Is my garage a time warp?

[Theo911]

Seriously, I'll go out the the garage after the girls are in bed at 8:30 ish and before I know it it's midnight! It doesn't matter what I'm working on--I just crank up some music and get busy working on something. Time flies and I think of more things I need to do and nothing ever gets completed it seems. Maybe its like dog time or something. I could kill a full day without trying and it would feel like 2hrs.

 

[daveroy]

I have the same issue, unless I'm interrupted every 5 minutes... then it takes forever to get anything done!

 

[CoconutPete]

It happens to me too.

"Honey, I'm running outside for a few minutes"

....

"Honey, do you want dinner? You've been out here for an hour and a half"

 

[Falcon67]

Works the same way here, exactly. I could spend a week out there and it'd be "whadda mean it's Friday already?"

>"Honey, I'm running outside for a few minutes"

My wife set the house/shop alarm to voice alert on the shop motion detectors so she knows I'm out there and moving around.

 

[CoconutPete]

Reminds me of my grandparents....

My grandparents bought the top floor of this old security company building and it came with this GIGANTIC basement where he had his workshop. My grandma got tired of running down all the stairs to get him so they dropped a wire down an old unused chimney and hooked up an intercom. I remember so vividly from my childhood hearing ""scratch, beeep, Lunch is ready, scratch, Beep"

 

[pain]

That happens to me all the time. My wife has learned to come out there and let me know what time it is, otherwise I would never return from my FORTRESS of SOLITUDE

 

[1930artdeco]

Same at my place...but I come out so relaxed.

Mike

 

[GN4WHLN]

Me too... before I know it it's midnight. It happens most often on warm summer nights.

 

[crewchief888]

happens to me a lot, i loose track of time when i'm in the garage.

most of the time i'm just "wasting time", not really doing anything, especially if i'm "working" on my s-10 trail truck.

it was really a problem when we were racing, i'd come home from work around 5pm, head out to the race shop, (30 min drive), next thing i know it's 3 am, home around 4, up at 5:30 to get to work on time...
race weekend were soooooooo nice, i actually got more sleep at the track

 

[ddawg16]

It means your normal (by our standards).........

If it makes you feel any better...my wife will usually be upstairs above me in her art space....we listen to the same music...and usually drink the same beer or wine....

I won't mention what sometimes happens later in the night....

 

[BHR4CE1]

I won't mention what sometimes happens later in the night....

You DAWG!!!!!!


PS: Pics or it didn't happen!

 

[jfish]

so funny, it echoes my garage exactly,

last week, the wife and the kids were gone for 3 days. every evening after work I would end up in my garage and finally realize it was midnight seemingly minuets later.

 

[tskills10]

I have the same issues in my garage. Like what was said earlier, you're normal by our standards.

 

[Tarheelgarage]

I have a similair problem with loosing track of time in the shop but it is typically caused by drunkness and passing out in the shop chair until I get sober enough to either continue working or stagger inside to the bed...

 

[Murphy4570]

I know I've been working too late when it starts getting light outside. That has happened more than once.

 

[ddawg16]

You DAWG!!!!!!


PS: Pics or it didn't happen!

Like.....who would be taking pictures at that moment? Oh well....guess you will just have to take my word for it....

 

[RivennHewn]

Life starts after the wife and kids go to bed.

 

[Dan_inthewind]

I would think your garage is filling all of the requirments you had in mind when you built or bought it!

 

[Jarhead0408]

Same here. Go out for 5 minutes and next thing I know it's 10 to midnight!

 

[BHR4CE1]

who would be taking pictures at that moment?

My close friends call me TRIPOD!

 

[djjsr]

It's a fact. Time speeds up when you're in the garage. Time slows down when you're in the dentist chair.

Because most of us spend too much time in the garage is the reason we don't live longer. That's why women generally live longer than men.

I could be wrong.

 

[Shopshirt Mofo]

My wife comes out and says it's about time to wrap it up

 

[Doxhog]

Working in the garage/shop is my "meditation". It helps clear my mind.

 

[kidney]

There have been times I've strolled into work with dirt on my nose and my cologne for the day is a mix of gear oil and gasoline.

 

[JasonW]

What's all this focus on the garage? Seems to me from the time we were little, anytime we got to play with our 'toys' (as the ladies would say) all sense of time was lost. Now I'm simply well practiced and my toys are bigger.

 

[onething]

I have several clocks in my garage and shop. I look up occassionally shrug and go back to what I'm doing.
Same thing happens in GJ, though.