And Gump is still at the shop.... waiting for my Rusty package to arrive. Getting to the point that every time I go near her with a wrench, we go to the shop to de-Clay the car.
clay On 13 Aug 2007, at 09:04, Robert Rentfro wrote: > You think it's funny because we all know that each one of us has done > something like that. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mercedes- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin, work > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 7:53 AM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Virtual Pillory: Come jeer at the idiot! > > I dont know why, but I thought that story was funny > > --- > Kaleb C. Striplin > Cox Auto Trader > 730 PP Supervisor > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donald Snook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:03 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Virtual Pillory: Come jeer at the idiot! > > >> Casey wrote: >> >> >> >> "Hi, my name is Casey, and I'm an idiot." >> >> >> >> Welcome to the club Casey. I can certainly relate. It seems like >> a lot >> of the time when I do some automotive project, I make six trips to >> the >> store and usually have to correct something that I screwed up when >> I was >> fixing the previous item. I didn't work on my car this weekend, >> but I >> did some home improvement projects (we are selling our house and I >> needed to fix a few things). Here's my dumbshit story: >> >> >> >> I had to replace the bathroom faucet. Not that big of a deal, right? >> Our house was built in 1929, so it has lots of cool architectural >> details and lots of character. What that usually means is that >> modern >> day replacement items don't fit and must be retrofitted in order to >> work. We have a pedestal sink in the hall bathroom. I had to >> move the >> pedestal out of the way to get at the plastic nuts that hold the >> faucet >> in place. I had already broken one of the knobs, so I had to replace >> the faucet that day. As I am moving the pedestal out of the way, I >> twisted it and a large junk broke off in my hand. Because of the >> awkward >> position of my hands and body, my hand dropped the broken piece >> and slid >> straight down the razor sharp edge of the broken porcelain. It cut me >> between my thumb and index - badly. It immediately started bleeding. >> It was bad, but I had to finish the sink or we have no water in the >> bathroom. So, I wrapped it up as well as I could and went back to >> working on the faucet. >> >> >> >> As you can imagine using tools and twisting and torqueing >> everything in >> there, my bandage would not stay on (not that it mattered it was >> soaking >> through in less than 60 seconds). I probably should have gone to >> the ER >> and gotten it stitched, but that wouldn't be very manly, so I just >> worked through it. About 45 minutes later, I was done. It looked >> like >> someone had been murdered in our bathroom. The bathroom is black and >> white (lots of white). It looked like the restroom in a >> slaughterhouse >> when I was done. I had gone through all of the gauze bandages in my >> first aid kit and had switched to paper towels. >> >> >> >> Now, I have to figure out how to glue the pedestal back together >> or buy >> a new one. This is fairly routine. I usually hurt myself in one >> or the >> other for every home improvement project. >> >> >> >> If you ever need to clean up a lot of blood, ammonia works pretty >> well - >> smells awful, but it works. >> >> >> >> >> >> Donald H. Snook >> >> 1990 300SEL 138K (For Sale) >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
