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After the day I had yesterday

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KTJMcG

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Decided to leave all three cars alone and just do a general clean-up on my workbench.
Popped this into the DVD player and went to work:
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Got most of the pegboard organized:
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And now can see the the workbench again:
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Did get some good karma this morning. One of the neighbors about a month ago had a flat. Came down and asked if I could help him out with it. I ended up plugging it for him and being neighborly,wouldn't take anything for it. Yesterday,He saw me laying on a piece of cardboard during the attempted oil change. About an hour after I got out there this morning,He and his son showed up and dropped this off:
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Surprised the hell out of me. They went out to Harbor Freight for a few things as his son is starting woodshop this year and decided that I needed this for my efforts fixing his tire. The thing is comfortable and it'll beat the hell out of laying on the garage floor.
 
No such karma for me. I spent most of Saturday under my kids truck repairing damage from a recent rear-end accident. The car that hit him shoved his dual exhaust in and cause it to break in a couple places necessitating a near complete replacement (old and rusted). A 5.9l Dodge, it was running no muffler post cat. Kinda loud but tolerable. I slipped on a cheap Thrush turbo muffler in the process. Now the kid tells me I neutered his truck. He's pissed at me.

I spend over $600 on a new exhaust, fix his truck and I'm the bad guy. And, my back is freaking killing me now. :rant
 
"Horseplay" said:
No such karma for me. I spent most of Saturday under my kids truck repairing damage from a recent rear-end accident. The car that hit him shoved his dual exhaust in and cause it to break in a couple places necessitating a near complete replacement (old and rusted). A 5.9l Dodge, it was running no muffler post cat. Kinda loud but tolerable. I slipped on a cheap Thrush turbo muffler in the process. Now the kid tells me I neutered his truck. He's pissed at me.

I spend over $600 on a new exhaust, fix his truck and I'm the bad guy. And, my back is freaking killing me now. :rant
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Tell him he owes you $600 and if he doesn't like the sound, go pay for a new one himself! If he's old enough to drive, he's old enough to fix it himself. Stop coddling the boy.
 
"silverblueBP" said:
Tell him he owes you $600 and if he doesn't like the sound, go pay for a new one himself! If he's old enough to drive, he's old enough to fix it himself. Stop coddling the boy.
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:stu
 
"silverblueBP" said:
Tell him he owes you $600 and if he doesn't like the sound, go pay for a new one himself! If he's old enough to drive, he's old enough to fix it himself. Stop coddling the boy.
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Oh, he owes me. It gets added to the tab. At his current rate of reimbursement I might get it all back before I die. In this case, however, the other guy's insurance company will be paying this part of his bill.

Thanks for the laugh though. When I hear the term coddling I think of a mother holding her baby. My "boy" is 6'4" and 225 pounds. He starts both ways for his varsity football team. Trying to envision me "coddling" him.
 
"Horseplay" said:
Oh, he owes me. It gets added to the tab. At his current rate of reimbursement I might get it all back before I die. In this case, however, the other guy's insurance company will be paying this part of his bill.

Thanks for the laugh though. When I hear the term coddling I think of a mother holding her baby. My "boy" is 6'4" and 225 pounds. He starts both ways for his varsity football team. Trying to envision me "coddling" him.
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Metaphors are your friend.
 
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