luck, rant

ericlb · Dec 9, 2016

well my luck is right on par, got a chevy v8 down in one of my trucks, for a simple water pump replacement, since the front timing cover seal has been leaking for 4 years, and is now getting to be a problem, i might as well fix that while im in there, go to get the harmonic balancer puller tool, ... mines been loaned out, and ive forgot who has it, it figures, i borrow one, from another friend, he's out of town but his boy can round up the parts and drop it off at a store in town on his way thru so i can get it, .... got it..got back out to the farm and get ready to use it, pull it out of the bag its in with all the bolts... all but the center bolt! pretty hard to use it without that! just told the wife on her way back thru town to just stop and buy one so i have a whole one, now all i need is for the town to actually have one to sell, they got lots of tourist trinkets, and lots of overpriced houses, and lots of..... i'll find something else somewhere that they have

Philip d · Dec 9, 2016

We all have bad days now and than but they do get better. My wife tells me to look around and be thankful for what I do have and she's right even though it takes hearing it once in awhile for it to sink in,chin up!

showcrop · Dec 9, 2016

Sounds like perfectly good luck but a lack of something else to me.

BobReeves · Dec 9, 2016

Have pretty well resolved that anything I set out to do is going to turn into a project no matter how simple it may seem at first. It's always some bigger problem uncovered, don't have a necessary part or tool, have to make 47 trips to town, order a dozen parts and ask 37 questions on this forum.

coshoo · Dec 9, 2016

I figured that the punch line was going to be that the one you borrowed now turned out to be yours that you lent out years ago. But hope you got it all together, and could finish the project.

old-9 · Dec 9, 2016

Seems like everything takes longer than planned. It took me two days to change oil on my 9-N, needed a gasket that I swore I had 3 of. Oh well another trip to town, only 10 miles one way.
Where I used to work, one day needed a generator. Boss/owner remembered gassing it up ,showing a (?) friend how to start it, BUT not who he loaned it to! Just the way it goes. joe

PJH · Dec 9, 2016

EVERY day is a gift! Your wife has it figgered out!

Determined · Dec 9, 2016

Try not to get it dirty then you can return it tomorrow when you go to town to pick up a speedy sleeve for the balancer. :lol:

Philip d · Dec 9, 2016

Ohh she's always right!

Royse · Dec 9, 2016

Every day looking down upon the daisies beats pushing them up.
Or so I'm told!

And yes, every day is a gift, that's why they call it "the present".

One more? Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

David G · Dec 9, 2016

Just when I thought I was getting ahead, the draft blower failed on the furnace, it was almost a grand.

Bob · Dec 10, 2016

When stuff like that breaks it sure takes a $$$ chunk of what a guy saved with a high efficiency unit to start with, doesn't it!

Ian Beale · Dec 10, 2016

"Seems like everything takes longer than planned."

The first half of Jerry Pournelle's Law of Budgets and Deadlines - everything takes longer and costs more

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