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OctaneMotorsports

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Well, some time during the course of the day while I was at work yesterday my mom got a bright idea and decided that she was going to install some shelving in my garage. So, apparently she took apart some sort of old shelving unit to get the material. She then went to the hardware store and picked up a bunch of L-brackets and a bag of friggin' deck screws. I get home, open up the garage...wow. She installed probably 8-10 shelves scattered in random places in the garage with zero thought put into them. None of them are even remotely level, and she screwed them into DRYWALL with DECK SCREWS without using a STUD FINDER. Just, straight into the drywall...and that was just the L-brackets. She then used the deck screws (maybe 2.5" long) to attatch the shelf onto the L-bracket, straight through the bottom up to the top. That's right, there was actually about 2" of sharp deck screw sticking up through the shelf. I give her credit for trying, but damn...where is the common sense in these women?
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This was not a random act, I've seen this before. Probably been complaining about needing shelves for a while now and decided to make somthing happen. My Mom always threatens my Dad this way.
 
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Wow. My mom know better than to try something like that.

... and yes, pictures needed.
 
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my mom has seen the inside of my garage. and thats the way it will stay. i might let her in once more, just long enough to get in the car and drive out.
 
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I guess I am pretty lucky. My Mom builds some heavy duty stuff. She is pretty handy with a miter saw and hammer.

She can mud a wall with the best of them too. I get her over here at my place (fixer upper) to help when we fix the walls. :thumbup:

Our problem is we **** heads on how we will do something. Either way will work we just go about it different ways.
 
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Damn, sorry to bump an old topic like this but I couldn't leave you guys hanging! LOL

Sorry about the lack of pictures, but you can understand...those shelves needed to come down at that very minute. Did I mention she loaded them with several heavy objects, including a large rubbermaid bin filled with glass vases? Yeah, it was pretty bad. Once I unloaded everything off them I went to unscrew the first of many screws on the L-brackets to remove the shelf, and of course it simply spun in it's place (I was tired okay?) So I grab the shelf, give it a pull and it ripped right out way too easily. Luckily I had a large NGK Spark Plugs banner to cover all one thousand screw holes, lol. Jeeze, was I pissed...but I give her credit for trying I guess lol.
 
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Rickster said:
This was not a random act, I've seen this before. Probably been complaining about needing shelves for a while now and decided to make somthing happen. My Mom always threatens my Dad this way.
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Yeah, it kinda sounds like the equivalent of "Gee, honey, I broke another dish when I was washing them... guess i'm just tooooo clumsy" :lol_hitti Hope you put them up the right way for her once you were done.

...dave
 
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