On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 15:18 -0700, Alistair Bell wrote: > paint it a brightish colour, that way when you stub your toe on it you > can feel doubly stupid for not seeing it. Safety Yellow, maybe. I need little help feeling doubly, or singly, stupid. Even with NVC activities, Mrs Squirrel can be counted on to point out when my Stupidity Index surpasses my Competence Index.* Earlier this week, the household sink's garbage disposer packed up. Sounded like it had chewed a piece of metal, and it would not budge. "It's a goner," I said. Purchased a new disposer. Plumber guy came over, peered into the thing's maw with a flashlight, probed into it with a magnetic retriever and fished out a screw. A #8 X 1/2'' pan Phillips sheet metal screw in standard steel with a black finish. "There's your problem," he said. Fired up the disposer which ran as sweetly as a $12,000 turntable on air bearings. Mrs Squirrel looked at me. I felt somewhat cretinish. I have no idea where that screw came from, or how it got close enough to the kitchen sink to fall in. But I am 99 and 44/100th% sure that the screw wasn't part of the disposer. I know it came from.me. I mean, how many women typically wander about with loose #8 X 1/2'' pan Phillips sheet metal screw in standard steel with a black finish? I did it and I are a nitwit.
============== * Not that she's a nag -- far from it -- she's just perceptive. I vowed to her when I married her that I would count on her to inform me when my behavior (or behaviour, for those north of the 49th parallel) is stupid. She does not let me down. -- RJS |
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