Loaning out tools. I always say I’ll never do it until someone asks, then I do it anyways.
I loaned out my drain snake to my best buddy in the whole world about 3 mos. ago. He brought it back looking as clean and new as the day it was born. So I got it out to use today and the first couple of feet were kinked up beyond any possible use or repair.
Now it’s a 46 foot snake instead of 50.
A few years back, I loaned out my lawnmower. I handed the guy my can of fuel and told him he needs to buy oil.
I get back a lawnmower that wont start.
I check the fuel, lots of it. Sit there very confused for a while. Then I notice the oil hasn’t been opened. I figure he didn’t add oil to the fuel and sure enough he fucked the engine.
I never quite understood what he thought he was buying oil for.
You just throw it in there and let it do its thing.
Just like food, right?
Over the ear noise cancelling headphones to the rescue. We have a compulsive whistler in our office, and a lady with a voice similar to hillary clinton.
It would be the best ~$1k you ever spent to get it taken down. We had 3 large trees (red oak and 2 maples, not silver maples) taken down for $2700 by a licensed/insured company. My GF and I were entertained for the entire weekend. Gotta love “squirrel” the guy small and wiry enough to jimmy up the tree and do the real mans work.
That’s a pretty decent price. I’d assume that it went well since your post wasn’t “You know what pisses me off? Dips shits with chainsaws!”.
It was about 6-7 hrs of 5 guys on site for 2 days. I did the math on the time, cost of labor and felt pretty well taken care of. They bumped the house once with a 4-5" branch (no damage) and left several gouges in the lawn and some sadust, but in general very happy. I also had the stumps ground, so yea I was happy with the price. In fact, I think I should leave them a review. I need to balance out my Yelp karma after dinging a auto shop.
Mud is pissing me off. And people who don’t take their boots off before getting into the site trailer.
Sitting on a well near Pecos. Two mile horizontal. We’ve had some amazing rain for two weeks. This is the desert. Not a lot of drainage set up. So it’s currently a swamp.
Somehow no one taught these idiots to take off their boots, with caked-on mud, before walking into the chow hall, office, pickup, or whatever.
It’s fucking everywhere.
If I had more ambition this could make a good edited Anakin meme.
Mis timed sitting up while scooting out from under a machine on my back. Scorched my forehead on a hot muffler! The profanity was epic!
That’s actually quite good. The ding, eh. The sawdust and divots, meh. The stumps included- fuckin’ A, that makes it good.
I have a few stumps to grind at some point as sort of a paid favor for a friend thing, but I’m apprehensive about getting back into tree work in general. I can probably get the machine and a truck for no cost, but it will likely involve jumping in on a few jobs too. One hand washes the other kind of thing.
I honestly don’t know if I still have the spine and balls for it.
The Cicadas are going to be keeping that company in business for the next 17 years. The damage they’re doing now will keep those guys rolling in work lol.
They love the inside of silver maple and cherry. One guy used to scoop the grubs out of the hole in the middle before we ground the stump. Bass would kill those suckers!
I hate it when people come out with the classic ‘Dude, some things you just don’t do!’ without offering any proper explanation as to why that’s suposedly the case!
I’ve always been the type to question mostly anything and this always seemed like such utter horseshit to me, even as a kid. As I get older, it seems to just be an excuse to not try something new or improve something. I’m with you on this one
Global warming smog staining the penguins gray?
They are lovely? Why would they annoy anyone lol! 
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When a buddy asks for a ‘real program’ (he’s an avid self programmer/chase the pump) so I put all of his numbers and workouts together for him for SGSS (because, “…I want to push myself.”) get him all lined out, he’s dabbled with it a couple times, just fuckin around, comes in this morning and says, “I greatly underestimated all my maxes, I had to bump everything up on the 3 x 8 week (this is week 1) I just didn’t feel like I was working.” Dude…it’s the first workout, what the actual fuck?! I told him, well it’s supposed to start out manageable, look at the end numbers! “Yeah, I may screw myself in the end, but whatever.” Man…that pissed me off. It isn’t my programming, and it isn’t my athlete, but don’t ask me to do leg work for you and then literally throw it out the first week
It sounds like he needs the talk.
