General Jackassery

12/31/2003

Hah I’m the biggest redneck engineer of them all!

Filed under: Jackassery — Todder @ 9:38 pm

Okay so check this out! I’m straightening up the house and I decide that I want to move the table that I built for the train set to the other side of the dining room. Problem is, it’s legs are made of 2×4’s and they don’t slight well across the carpet, so if I forced the issue I’m risking causing damage to the carpet and the table itself. So what is one to do, there’s dragging it across the floor, trying to get underneath it and leverage it up with my back, or wait until someone else is here to help me move it. Those are my only options right? Heh, nope! Where did I go for a solution to my problem? The garage you say? Wrong! I went in the kitchen!

I thought to myself, “you know todder if you put some plates under those legs I bet they’d slide across the carpet no problem!” Then I said to myself, “yeah that’d probably work but the table is pretty heavy, could break the plates, we’d better use cookie sheets instead, they’re cheap, won’t break and if I bend them I’ll just chunk ‘em in the trash and go on about my bitness.” So I actually got a couple of cake pans and another baking pan and put them under the four legs of the table and it slide like it was on wheels. I spun the whole table around so I wouldn’t have to re-arrange the track to accomodate the controller and slid the table in the corner out of the way of the path way between the kitchen and the living room.

On a side note there is some SERIOUS bass in that song “Answer” that I was talking about in my previous post. My chair is currently vibrating! MORE POWER!!!! RRRRR!!!!:) Yes, Yes, I know The Todder is a serious Jackass! The General Jackass even! :) What a beautiful voice she has.

2 Comments

  1. You know, they make these little plastic doohickeys that are designed to do just that … they even have a lower coefficient of friction than your dang cookie sheets.

    Comment by Geof — 1/1/2004 @ 10:46 am

  2. Yeah, but if you can’t find a solution in the things that you have and you’re forced to go buy something then you can’t be classified as a redneck engineer. Redneck engineers are the best at solving problems with what they have! Look at Apollo 13. I’m sorry but even NASA has Redneck engineering going on!

    Comment by Todder — 1/1/2004 @ 10:49 am

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