Goat Day #27: Nobody to blame but myself
9I consider myself a fairly self sufficient human being. There’s nothing that an adult should be able to do to care for themselves that I don’t know how to do. However, my wife often jokes that without her, I’d be a mess. That I’d never know where anything is, that I’d starve, never have any clean clothes, or that I’d burn the house down.
Yesterday, when she wasn’t home and I was watching the kids and cooking, I gave her some ammunition. Something to look back on and for her to say “I told you so”.
This is was a plastic cutting board. In a moment of derp, I turned the wrong burner on. I caught it quickly, even before it started to smell, but it was still too late. Oooooops. It happens to everybody (at least I’d like to think). When she does it, it’s because she’s tired from doing a bunch of other stuff. When I do it, it’s because I’m a fool.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So, what’s a derp moment that you can share to make me feel like I’m not alone?
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Not a chance in hell. You’re in this solo, bro.
@mike808 I guess you can just call me Han then.
I (almost) always forget to wear gloves before doing pretty much everything I SHOULD wear gloves for EXCEPT, since losing a bit of finger, when using the mandoline. Yesterday, despite reminding myself to put on some gloves before going out to haul some brush, I figured I’d just quickly haul some of the brush then run in and put the laundry in the dryer, thus saving myself some time later.
I actually only wound up with one small splinter in my hand, but scratched up my forearm a fair bit. It could have been worse, so I figure I’m ahead of the game, and plan to keep a pair of gloves around me at all times. I am good at planning. Execution, I’m still working on!
I used to say the same to my ex husband…but he would never watch the kids while I was gone nor would he even attempt to make a meal. I’d seen him wait 10 hrs for me to get home and he’d say… thank God you’re home… I"m starving. He didn’t even know how to make himself a sandwich. Had he ever melted a cutting board attempting to make a meal while watching the kids… I’d have swooned.
(But… in keeping with the thread, in the past I’ve melted a few things on the stove that shouldn’t have been there myself)
@lseeber My dad is the same way. He would cook if a grill was involved, but aside from that he left everything to my mom house wise. He’d often complain about the food in the lunches she packed for his work, but refused to offer up any suggestions or pack it for himself.
I am a “derp” moment.
We had a pipe freeze in our kitchen wall leading to an outside hose bib so we decided we needed a cutoff valve for winter. We didn’t want an ugly box (even covered) on the kitchen wall so we decided to put it under the kitchen sink.
After a couple hours of painfully cutting out the back of the sink cabinet and the drywall behind it, then more
hours of not being able to get the valve to solder on because we could not stop the incoming water completely (I didn’t know the wonderful bread trick*)
I tried to get a cap on the pipe down there deep under the back of the sink, in the wall, with a fiberglass flame shield to prevent catching the studs on fire, and I got up with a lit Bernzomatic torch. The flame was aimed right at our kitchen countertop by the sink. Formica is not flame nor particularly heat resistant.
$700 for a plumber to come out and put a valve in. We still have the dead spot in the countertop until we redo the kitchen.
@duodec the other option is to just use a Sharkbite fitting. No worries about setting anything on fire. As long as the instructions are followed, they work really well. Better than someone that really doesn’t have any experience soldering at all.
I suppose I could mention the time I was chiseling ice out of the office fridge’s freezer “compartment” using a hammer and a screwdriver. But you already know where this is leading, so I’ll leave it at that.