The strangest things amuse me

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Sometimes I wonder about myself.... :)

We have a paper shredder at work and I just love using it. Whenever I'm stressed out or in a bad mood I go shred some papers and it makes me feel better. Our secretary saves papers that need shredding for me to use.

Our friends Jeani and Jason have a popcan crusher. You can smash a popcan down flat with it so it doesn't take up as much space in the recycling bin. I like smashing popcans as much if not more than shredding paper. I was in the hardware store today and they had popcan crushers on sale, so now I have one of my very own! I can hardly wait to get home and try it out!

What strange things amuse you?

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2003

Answers

You, Sherri, YOU! :-p

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2003

I love popping those little bubble wrap sheets that come in packages. In work, we get the big ones that make loud pops and I'll stand there, merrily popping away. Drives my boss's son crazy. Last time, he grabbed the sheet away from me and squeezed them all at once so I wouldn't be able to do it any more... I reached out into another box and pulled out more :) hee hee I think I love driving him crazy just as much as popping the bubbles.

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2003

Me too, Dee!!! Harry gets so P-O'd at me when I'm popping them that he takes them away from me, puts the sheet on the floor and stomps on all those bubbles that should have been popped by ME :-)!! BTW...my granddaughter likes to pop them, also!

-- Anonymous, April 16, 2003

Ooh bubble wrap, that's another good one. If you have a hard surface floor, put the bubble wrap on the floor and then sit in an office chair and roll over it. It sounds like firecrackers going off. It works best with the small bubbles, the big bubbles are too hard to roll over.

When I worked in the research lab we would make CO2 bombs using dry ice, water, and plastic pop bottles. Or we did, until Campus Security had a little chat with us. :)

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2003


Sometimes we'll put a sheet of the big ones on the ground and let the boss's dog walk over it (he's 6 months and over 100 lbs. Mastiff) The son looks at me first then realizes it's the dog. He doesn't realize it's me getting the dog to do it...hee hee

Sherri, my son tells me about the things he does in Chemistry and Physics classes. I worry about that sometimes, wondering if they'll blow something up.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2003



bubble wrap doen't do much for me but Lotus went through a bubble wrap phase. She loved it so much she had one entire wall in her bedroom wallpapered with it, in a variety of colors and sizes. Since I often use the stuff for shipping stuff (although I would never buy it since it's plastic), I occassionally sneaked in there and removed a little piece from her excellent selection.

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2003

My mother used bubble wrap to catch me sneaking in the house drunk when I was 17 by carpeting the kitchen floor with it :>) We had a guy do the office chair at work once. Not good in a high voltage engineering lab. After we all unpuckered, the lead engineer called a coffee break and left popper boy to pop bubbles to his hearts content and man the phones with a kind explanation why bubble popping needs to be done during powered down break times :>)

-- Anonymous, April 17, 2003

Smart Mom...hummm, my son is 15 now...

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2003

It was pretty amusing to come home tonight (after working late b/c this morning I had to deal with a sheep with a not-entirely-aborted fetus at home first, and then go in to work several hours late after the farm call, and then the trip to the vet hospital after getting a neighbor to hitch up her horse trailer to transport my ewe and I) to find several pieces of our living room carpet removed just in time for our Easter weekend company to arrive. Not the whole carpet. Just a few spots.

I guess Mr. S. must think carpeted areas are like bubble wrap...something that needs to be obsessively dealt with. Why remove the whole carpet? Why not just remove a 2' x 6' piece every once in a while? Each day, a new visualization of our living room floor can be experienced.

Lovely bare pieces of flooring...not even hardwood flooring. Did I say amusing? I was responding I guess to the "strange". Who needs control over their visual environment, I always say...and why chat with Mr. S. about it? Isn't it more fun to just suffer, than say, argue about it?

So, suffering on Good Friday,

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2003


p.s. For all you medically inclined folks...

Don't they provide O2 when they put a patient on bypass?

-- Anonymous, April 18, 2003



Sheepish, what are you talking about? Why is he doing that?

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2003

"Put a patient on bypass" - not sure I understand what you mean. Are you talking about Mr. S or the ewe? Do you think Mr. S's strange behavior with the carpet is somehow related to O2 starvation? Do you mean O2 after a cardiac bypass? If so; yes, while hospitalized, until their oxygen saturation levels are at a good level, say 94- 100%, then off. Unless they don't sat at least 88-90%, in which case they might (and that's a might) go home with it for a while.

And as for the carpet, I've come to the conclusion that men are wired differently in the "hearth and home" zone of the brain. He probably really doesn't get it that you DO NOT want the carpet chopped out in small pieces right before company is expected, so that they can trip over the areas while admiring the sub floor. He probably doesn't understand that you would like your house to look nice for company. "Gee, honey; what does it matter?" DUH!! MORONS!! Why, yes; I am ready to kill both of mine this morning - how'd you guess?! Go ahead, use the oxygen starvation to the brain excuse with your company - chances are they won't know any different anyway!

Actually, people ARE usually kind of weird after any type of open chest/thoracic surgery - lasts about 6 months or so. Of course, in our family, it's kind of hard to tell the difference... Chalk up the carpet to the OR and let it slide. I'd tell you to go pull weeds (kill, KILL, KILL!!), but you're probably as busy getting ready for Easter as I am. I personally plan to go roll around in the yard with the dogs - right after I get the pie crust in the oven and right before I go shower before I head to town to get a perm. Why in the hell did I get an appointment for a perm in the middle of the day, the day before Easter?! Need oxygen, I guess (to hell with oxygen, I need GIN!)

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2003


No Polly, you need bubble wrap!!!! The stress relief of the future.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2003

You guys are even funnier than I thought! But I'm in a funny mood right now, for sure!

EM, Mr. S. is thinking that the carpet needs replacing (and it does, BUT...), so he has been using a carpet knife to slice up sections of the carpet and pad that he can handle (still careful about his chest healing and weight lifting restrictions), and then carrying them out of the house to stack next to the wood shed (to dissolve in the rain?). We DID have a problem with our new geriatric cat (of 4 mos now) urinating on the carpet in the corners of the rooms. This was possibly a result of stress induced by him having new owners and all the commotion with surgery absences, as well as having to lock him out (kitty!) of bedroom at night (where he used to sleep pre- surgery, but was not a good idea post-, due to kitty launching himself off the high-boy dresser onto chests (human) lying on the bed whilst sleeping)! Not a problem now (jumping or urinating inappropriately).

Anyway, my theory was that *cleaning* the carpet would suffice, at least until we remodel and rip it all up anyway (in 1.5 years). Mr. S. thought that it would be better to rip it up in sections (as mentioned). Unfortunately (for me only), he didn't think to discuss the feasiblity and/or timing of this for our entertaining plans. So...

I'm kind of wondering if this behavior is amusing....! I guess being married for 21 years is somewhat amusing as well!

Thanks Polly for your insight. You have good points (as always!). Bless you!

Anyway, what's Easter without a floor show? And what's lambing season without sleep deprivation????

Love to you all, and blessings to you this Holiday (carpeted or not..).

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2003


Happy Easter all

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2003


Sheepish, I probably isn't any consolation but I've done the same thing to my living room carpet that Mr S did to yours. And I don't even have open heart surgery as an excuse! :-P My elderly cat has some litterbox issues too, I think we've got them figured out now (I hope!) She had gone in two different corners, and even though I steam cleaned the carpet there still was enough smell left to "inspire" the other two cats. I got fed up and just cut out the carpet, pad, and tack strip and tossed them in the trash.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2003

Thanks, Dee, for the Easter wishes! Bubble wrap is too slow for me - I get frustrated popping those little bubbles and end up throwing it on the floor and jumping up and down on it. Which just leaves me in deranged-looking-around-for-something-to-kill mode. I did find something even better than gin tho - I took the leftover pie crust and put it on a cookie sheet, brushed it with butter and then sprinkled cinnamon sugar over it and baked it. Ahhh - carbs, sugar and fat; works every time!!

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2003

Hi Sherri! I would have possibly cut out the carpet, too. But he's cutting it out piece by piece; strips at a time. The whole place looks like a really bad haircut! If I had planned to take it out, (and yeah, if I had a physical restriction, I would ask for help), I would have arranged to get it somewhere out of the rain until it could go to the dump or wherever, and have some idea as to when/what to paint on the subfloor, etc. This was kind of spontaneous and (especially interesting), done without me being able to discuss. Kind of like Jay's post-relationship burn the furniture situation. Hmmm! Maybe I had better pay more attention! Maybe Mr. S. is in the POST phase, and I'm still thinking I'm in the DURING phase! EEOWWWW!

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2003

Maybe I'm not clear. Presently, I have most of the carpet; just 9/10ths of it is gone. In another week, another 1/10 of it will disappear, etc. Aw, whatever...

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2003

Maybe Mr. S should get a job at Home Depot. They charge $1.50 a square yard to tear up carpet, and another $1.50 to dispose of it. :)

I haven't been able to try out the popcan crusher yet. It needs to be screwed into the wall, so I'm saving it for the new house.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2003


Sheepish, NOW is the time to discuss with him plans for the subfloor; before he gets all his chopping done! As in "Darling, you do know that oil based paint will take an eon to dry in this climate, so if we're going to paint the floor, perhaps we'd better consider a latex; and it would be ever so nice, Pumpkin, if it somewhat matched, or at the very least, doesn't clash horribly with the furnishings..."

Yeah, Good Luck.

Now is also probably the time to go shopping for a cheap area rug, to use until you recarpet!

When Jes's Dad and I were building the house before this one, we built a two story barn type garage first, while we were waiting for our house in town to sell. We ended up living in it for 6 months or so, while we built the new house. This is how I know how long oil based floor paint takes to dry! We painted the floor a nice medium grey and then I "splattered" it with white, green, pink, red, and blue. I found two large rugs; one a white heavy cotton "rag" rug with pink, blue and green in it, for our bedroom upstairs; and another one that had a grey background with reds, greens and blues in it, for the room downstairs; and also a smaller rag rug in pink, blue and grey for Jessie's small bedroom; all of which worked well with the floor - and, wonder of wonders, with our minimal furniture. Gee, I miss living in that garage! It was way back in the woods so it was usually cool; and we'd screened the entire area where the garage door was and put in a screen door, so I'd go downstairs in the morning and hit the garage door opener and have the whole world right there at my fingertips (literally!) while I fixed breakfast.

Anyway, hope you get your flooring problem figured out soon; at least the small strips will be easier to load for a trip to the dump than a huge soaked roll of carpet. Do you have trash service? Maybe you could have Mr. S cut the strips in smaller squares and put it in your trash a bit at a time.

Deep breaths, girl; it can't possibly last forever!

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2003


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