"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:

1. removing the old cover.
2. finding my Dremel with cutoff wheel and removing the bear by cutting through the original welds
3. grinding the attach points of the bear and plate to smooth out the welds/cuts
4. finding my welder (still waiting to put all my stuff in the shop because the floor isn't cured/painted)
5. getting to my welder
6. welding the bear on to the plate
7. fixing a small hole in the plate because the welder was set too high
8. cleaning up the welds
9. finding a suitable bluing/rusting chemical in my gun stuff to roughly match the finish on the plate
10. putting everything away
11. 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 !!!

[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.

[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.

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