"It'll only take a minute..."

[Bailey Guns]

Ever get asked by the wife to do something that in and of itself is no big deal but you're kinda doing something else and really don't wanna stop for her little chore? Yeah...so I stopped anyways just because doing it would take less time than fighting about it. Or so I thought.

She unpacked a box and found some decorative metal light switch plate covers that she wanted in the bedroom. 3 of them. Sure, fine. What I'm doing isn't that important anyways. And it's 3 switch covers. What is that? 5 mins tops?

Go to garage and get phillips screwdriver for new plate screws. Go back to garage and get slotted screw driver because old plates have slotted screws. First cover on in less than 2 mins. Nice. 2nd cover on under 4 mins elapsed time (took an extra 30-45 seconds because it was a 3-holer). Final plate. Fuck!

The last plate was a 2-switch cover that wouldn't fit it's intended switch because the metal bear on top was facing the wrong direction (he was facing left...that should've been a hint to me). The head of the bear didn't clear the trim around the door. Not even close. I almost just put the damn thing on upside down but knew she'd notice.

So, putting on a light switch cover involved the follow:

removing the old cover.
finding my Dremel with cutoff wheel and removing the bear by cutting through the original welds
grinding the attach points of the bear and plate to smooth out the welds/cuts
finding my welder (still waiting to put all my stuff in the shop because the floor isn't cured/painted)
getting to my welder
welding the bear on to the plate
fixing a small hole in the plate because the welder was set too high
cleaning up the welds
finding a suitable bluing/rusting chemical in my gun stuff to roughly match the finish on the plate
putting everything away
mounting the plate with the bear facing the proper direction...to the right.


2 hours after beginning the 5 minute project was finished.

I told her I was done. Her only comment was, "Finally. I asked you to do that like 2 hours ago."

[StagLefty]

Should of taken her to IKEA !!! [Sarcasm2]

[BlasterBob]

Title of this post sounds like it is going to be about a "quickie".

[Irving]

That would have been half done at my house for 5 months.

[cstone]

Nice.

My similar recent was when the wife asked me to set up the picnic table umbrella. Crank to open and nothing. Needed to be restrung to open, so a two minute job took an hour.

Its always something. [Beer]

[newracer]

I would have just told her the plate wouldn't fit that location.

[sniper7]

I saw no mention of beer in there. That would have made it a better project

[Dave_L]

LOL! All the time. Then the wife wonders why none of my stuff gets done in a timely manner. By the time you get done with all their 5 minute projects, you're exhausted.

[Great-Kazoo]

"Finally. I asked you to do that like 2 hours ago."

Yes you did darling. yet when i ask, You always have a headache.

[Dave_L]

"Finally. I asked you to do that like 2 hours ago."

Yes you did darling. yet when i ask, You always have a headache.

[MOD cleanup]

[Bailey Guns]

I would have just told her the plate wouldn't fit that location.

No way I'm gonna say that. Then I'd have to endure a 2 hour, Gestapo-like interrogation.

Why? What if you did it this way? Why can't you do this? I'd rather spend the entire day making it work.

[clodhopper]

Usually how most small tasks end up for me. What aggravates me more is when the wife decides on Sunday afternoon that some project needs to be done that ordinarily takes a couple days, but since she has no idea, she thinks it will only take an hour or so. Then she gets all bent when I respond with a very quick "No". This is the woman who is known for starting 4 or 5 home improvement projects that she thought were easy, but runs into a snag and goes off to start another one. I come home from somewhere to find 5 messes that I have to resolve. Invariably several involve a completely stripped screw or something because she was using the wrong tool... and the simple becomes amazingly complex.

And then has the nerve to ask when I am going to get around to working on that pile of junk in the garage that has been there "forever". Well, if I wasn't over-involved with my sons' activities because you guilt me into it, then have unreasonable expectations of home projects, I might have a fricken minute or two to dedicate to what "I" want to do. Which usually comes out worded as "yeah, I hope soon."

[cstone]

"Finally. I asked you to do that like 2 hours ago."

Yes you did darling. yet when i ask, You always have a headache.

Thinking about sex, I am reading the thread title in a completely different way. [Coffee]

[newracer]

No way I'm gonna say that. Then I'd have to endure a 2 hour, Gestapo-like interrogation.

Why? What if you did it this way? Why can't you do this? I'd rather spend the entire day making it work.

[Beer]

[StagLefty]

You do know that duct tape comes in several colors now ?

[Dave_L]

No way I'm gonna say that. Then I'd have to endure a 2 hour, Gestapo-like interrogation.

Why? What if you did it this way? Why can't you do this? I'd rather spend the entire day making it work.

Or you'd just get a different project. Better to stay on the task at hand and keep it simple.

[BushMasterBoy]

The problem is finding duct tape to match her shoes.


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[Guylee]

My wife never makes me do anything I don't want to do because she's the best wife ever and also doesn't exist.

[flogger]

^^^^^^
THIS ...........(unless you are reading this Honey.... love you.....!)

[TheGrey]

[Coffee]

[TFOGGER]

"But it only took the guy in the Youtube video like 10 minutes..."

Yeah, it's called editing...[facepalm]

[Not_A_Llama]

Biggest lesson from my consulting days was to always get credit for the little shit, even if you don't bill for it.

You're not trying to be petty; people are just bad at keeping track of the sacrifices of others.

[brutal]

You do know that duct tape comes in several colors now ?

And clear. C L E A R duct tape. Wonderous and magical..