Low Key Easter Weekend Recap
Y'all it almost happened. It seemed like it was almost a perfect carpet install. Then the dude grabbed a broom and swept all of the carpet on top, swept the floor, then swept the stairs going downstairs. Thanks for taking our clean carpet and giving it a fresh layer of unknown dust and dirt all over it. Then we looked when they left and saw a gap by the baseboard on the landing we weren't happy with and I know they had to have seen it so I fear shoe molding is in our future which we hate. The final "of course?" We had a TON left. Like enough to recarpet another set of stairs easily. Uh, why are you sending someone out to measure to give us a quote and we have enough left over to carpet another set of stairs and have enough of another piece for a big strip in front of the washer and dryer. This goes well beyond the "10% waste" they have you get. (It stretches 2/3 the length of our basement) So begins the process of trying...
I believe I was 8 or 9 years old out in California at Knott's Berry Farm and enjoying those cars that you "drive" (open, old fashioned-looking cars). I remember being so proud of myself because I was actually driving and I was sitting up tall and proud with a big smile on my face...only to discover that the cars were on a rail, therefore you couldn't have veered off if you tried. To this day I can remember feeling so deflated when I realized the car was on a track, that I sat there slumped in the driver's seat and didn't even keep my hands on the wheel at that point. It ruined my whole day after that.
ReplyDeleteI used to listen to this one DJ as a kid, I was maybe 7 or 8, and I had a small radio that had a speaker that sometimes would go bad at the most inopportune times. One day out of the blue I decided to just take the thing apart and see if I could fix it. I didn't fix it... but I also didn't totally break it. I put it all back together and it still worked, I just didn't know that the speaker needed a new solder and I was too young to realize that yet. But what I did realize was that I was not afraid to jump into anything electronic and see what I could do with it. That serves me well to this day.
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