DIY disastersI just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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About 8 years agoI got home from college to a quiet house, to find my dad in the kitchen, sitting on the worktop, ironing the wallpaper (a charming fake tile effect, if you must know).
Fearing some kind of early onset alzheimer's or mad cow disease I asked him what he was doing.
'I saw someone on the telly using a steamer to get off the wallpaper - and then I thought! This is a steam iron!' he said, rather too proudly.
'Dad', I said, knowing the time had come. The time when I, a mere 17 year old at the time, would have to parent my parent. The time when I realised, he didn't have *all* the answers. The sad but inevitable circle of life.
'Dad.'
'It's waterproof wallpaper'.
(, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 8:40, 1 reply)
Brilliant!I'm sure the talk about this in an episode of Frasier about dads not being as brilliant as you once thought they were
*click*
(, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 22:45, closed)
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