honey-do list

Jan 09, 2005 6 Replies

Working through the honey-do list this summer and going really well for once. SWMBO asks for a few dividers to be put in a drawer for large implements to be seperated - no problem.



I measure twice, cut once, iron on the tape. remove the drawer face, nail in place nice and square and even. Beautiful, 15 minute job.



I bring it inside after replacing the face and it doesn't fit! Hmm, must've moved the face somehow (it was located by 4 screws. So I play and play, trying to get this sucker back where it came from.



Finally, after 20 minutes, I get this little voice in my head saying "go on, ask her", so I do. "Ahh, honey, is this the drawer that came from this position?"



"No, I wanted the second drawer in the third slot so I moved it while you were doing the dividers." She looks at me for a minute, then says "is that why they're numbered at the back?



Doh!


LSHMBB!! (L.aughing S.o H.ard M.y B.elly B.ounces)

Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 6:50am (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@nothanks.com (Groggy) says: She looks at me for a minute, then says "is that why they're numbered at the back?

She wasn't a 2d Lieutenant in another life, was she?

JOAT Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- =A0Dale Carnegie

She wasn't a 2d Lieutenant in another life, was she?

2nd Looie = Ensign, right? 1st Looie = Lieutenant J.G. Post Korea, pre 'Nam, Steelworker CPO tells me . . .Seabees are building concrete ammo bunkers, *new* Ensign or JG comes aboard, first day he sees the Steelworkers torching excess re-bar off the top of the walls while Builders are stripping forms down below, getting some sparks. Newbie has a fit, stops job. Three senior CPO's spend several weeks rotating keeping him *occupied* while the two not busy with that see that the job gets back on schedule.

Sun, Jan 9, 2005, 4:20pm snipped-for-privacy@madbbs.com (Norman=A0D.=A0Crow) asks:

2nd Looie =3D Ensign, right? 1st Looie =3D Lieutenant J.G.

Yup.

The "right" way for a 2LT to raise a flagpole. Say, "Sergeant, raise that flagpole", and then walk away.

JOAT Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- =A0Dale Carnegie

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