It’s always the plumbing that makes for the late night trips too. Missing a piece of wood or something electrical, and it’s fine. You can fix it tomorrow. But busted a pipe and have water cut off to the house until it’s fixed? That’s when you make a late night run to wherever is still open.
When I went to my first rodeo they had a long delay because the bull refused to exit the arena. I had to say to strangers, “This is literally my first rodeo, is this normal?” Got a lot of laughs. It is apparently not normal.
Ah, I remember getting the stairs redone. They had 1990s vinyl on them, and we wanted non- slip carpet. I was smart enough not to do the carpeting myself, but surely I could strip it?
Turns out the vinyl was attached with pure fucking magic, and the nothing short of xenomorph blood was getting that shit off, apart from hard labour. So after 2 days of violence, I find out that they can’t actually glue carpet to paint. They used to be able to, but the modern glue puts not killing the user over being convenient for me, which is fair. This wasn’t true for the previous glue, which I had to burn and scrape off.
Unfortunately, unlike the vinyl, the paint too was very high quality. And thick enough to serve as a a staircase by itself, so after using some expensive goopy enzymatic paint stripper, and some good old fashioned harsh chemicals, I ended up sanding away the remaining paint over the next week.
It’s been two years, and I think I finally vacuumed up the last dust.
Chiming in from Germany where stores close at 8 pm the latest. If I entered a home depot like store after 7 pm on a Saturday (you know, Sunday is for Church so no way any store is open) the employees would be killing me with their glace. So, I guess if you plan to emigrate and providing your childhood experience to your kids is important to you, Germany isn’t the right destination.
My job where we run a bunch of programs that are actually VB style interfaces with an excel backend loading data from a huge database… Opening the two that we need for everyday tasks uses 10gigs of ram…
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