Bodge JobsIf you can't fix it with a hammer and a roll of duck tape, it's not worth fixing at all, my old mate said minutes before that nasty business with the hammer and a roll of duck tape. Tell us of McGyver-like repairs and whether they were a brilliant success or a health and safety nightmare.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 11:58)
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My parents had one of those huge impressive oak dressers in the front room, which as it turned out didn't have the top half screwed down.So when I was about 4 and decided to climb up it to retrieve something from a high shelf, I pulled the whole top half down on myself.
The shelving tipped forward, smashing all the neatly-arranged crockery and landing face-up on the floor, somehow missing me. I remember everything doing dark as it flew overhead!
So yup, it's always worth securing climbable furniture where there are lively toddlers.
I also screwed chains to the lounge windows of our first-floor flat to stop them opening far, after finding our first child hanging out of one. That was a bit of a stomach-churner.
(, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 8:08, 1 reply)
You are Buster Keaton, and I claim my five pounds.www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyRhRR5Iu4
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Hahah, that's certainly how my mother saw me!She had to go next door for our neighbour to calm her down with a cup of tea with whisky in.
Keaton did that stunt with a real house-front because a fake one would buckle under the strain and be more dangerous.
The top half of the dresser didn't touch me as it toppled over, presumably because I wasn't even as tall as the lower half so it fell past me.
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