My dad.
Not the best at DIY jobs. We live on a farm. In Ireland. He is pretty much what you imagine an old-time Irish Farmer to be like. Named Paddy, fairly stubborn, and not the brightest. The following is just a fraction of the many DIY disasters he has had:

Accidentally stepping on an upturned nail after working on building a shed. It went straight through the foot.

Crashing the tractor into a single standing tree only a few feet away from him,while trying to move some bales of hay.

Breaking the car windscreen when carrying a lamb in the passenger seat. It got panicky and head butted the windscreen. He ended up putting a crack in the replacement screen 2 weeks later.

Accidentally starting a large fire when burning some rubbish. Using copious amounts of petrol.

When about to work on breaking down a wall, he put a hole in the opposite sided one, after letting go of a sledgehammer mid-swing.

Another time, him and his brother wanted to build a fence for a field. It was to be approximately 100 yards long, and wasn’t going to take very long. So they decided to do it first thing in the morning.
They wake at about 9am.
Have the breakfast and are out at the field by about 10.
First post is put in, when a friend of my dad’s is walking by.
They go over and talk.
11.30, they go back to work.
Then their mother calls them and tells them to go down to the shops to get some meat for the dinner.
They’re back about 12. They then decide it’s best to wait until after dinner to get back to work on the fence.
2pm, they’re back out. Then another friend drives by
3.30, they get a call that some sheep have escaped a field and need to be put back.
By 5pm, it’s getting dark, so they decide to wait until the next day.

So out of a whole day’s work, to get a job that would take only a few hours to get done, they managed to get one singular post erected. It was another 4 days before they went back to building the fence.


He really is an endless source of amusement.
(Zigmund can't think of anything good., Fri 4 Apr 2008, 17:12, Reply)