Very unfit
Many years ago, before the kids were born obviously, I had the idea of making a MAME machine - I didn't realise that there was quite an 'underground movement' of people doing the same and thought I was quite original.

Anyway, the idea had been floating around my head for a few months, and one Saturday morning I thought "fuck it, I'm just going to make it today".

So I drive to the hardware shop, buy some large sheets of MDF and chipboard, nails etc... and get home. Went into the garage and started cutting out the shapes I wanted - I only had a jigsaw and a handsaw as tools (completely the wrong tools it would seem).

I made a frame out of lumps of 2x2 that I had, and these I cut by hand. After cutting the first few I realised I was getting hotter and hotter. T-Shirt comes off etc... but still by about the 4th bit (and let's remember this was only 2x2, it's not really that hard to cut through with a wood saw) I was all but ready to collapse.

Still, it was getting hotter and hotter, to the point where I thought to myself, "I'd better give up drinking and smoking", when I heard a shout of "Oi, don't you ever put the kettle on then?" from above.

I'd completely forgotten about the chap who I'd booked to come and hot-tar the garage roof.

All the while I was in there he was plastering steaming hot tar all over the show!

Never did give up the fags and booze.
(dchurch bah, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 13:36, Reply)