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Re: Experience of Frustration - Wife, Paint, and LEGO Items
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 15 Feb 2002 18:18:11 GMT
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James & All,
> Bummer Scott. I had a experence sorta related, but mine was more my fault or
> so I was told by my NLSO.
And the NLSO is always right! ; )
> I had recently changed the light bulbs in my LSF(basement room) and was in
> the process of sorting some bulk bricks, so I had 7-8 blue tubs on the floor
> open, each with different colors. Well while I was sorting I kept hearing a
> loud thumping noise upstairs, I went up to investigate and found my 4 y/o
> jumping off his bed. While I'm giving him the "...because I told you so"
> lecture I heard a large crashing noise, the sound of glass shattering. I
> procedded downstairs to find that the glass bowl that was part of the light
> fixture in my LSF had come loose and fell and smashed to thousands of little
> pieces, of course this covered the room with little slivers of glass
> including the open tubs of bricks I had on the floor!! I took me almost a
> week to carefully sort the tubs again to remove each little piece of glass.
> I was still nervious to dig in the tubs for bricks for fear of cutting my hand.
>
> That was about 6 months ago and I haven't found any glass since then, so it
> looks like I'm glass free. My NLSO claims that I should have tightened the
> bowl better on the fixture, while I claim my son should listen to the "wrath
> of dad" and stop jumping off his bed.
Wow, that is an interesting event.
I think when MichLTC was at GATS in January, I think I spilled a Coke or
Pepsi or something in my 3033 bin of green bricks, because some of them were
sticky when I was trying to sort them earlier this week. But that doesn't
compare to glass!
Scott S.
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