Sound familiar?

[dkmc]

So every day that I am productive, it's a constant fight. Underlying constant challenges and games played with the cosmos.

Nuts, bolts, screws, and tools constantly slip out of my hands. A nut will magically home in perfectly on the top of my shoe, hit it like a trampoline, and spring-accelerate in a horizontal direction, heading perfectly under a bench or secluded area out of sight. Impossible acrobatics that could NEVER be a planned move on purpose.

Any type of extension cord, rope, chain, or air hose
has a built in mind of it's own, devoted to knitting a special type of ******* knot unlike any imaginable in the normal world. No matter how neat it's carefully coiled up, it WILL knot, and knit itself into an evil matrix as it's uncoiled, to be as frustrating as possible.
You have to take multiple deep breaths, smile a bit, and fight the fight, press on, and don't let Mr Murphy win the battle. At the end of the day, it's these many moments that ultimately cause fatigue to set in, and make the next day feel like I'm just 'looking for trouble' as I start in all over again.
But when a projects done, it feels like a win, and that's a good feeling for sure......

 

[Toolfool]

Amen. Getting old *****.

 

[dkmc]

Amen. Getting old *****.

Well, yea, but this has been going on since I was in my '20's

 

[Samh]

Amen. Getting old *****.

No one told me that rigor mortis starts before you die

 

[rayra]

Life's easier when you don't over-dramatize it.

 

[Slednut]

I've learned that when I drop something small the first place to look is under the toe kick of the bench.

 

[dkmc]

Life's easier when you don't over-dramatize it.

Not any of that happening in LA..........right.

 

[glentre]

Life is too short to get overly concerned or frustrated by these trivial things.

Glen at 80 with not much time left on the clock.

 

[OccupantRJ]

If I ever go on another airplane flight I am taking an air hose and a drop cord with me. If the plane begins to go down, sure as hell one of them will tangle up and snag on the atmosphere on the way down and save my life!

 

[mjeff87]

I was changing a u-joint on my rear driveshaft yesterday, got the old one out and went to slip the new one in. Pulled 2 of the caps off and ONE needle bearing flew out.....I heard it "tink" off the side of the tool chest and bounce into never-never land. I half heartedly looked for it for about 2 minutes, gave up and grabbed one from the old joint and stuffed it in, then installed the joint. I don't have time in my life to be on my hands and knees underneath my workbench, fighting the spiders and whatnot, trying to find a single needle bearing.

 

[driftpin]

So every day that I am productive, it's a constant fight. Underlying constant challenges and games played with the cosmos.

Nuts, bolts, screws, and tools constantly slip out of my hands. A nut will magically home in perfectly on the top of my shoe, hit it like a trampoline, and spring-accelerate in a horizontal direction, heading perfectly under a bench or secluded area out of sight. Impossible acrobatics that could NEVER be a planned move on purpose.

Why haven't you glued magnets to the tops of your boots? That ends this scenario. Also your calves will become more-muscular from the extra weight.

 

[Merch1]

All true and eloquently described.

 

[ezover]

Amen. Getting old *****.

Getting old is not for sissy’s

 

[gnpenning]

If you don't want to get old you can try the option..... Apparently you only get one chance at it so choose wisely!!! Learning curve on this one is short.

 

[engineer2]

I once threw down an extension cord that I wanted to uncoil. It hit my workbench stool and became so entangled I briefly considered getting the side cutters out.

It seems the laws or entanglement work everywhere except when trying to get a fish to take bait, or throw a weight bag over a tree branch.

 

[ezover]

at the fire dept the way we store rope is to shove it in a bag hand over hand and it never gets tangled, I have been meaning to try it with an extension cord but have not done it yet.

 

[upper_tanker]

About a few years ago, I began to STOP trying to catch what I drop, and START just watching it fall to see where it lands.

This has proved to be pretty helpful in my case. I wouldn't try it for babies or very expensive bottles of whiskey, though.