An A for effort

Well it's not everyday you realize what a moron you are. Today was just that for me.

In trying to install a few new shelves to rearrange our book displays, i began my mission at Lowes, trying to find some brackets that would allow me to install the shelves we already have. Of course, they do not sell what we needed. After brainstorming with myself for a few minutes, I decided the next best option was to buy some wood and cut the shelves myself, to the exact size we needed them.

I meandered over to the lumber section where I quickly spotted the right type of wood. They had two choices, first were four sheets of 4ft x 2ft boards, in which I would have sufficient wood for 4 shelves. Option two were two sheets of 4ft x 4ft, in which I could make 6 shelves. You do the math.

After dragging these heavy 4ft x 4ft boards through the store and the checkout line, I got them to my brand new chevy equinox, and quickly realized they would be a tight fit. Rather than walk the 50 feet to have the boards either cut, or tied on to my roof, I used my knowledge of angles to wedge the boards into the back of my SUV, realizing after the fact that the were scraping along the plastic in my new car.

For the life of me, I will never understand why you are able to get items into a tight fit, and then you can never get them out. Like if you put your head between cage bars at a zoo, and then can't get it out. Seems to defy the laws of physics.

Once back at the store, the boards would not come out of my car. I pried and angled and did everything possible, but there was no way they were coming out. So to cut to the chase, when our owner, Pam, walked up, she inquired as to why I had a handsaw out, sawing boards in half in the back of my new car. I had to explain that in my stupidity, I was not trying to cut the shelving in the back of my car, rather, I was simply trying to get the freakin boards out.

I have never heard her laugh so much in my life.

Well maybe tomorrow I will do something smart to make up for my lapse of intelligence. On a positive note, I was able to salvage and cut 4 shelves from the existing wood!

Be well.