DIY disastersI just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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PaintYou know that old story where some dickhead starts paint a floor and ends up in the far corner of the room with the whole floor painted and he's unable to get out?
I was that dickhead.
But, being me, I had to make it worse. So I took my shoes and socks off and made a dash for the door reasoning that I could paint over my foot marks when the floor had dried. I also decided to run on the tips of my toes and use big strides to minimise the damage.
First stride, lands OK and the momentum swung me into my second stride which touched the floor and went into an immediate skid which ended up with me crashing into a wall, bouncing off, and rolling all over my freshly painted floor.
I'm a great ideas man but my implementation lets me down.....
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 6 Apr 2008, 14:06,
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At which pointdid you discover you had painted yourself into a corner?
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 6 Apr 2008, 17:03,
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In the style,of Mr Bean, or Frank Spencer?
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Click!I'm going to chuckle about that for days now!
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I'dmanaged to pretty much finish the whole floor. I had an MP3 player on and was lost in my own little world before I found out what I'd done...
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 1:52,
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...Even if your plan'd worked, you'd still have been stuck trying to get to the bathroom to wash your painty feet. Better, surely, to keep your shoes on, remove them as you leave the room, and let the paint dry on your soles?
Hindsight, eh? I luvvit.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 10:01,
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ActuallyI don't know why I decided to take off my socks and shoes. Probably didn't want to get paint on them.
Shoes I can understand, but the socks I could have just slung.
Meh.
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 10:21,
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You're a braver man than I - I would have just sat sobbing in the corner until either (1) found or (2) the paint had dried!
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Far Out Slave last ate at, Mon 7 Apr 2008, 14:28,
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