When rinsing the tomato sauce bottle don't fill it with very hot water and shake well. The pressure blows the lid off and sends the contents spraying around the room and up the curtains.
donnabeth,
Jan 10, 4:59pm
Thank you for the ladder holding hint. I ususally get bored and begin to admire Hubby's bum, but yesterday I was on ladder duty for a good part of the day and thankfully I remembered the hint and held on properly. Thus when the ladder did begin to wobble I was able to lean into it before it fell.
crackerjack19,
Jan 10, 7:04pm
I have not laughed so much for years and thank you guys so much for sharing.Now I guess its my turn and it is the 'at home' ones that seem to cause me most teasing over the years.Like put your ladder between rafters when putting up facia board, not over the end of one and not notice till getting down to admire your work.At work: fixing wood shingles on a roof and when cleaning up reaching out too far duck board flips sending me feet first down the roof.Successfully stopping speedy descent by jamming heels into metal gutter taking deep breaths of relief only to be hit on head by duckboard following speedily behind.Lump on head only injury.I think.!
peanuts,
Jan 11, 3:27am
Keep it going Bump bump
dona,
Jan 11, 3:42am
More pet food! Our daughter brought back some pet food treats from Japan for the cat and dog. Wife decides to give one treat for the dog which looks deceptively like a Mintie. Throws it over to me telling me to give to the animal. But I'm a bit hard of hearing and thinking its is for me unwrap and eat. A delicious strong cheesy flavour. Wife goes into hysterics and dog retires in disgust.
kuaka,
Jan 11, 4:20am
crackerjack - sounds like fun!What do you do for an encore!
at-home,
Jan 11, 2:04pm
dear previous owner. ceiling paint (even when tinted a lovely colour) is not appropriate for painting kitchen cupboards, Grouting bathroom tiles with polyfiller is not at all successful - but looks lovely until you turn on the shower, clean the pubic hairs off the bath before siliconing (Gross) . Actually I'm scared to find what other treats I have in store!
lovelurking,
Jan 11, 3:36pm
I want the 101. This is for all the plumbers out there.Before giving the all clear after a big build, make sure you have taken the cloth off that you used to cover the sewer pipes with months earlier.It is much better than leaving it until all the 6 toilets in that block have been used several times and you have to dig for days in the heat and smelly mess to remove it.
sarahc2,
Jan 11, 7:01pm
Lol, just found this thread, what a laugh! We have many of these, but one that springs to mind, from years ago, is don't assume your three year old is asleep at your parents friends beautiful new house just because she's quiet when you listen through the door, do physically stick your head in and check on her, otherwise she may start pulling strips of wall paper off said beautiful house's spare room walls :-p
at-home,
Jan 12, 1:08pm
bumping - cos it's a great read! hope someone is turning this into a book
kuaka,
Jan 12, 4:14pm
When moving into a brand new house, it pays to check that the plumbing has all been done correctly and even though everything has been passed by the Council there is still no guarantee that this is so.I remember my first hubby being called in to look at a house because the new owners couldn't track down the awful smell and they couldn't get any hot water.Turned out that the sewerage pipes weren't connected to the sewerage, it was just going under the house, and the hot water had been connected to the garden taps not the bathroom and kitchen ones.Doesn't say much for council inspections does it!
hanmer,
Jan 12, 4:30pm
yrs ago our friend said. i'm not paying 800 to have that tree removed - i'll do it myself.the tree fell on the house and he was up for over 1000 bucks. i clnd a new unit for a builder and hot water came out by the toilet.
kuaka,
Jan 12, 10:22pm
keep them coming folks, what a good idea to write this lot up as a book.Who is going to volunteer!
vtr1000,
Jan 12, 11:34pm
from my dear hubby. leave pets outside when using blue gib glue in a room with pale cream carpet. Also, make sure you have a board under said gib when cutting to ensure that the carpet underneath is left intact.
stabi360,
Jan 13, 3:29am
when painting the roof of your house and you only have a small side to go before dark .dont !the dew that forms makes it run off into the gutters before morningso you have to do it all again
crackerjack19,
Jan 13, 3:36am
kuaka This incident was'nt an encore but looking back it did set some kind of trend for the 'funny' things that happened to me in the construction world. My first day on a site I was walking around some inadequate scaffolding when a board I stepped on went down with me on it.As I was falling I managed to grab the putlock that the plank should have rested on, the plank now without weight on that end came back up and hit me right where I have sometimes had a boot planted since then. Oh the joys of building.
kuaka,
Jan 14, 2:56am
crackerjack - I hate to say this, but it would have been so funny to watch.
redden39,
Jan 14, 1:07pm
I nearly spat tea all over my computer. I could just picture it and imagine the looks of horror and surprise on his face.
at-home,
Jan 14, 1:28pm
he he he And I thought that stuff only happened in cartoons!
gardenstuff,
Jan 14, 1:35pm
An old joke but mythbusters tried to set that one up and just about got it to work - but only by mutilating the barrow first.
sorbus,
Jan 14, 1:42pm
Never fill the mower while it is still going. they tend to catch fire. also don't push it uner the tap to put it out flaming petrol floats on water.however a catcher of clippings smothers it.silly teenager !
pling,
Jan 14, 2:25pm
Yeah, that story was on mythbusters! Yeah, that story was on mythbusters! It was so funny watching them try to make it work
vza,
Jan 14, 7:04pm
I have never laughed so much in my life! Began reading this morning, and been herefor nearly 7 hours.
I came here, wondering what advice i could find for my pending bathroom reno.
What I know now is. DON"T!
Thanks for the laughs.
majoba,
Jan 14, 8:13pm
Do remember that language usage is a funny thing. When you are renovating the bathroom and it is temporarily out of use, you will realise that the young man who you have engaged at the same time to fit a wardrobe is speaking euphemistically when he asks to "use your bathroom' You, a woman, will realise this when you see the look of horror on his face when you blithely reply, 'I just use the tub in the laundry'.
bradfam,
Jan 14, 9:59pm
shoot! found this about to pop into page three! bump!
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