Today a funny thing happened. My dad was talking about installing a swimming pool for our family, and also about the cost of it all, over dinner.
He realized that the cost of the installation was more than months of the cost of use.
He said maybe the best thing to do was to just order it, lay out all the pieces, and just get *minkx* to put it together. Everyone kind of looked at eachother and laughed. It's funny, you never realize the strange characteristics that people can see in you...until someone jokes about it right in front of you.
I thought about it, and it's true. I think I've always been like this. My dad would buy me toys when I was little and I'd sit all day on xmas morning assembling the parts while the other little kids got their parents to do it. Just last year I bought a bbq and assembled it myself. My dad got me to put together his new tool box a few months ago. Yes I see the irony.
Now that my sis has had a baby, I end up assembling something at least once every couple of weeks. Disney princess beds, couches, rocking chairs....battery operated cars, tea-sets and farm lands ....
I really love putting things together, I love math and problem solving. Hmm although now I think I've gotten myself into a problem I can't solve this time. Now no one in my family can set a vcr clock, program their cell phones, move a bed, change a light bulb or fix the screw in a broken pair of glasses. Everyone depends on me for this stuff now. And I know, I know, boo hoo right? Well after the joke at the dinner table....and my sister calling me at 2am the other night to find out how to set up her computer in the living room, I've realized that even though I love helping them, and I enjoy learning all these small handy skills, I have to kick the little birdies out of the nest, but not before handing them each an allen key.
He realized that the cost of the installation was more than months of the cost of use.
He said maybe the best thing to do was to just order it, lay out all the pieces, and just get *minkx* to put it together. Everyone kind of looked at eachother and laughed. It's funny, you never realize the strange characteristics that people can see in you...until someone jokes about it right in front of you.
I thought about it, and it's true. I think I've always been like this. My dad would buy me toys when I was little and I'd sit all day on xmas morning assembling the parts while the other little kids got their parents to do it. Just last year I bought a bbq and assembled it myself. My dad got me to put together his new tool box a few months ago. Yes I see the irony.
Now that my sis has had a baby, I end up assembling something at least once every couple of weeks. Disney princess beds, couches, rocking chairs....battery operated cars, tea-sets and farm lands ....
I really love putting things together, I love math and problem solving. Hmm although now I think I've gotten myself into a problem I can't solve this time. Now no one in my family can set a vcr clock, program their cell phones, move a bed, change a light bulb or fix the screw in a broken pair of glasses. Everyone depends on me for this stuff now. And I know, I know, boo hoo right? Well after the joke at the dinner table....and my sister calling me at 2am the other night to find out how to set up her computer in the living room, I've realized that even though I love helping them, and I enjoy learning all these small handy skills, I have to kick the little birdies out of the nest, but not before handing them each an allen key.
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It didn't do it's part though and now i am seriously bitter towards sex shops.