doing the project over & over teaches you, ultimately, the best & correct way it should have been done the first time
#3 - forgetfulness allows you to only remember the joys of project completion

 

[Wagtail]

Oh. That kind of 'ticked'.

I thought you'd been bit somewhere, ah, on your person.

Why don't you and the Mrs. just take a little vacatio... Oh, right, that didn't go so well either did it.

 

[Looking4new]

Do it often enough and you will get it right and then promptly forget how you did it.

 

[Pepsiboy]

I never make misteaks.

Bruce

bcp,

All I can say is "YEAH,- - - - - - RIGHT ! ! !" ullinghair:

Dave

 

[kevin37b]

Are you still on those meds?

 

[ustmd]

Some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you.

 

[blackdog2086]

I now have a formula of estimating the time required to do a job.........then quadrupling it and eventually doubling that amount. I am extremely surprised when a job goes as planned. I usually have to run to the wife and give her an "I told you so" when it happens. She doesn't get a lot of those.

 

[Citydude]

I'm finishing our basement by myself and just entered year 2 of the project. Granted, I work on it in the winter and take summers off but if I knew what I was doing, I'd be done by now.

My problem is that levels and I can't seem to agree and from time to time, measurements somehow manifest themselves different after cutting. My wife has nicknamed me "rework".

Summer can't come fast enough....

 

[Looking4new]

from time to time, measurements somehow manifest themselves different after cutting.

Measure twice, cut once.
I have that problem too. I usually cut too long and sneak up on the actual measurement.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Yep. Reminds me of the time I installed a hangar rod in the closet. Measured twice, cut once, and it was exactly a foot too short.

As for plumbing, I never do it any more. I go ahead a hire some other fool up front. Learned my lesson the time Sharn Jean lost her contact down the kitchen sink. No problem; remove the goose neck, retrieve the contact, replace goose neck and everyone is happy. Well....removing the goose neck, I discovered it was old and thin and I knocked a hole in it. New goose neck, no problem. Twisted too hard, collapsed part of the pipe going into the wall (old and thin also). Gave up, called plumber who was there all day, knocked hole in wall to access pipe, major project, etc. $$$$$$$$.

 

[Citydude]

Measure twice, cut once.
I have that problem too. I usually cut too long and sneak up on the actual measurement.

yep.

 

[zzvyb6]

Well at least you didn't pee in the refrigerator.

I use the back porch.

 

[Deere Dude]

Measure twice, cut once.
I have that problem too. I usually cut too long and sneak up on the actual measurement.[/QU

I can vouch for that. I had a 6'6" wall I wanted to make two small bookcases to fill. I measured 3 times to make sure.

I went into the basement and worked 3 weeks or so to make two bookcases with total width 1 inch narrower than the whole wall but wanted them different widths so I commenced to make one 2 foot wide and the other one 3'5" so I could just wedge them in. I get them up and I had a foot to spare. I made them to narrow by a foot.

And I was young then.

 

[orezok]

I never make misteaks.

Bruce

I thought I made a mistake (sp?) once... but I was wrong! :laughing::laughing::laughing: