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06-26-2022, 09:46 AM | #26 |
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Re: I'm going to blow up my garage
This reminds me of an old comic strip where someone is looking for their keys, which are laying on the kitchen table. When the person walks into the kitchen, they quickly morph into the salt and pepper shakers. It feels that way sometimes around here, as in, "I know I just looked there!".
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06-26-2022, 12:40 PM | #27 |
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Re: I'm going to blow up my garage
Going in the other direction, I have occasionally found tools I never used.
I was using the hobby shop on base and the policy was that they would unlock and inventory the tool locker in your bay when you signed in, inventory and lock when you left. I got home after checking out and was checking my oil and found a 9/16 deep well socket. No idea where it came from. Same thing with a set of needle nose pliers a while later. I have spent 5 minutes or so looking for my car keys, with them in my hand the whole time. More than once. |
06-26-2022, 12:52 PM | #28 |
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If anyone is looking for their sunglasses they are up on your head
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06-26-2022, 09:20 PM | #29 | |
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It's been a slow go, but I've been spending a few hours each time I'm down there unpacking boxes and organizing as I go. Each toolbox or drawer gets labeled with exactly what's inside. My goal is to be able to send my wife or daughters outside and have them grab a tool I need without having to walk away from the task at hand myself. |
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06-28-2022, 06:10 AM | #30 |
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If I can't find it I go to my sons , he never returns anything , that reminds me he has my jigsaw.
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06-28-2022, 06:43 AM | #31 |
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Ok, now I know I have a ghost in my house messing with me. Before bed last night I cut out a Benadryl capsule I was going to take to help me sleep better. When I pushed it out it flew into the sink and bounced back out. I look all around the vanity, not there. So I'm down on the floor looking. I lift the rug, look all over, no pill. Must have flown out the window or maybe up onto the ceiling. I never looked there.! OK, I'll cut another one out.
I get up this morning, go in the bathroom, sit down (heard enough yet? ), and there it is on the rug. A bright deep pink Benadryl capsule on a pale green rug. How do these things happen??
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06-28-2022, 07:02 AM | #32 |
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I've discovered a sure fire way to find anything.....go buy another one....as soon as you do, the old one will pop right up...
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06-28-2022, 08:06 AM | #33 | |
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Last year I bought a watering can for the flowers. I hardly ever use it. Mostly got it for when I don't feel like dragging the hose to the far upper corner for a few plants. It sits by the cellar door where the hose comes out. Been there since Spring, only used it once. Well, Sunday I went to get it and it wasn't there. Where else could it be? I start my hunt. I look everywhere, every possible place, nowhere. I gave up the hunt. Yesterday, I was gathering things for a job. I have a rack I keep all my scaffold and ladders on near the edge of the property. On the far side is my poor old 4x8 trailer overladen with rears that I built a cover for and I store my cap on top of that. There's enough room between to sneak back behind the trailer up under a blue spruce tree. The fence is on the other side. So there's this one little area back in there under the spruce. There is the bucket on the back of the trailer. I forgot there was a fern coming up in the grass I pulled up with all the roots and I had decided to plant it back in there. Then, totally forgot. only watered it once but it seems to be taking!!
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06-28-2022, 10:25 AM | #34 | |
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That is part of the reason I always hated doing installs. Since I started working in the cabinet shop, I have always been an "inside" guy, either building cabinets themselves or later moving up to bigger custom pieces. They always have guys who were specifically installers.
Early on, I would get sent out to help, usually only a day or two. So, I had to be prepared to go out too. I had several bags that I kept ready, just under the bench waiting. There is some overlap, but not a lot. All that was usually needed was throwing in a cordless drill and grab the other bags. This means lots of tools left behind of course, you can't drag everything. The part that sucks is when you are out on a job and need something that you don't have. I'm not too concerned, I will just go buy one. The most annoying of all is when you actually already have one, but it's back in the shop. This happened to me more than once. Two different times I bought a fairly expensive tool, that I already had, but it was 20 miles away. Fortunately, over the years it has become more valuable to keep me in the shop and after the fire destroyed everything, I didn't even replace my "to go" stuff.
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07-01-2022, 09:58 PM | #35 |
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That's me!!! I guess I'm not the only one with 2 or 3 of everything I need. Can a man ever have too many of one tool?
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07-01-2022, 11:08 PM | #36 | |
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I don't think so Especially, If your are always looking for it. I have a 4-way lug wrench for my Tractor wheels. It has 1" 1/16 and 3 other sizes I only use it about ??????????????? once or twice every 2 years. I spend (Off and On ) 2 hours tonight looking for it Guess what ?? I found It
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07-02-2022, 02:19 AM | #37 | |
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07-02-2022, 05:42 AM | #38 | |
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I know where is. The last place you sit it down and when you find it you will quit looking
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07-02-2022, 05:53 AM | #39 |
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I don't have such a bad problem finding things. Oh, that does happen and it does happen often. But my worse problem is remembering what I was looking for!
and there's a silver lining to this cloud. How many times have you gone through this "can't find it" search and found a thing you couldn't find earlier. Or better yet, found a thing you forgot you had?? Gotta find that silver lining somewhere! I'll have to make another round I guess
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07-02-2022, 08:58 AM | #40 | |
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As I said before, I generally don't lose things because they have a place. The biggest problem with that is when it does happen. WTH? Where did it go? How did it go?
Last Saturday, I went to visit my mom. She lives about 20 miles away, so it's no big deal, but not 5 minutes away to just "stop by whenever" either. I was there for several hours, cooked out, talked about stuff, etc. Then head home in the early evening, intending to do some grocery shopping on the way. Reflexively reaching for my wallet as I drove. I carry a mini wallet, that is basically the size of a credit card and about 3/8" thick, in my front pocket. It wasn't there, instant panic/freak-out. I have dropped it before, while wearing these particular shorts, especially in low seating. The pockets don't slide down when sitting, so they tip up when knees are higher than my hips. I usually notice it though. First thought, call her and ask her to look it the couch where I was sitting. She looked there, under the dining room table, and even out on the patio.....nope, not there. Ok, well maybe I left it at home? I usually do the "pat down" for keys, wallet, phone, etc. when leaving, but it is possible I didn't? I continue home, knowing exactly where it will be, assuming I left it where I know it was last. Nope! not there either, instant freak-out. I went crazy searching, even going to places that I know full-well weren't even possible. Turned over the recliner, went through the last load of laundry, everything. Then I went to the truck and searched it thoroughly, still nothing. I hadn't been anywhere else, so it had to be in my house....or hers. I called her back and she searched again, this time actually pulling the cushions off and running her hands around the edges. There it was! Now I have to make that drive again, but the freak-out was over.
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07-02-2022, 10:13 AM | #41 |
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I gotta fess up again. Some years ago I needed my mirror on a telescoping stick. I knew I had one but had rarely used it and the one time I really needed it, I could not find it. I searched the shop over several times and nada. I accused my daughter of taking it and not putting it back cause she is the only other one to need a tool. I knew the tool chest drawer I kept it in and I didn't see it. Well one day she came in and I asked her about it to which she said she had not used it. I described it being a small rectangular mirror head on a stick and while I was busy doing something she quietly pulled every drawer of the chest and turned around and said "is this what you are looking for"? Well damn! It was right there in the drawer I said it should be and the mirror is round, not rectangular. Egg all over my face.
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I usually find something that I can't find when I'm looking for something else. All of a sudden there it is.
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Boog, I can relate to the shape, or even color, of something making it "invisible". When you are so concentrated on a specific feature, the actual piece can evade you because you are looking for the wrong thing.
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07-02-2022, 07:15 PM | #45 |
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I had a clipper and lost it, got another, lost it etc… Did a little cleaning now I have these and a place I keep them. I know there are more out there I’ll be adding to my collection, eventually haha!
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Just today I was installing a window a/c in my bedroom. It's in the window on the side where I have my climate controlled parts stash. I had to move some things and I uncovered a small box for a part I bought from another member who knows how long ago. I open it up and am pleasantly surprised to see two cherry 67/68 GMC horn buttons. Christmas all over again!
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07-02-2022, 10:14 PM | #48 |
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Labels, you guys! When I was flipping Chevy Vegas, I had shelves in the shed with boxes labeled, "Starters and Alternators", "Clutches", and "Miscellaneous", etc. We all know that anything fits in the "miscellaneous" box, don't we?
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I find that nail clippers are one of the most elusive things on the face of the earth. Right up there with the 10 mm socket and Sasquatch.
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For the pen problem, I bought a bag of Bic pens and put them in a kitchen drawer, since I used to take calls on the kitchen wall phone. One by one they'd walk away till there was an empty bag. Ok, that didn't go well. I found a hiding place in the kitchen and I got to use those until the ink was gone
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