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Missed it by that much

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Missed it by that much
Posted by mike33469 on Sunday, December 26, 2004 8:10 PM
I thought tonight I was finally going to fini***he bench work for my around the room layout, after much delay, 2 hurricanes [temp. lost my job after the first one] tonight was going to be it. But as luck would have I ran out of wood screws and ran short of 1"X4"s by 57 ". The good news is my boss gave us Monday off. He's going to the Miami / Cleveland game tonight.
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Posted by twhite on Sunday, December 26, 2004 10:17 PM
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Benchwork, Willst. I was ALWAYS running out of wood-screws when I built mine, the guys at Home Depot thought I was building a subdivision, the amount of time I spent running down there for more. It seems no matter how well we plan, we're always short something--screws or lumber. When I finished, finally, I had a whole bunch of 1x2's left over, my neighbor asked me what I was going to do with them, I told him "Hoard the suckers, in case I get another itch!" They're still leaning against the garage wall four years later--hey, I may need to add onto that Holding Yard, right?
Have fun.
Tom
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Posted by ericsp on Sunday, December 26, 2004 11:40 PM
fter reading the thread title, I have one question. Do you call your boss chief?[:D]

"No soup for you!" - Yev Kassem (from Seinfeld)

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Posted by rrinker on Monday, December 27, 2004 9:28 AM
I'll bet he takes calls on his shoe...

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