Bad weekend

[Fixnair]

So, Saturday I'm moping the floor of my garage. I have a plastic two man kayak hanging from the ceiling on a rope & pulley system. Just finished under the kayak & stepped sideways about thread feet. All of a sudden crash! The kayak crashes to the floor. My wife runs out to see what happened. I'm standing there with a stunned look on my face. Seems as if one of the pulleys broke. Fatigue I guess.
Anyway, since she was in the garage now, I've been wanting to caution her that when she moves my tool box to be sure and lock the drawers first. So I began to demonstrate what could happen. Guess what? I wasn't paying attention and over the thing went. I never felt more dumb.
My wife had yo go get the neighbor to help me right the box. Tools all,over the floor. What a mess. I had to take a picture so we could get a good laugh when we are old. You can see the end of the kayak on the right in the pic.

 

[ClineWrench]

Well as my brother would say...smooth move ex lax. Lol

Life sure has a funny way of hitting us hard and making us laugh sometimes.

 

[Outlawmws]

This would not be your day to go buy lottery tickets!

 

[Plombob]

Look at it this way. You stepped aside just before a kayak planted itself on your skull. A good ending, I'd say.

 

[ZRX61]

Anyway, since she was in the garage now, I've been wanting to caution her that when she moves my tool box to be sure and lock the drawers first.

Why the hell would she be moving your toolbox?

 

[BK13]

Better a laugh than a trip to the ER...

 

[bulletpruf]

Bad things happen in three's! Better make sure you medical insurance is paid up!

 

[4xdog]

I feel your pain.

No, really, I do! I had what looks like the same box fall over last year onto my Triumph TR3. Luckily (?) the garage door was open and the Triumph was in neutral so the workbench crash pushed the car out with little damage.

It was a PITA to pick up, fershure. And now it is so blocked up it'll never fall forward again. Backwards, maybe!

 

[softailgarage]

I'm thinking somebody pissed off the garage gods.

 

[MN4x4]

Glad you weren't hurt!

How deep is that box? Was it top heavy, with all of your sockets in the top drawer - like mine are?



I've worried about that happening...


On the bright side, now is a perfect time to clean up the drawers and do any rearranging you've considered?!

 

[Junkman]

Fill the bottom drawer of the box with all the junk tools that you can find, and the fix it so it can't open. You just need more ballast in the bottom, like a sailboat.

 

[Notgrownup]

Well at least the demonstration worked.

 

[dlcwent]

Wow.. and I was upset that the sun wasn't shining on Saturday. Silly me. Glad you weren't under either one of those "crashing" objects.

 

[davethorik]

sorry to hear that, earlier this year one of my coworkers quit. my boss was loading his toolbox into the back of his truck when he tilted the forks down a little bit and all the drawers popped open because it wasn't locked. Of course the drawers were facing forward so it dumped his tools half in the bed of his truck and half on the loading dock. Then it started to rain.

Moral of the story? Lock your box when you move it.

 

[franzdom]

I would be moping in the garage too if that happened!

 

[north]

I'm going to be a good friend here and laugh with you.

 

[jeremy v]

I think the kayak falling probably gave you a quick burst of adrenaline which in turn made you stronger and a bit more forceful with the tool chest than you would have been under normal adrenaline-free circumstances.

 

[bcradio]

All uphill from there hopefully

 

[340wedge]

I'm glad nothing hit the Bug eye!!

 

[McFarmer]

That's why I put my paper towels on the back side.

 

[PelicanPines]

Gives you a chance to clean your tools as you put them all away.

If any of my box(s) fell over... I would so have to clean up my puke as well.

 

[allinon72]

I'm thinking somebody pissed off the garage gods.

Perhaps thread starter did not purchase anything on Epstein's Day and this is the repercussion.

 

[JohnX14]

I'll be she will remember to lock the drawers. Great demo.

 

[PKile]

I'm glad nothing hit the Bug eye!!

Oh No! Now you've done it...you called a TR3 a Bugeye!!! You have angered the almighty Stanpart god with a reference to the false god MOWOG. No pious Triumph owner would ever speak the name of Austin Healey.

Your car will now be cursed with a Lucas module, which will cause random intermittent electrical failures that are untraceable.

Cheers,
Sir Kile of Malfunction Junction

 

[Charles (in GA)]

One reason I like my old Craftsman boxes with the regular slides. Those drawers are NOT coming open on their own. I have a Proto box at work with roller slides and you cannot touch it without the drawers opening up.

Charles

 

[Bill Bowman]

I had a shop teacher showing us how to safely cut a board on the table saw, and proceeded to whack off his index finger. Sorry your day didn't go well. Bill

 

[Alchymist]

Must be the day - wife went out to pick blackberries under some tall walnut trees. Just as she started back to the house, a dead branch fell out of one of the trees right beside her. Sent her up town to buy a lottery ticket.

 

[NorCalWrenchin]

Ouch.. toolboxes falling over is the worst! Glad you weren't hurt. At least you had a lot of good time for reflection while you were on your hands and knees picking up your stuff!

 

[BikerDad]

The Dishonorable Lout, Mr. Murphy, takes a special delight in tossing a spanner into the gears of any sort of safety demonstration.

Glad nobody was hurt.

 

[jim1987]

Looks like a husky box. Are the drawers damaged? Looks like a good excuse to buy a new box.

Still, why does the woman need to move the box?

 

[Crimson558]

Should've played it off like you meant to do that so she could see how dangerous it is for her to move your box. Either way she probably won't lay a hand on it again after witnessing that!

 

[PFSard]

Bad misfortune. Hopefully, this is the end of it, leading to a long uptrend of good things happening in your life. Of course, I'd still be waiting for the third part of the "bad things come in three's".

 

[toomanytoyzz]

Your car will now be cursed with a Lucas module, which will cause random intermittent electrical failures that are untraceable.

That's pretty much a standard with any British made car of that era.

 

[Daniel Dudley]

I had a set of shelves fall on my all original, 10,000 mile convertible once.

I got to repaint the entire car. It came out very nice, but it was never original again.

 

[Fixnair]

Thanks for all the replies and other stories. I had heard of this very thing happening here on Garage Journal but never thought it would happen to me.
The drawers were not damaged at all. I was kind of surprised about that. The two bottom drawers were the heaviest but all came open while I was looking at my wife and explaining what could happen.

 

[PT Doc]

More weight in the the bottom is a good idea.

 

[jakemac]

..................... I had heard of this very thing happening ................ but never thought it would happen to me.
.................................

Isn't this how letters to the Penthouse Forum start ?

 

[Andy Griffith]

The two bottom drawers were the heaviest but all came open while I was looking at my wife and explaining what could happen.

Might be an upside to all this (besides not being crushed by a kayak).

Your wife will likely now go out of her way to stay clear of you when you are working in the garage, thus you will have much uninterrupted garage time for many years to come. In addition she will probably never complain about not being able to park her car in the garage.

 

[340wedge]

Oh No! Now you've done it...you called a TR3 a Bugeye!!! You have angered the almighty Stanpart god with a reference to the false god MOWOG. No pious Triumph owner would ever speak the name of Austin Healey.

Your car will now be cursed with a Lucas module, which will cause random intermittent electrical failures that are untraceable.

Cheers,
Sir Kile of Malfunction Junction

Sorry,

All I know is all American Musclecars, we feel the same way when someone calls a Plymouth Duster a Chevy Nova

 

[Tellingthem]

Oh No! Now you've done it...you called a TR3 a Bugeye!!! You have angered the almighty Stanpart god with a reference to the false god MOWOG. No pious Triumph owner would ever speak the name of Austin Healey.

Your car will now be cursed with a Lucas module, which will cause random intermittent electrical failures that are untraceable.

Cheers,
Sir Kile of Malfunction Junction