A bad day.. that turned out great.

I got home from work today.. (snuck out a bit early as it was such a nice day.. good day to wrench on the Cuda!).. got home, and our 14 yr old Labradoodle had a bad day. He never poops in the house.. well today, he had to. By the looks of it, he did his business right in front of the bathroom.. and then fell on it, and couldn't get up. His hips are bad.. and he can't get a grip on linoleum. So, I spent 45 mins cleaning up and hosing him off, got out of my monkey suit, and headed out to work on the Cuda. Rounded off the bolt on the bottom of the fender, yay. Can't get an air wrench on the bolt by the cowl, yay. My patience is at zero lately, not getting much sleep. Make supper, cool down a bit, figure I'll take off the doors to get to the cowl fender bolts, they have to come off anyway.

The 17 yr. old boy offered to help.. he hasn't been big on this before. We had a blast getting the doors off. He made a bad day good

Good day

Any time a kid wants to help is a great one.

He unbolted the doors while I held them (when it wasn't resting on the jackstands). Last top bolt, as I'm moving the door a bit this way and that so he can turn it out with his finger, he says "it's straight right there! Still hard, but it's straight!".. I had to say "that's what she said!"... we had to stop from his laughing... he is a 17 yr. old boy.

Thats a real Fathers day!

The kid needs to take a whiz while working on this.. goes like he's just gonna hang it out in front of the garage. Me: "Hey! It's broad daylight, and you're not 4 years old anymore." ..."Crap, I'll have to run in the house." I stop him, and show him my piss bucket over in the corner behind a bunch of boxes. "Dump that outside when you're done.. I don't wanna smell your old piss. And don't tell your mom". He's a learnin'.

The first thing I mounted after building my garage was a large funnel with an old heater hose going through the wall out behind the garage into the hedges. It's in the corner, conveniently located beside the beer fridge. Didn't take my 17 year old long to figure it out either!

Dave 74 Dart said:

The first thing I mounted after building my garage was a large funnel with an old heater hose going through the wall out behind the garage into the hedges. It's in the corner, conveniently located beside the beer fridge. Didn't take my 17 year old long to figure it out either!

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That's awesome! I might have to incorporate something like that before I insulate/osb up my garage.

Yup, works great ! I even insulated/osb the garage a wall at a time, just cut around the hose as it was beside a stud. Getting lazy in my older age, don't like going out in the winter anymore than I have to !!

Another tidbit about the boy helping me last night. He gets the last bolt out, I set the door off to the side. He drops the ratchet on the fender.. no cover or anything, plonk! I just give him that look... "what?" he says. Me: "Dude! Don't just drop that on the fender like that. At best, you're gonna get all that greasy stuff on the paint. At worst, you're gonna chip it, and have a nice rust spot there in a couple years". So, he grabs it, and then throws it on the seat. I give him that 'dumbass' look again. "What now?" Me: "Now you got that grease on the seat. Hop in the car tomorrow in your work clothes, and get laughed at all day because it looks like you have a **** streak up your pants. Yeah, you could probably laugh that off. Get in the habit of not doing it.. do that to your girlfriends car, and she goes to work and gets laughed at, you're gonna have a bad 2 weeks with no noodle time". So, he takes it off the seat, just drops it on the concrete right there. Another 'dumbass' look... "Now what?!?"... I just gesture to the pile of tools a couple feet away. "Keep them all in one spot, so you're not looking everywhere for that wrench you 'just had'.."
He's a learnin'.

They are fun when they get that age...can start messing with them more like a man...my boy is also 17, we were on vacation went into a restroom and both walked up to a urinal...I walked up to the short urinal and he is at the higher one next to me...he kind of looks at me funny and says "why are you using that one?" I say "nobody has told you??.....this for dudes with long dicks.....I guess your not to that point yet"....later the same day in another restroom with no short urinals we walk up to the urinals and I look over and say..."damn that water is cold!!!" ....he's learnin... good times!!! I also have had the same talks about where you can and cant put tools, what you can and touch when your car is in primer and your hands are dirty...