I am such an impatient klutz (also I can't spell. Lol)

Re: I am such an impatient klutz (also I can't spell. Lol)

• jillybean800 member

  August 2011

  Is it a summer infant? Try calling the company! I hear they have really great customer service.

  I haven't wrecked anything expensive, but I did lose my wallet with over 300 dollars worth of gift cards in it.  I wanted to just die!
  

  

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• Cheekers2010 member

  August 2011

  jillybean800:

  Is it a summer infant? Try calling the company! I hear they have really great customer service.

  I haven't wrecked anything expensive, but I did lose my wallet with over 300 dollars worth of gift cards in it.  I wanted to just die!
  

  Oh, I'm sorry! That would make me sick, too. Thank you for helping me feel better! Yes, it's a Summer Infant. Of course, my DH has probably already taken it apart. They probably wouldn't take a Jerry-rigged monitor back. Sigh!

  
  

  
  

  BFP2: 10/27/13(edd 7/10/14) "Speck" ~ M/C 12/5/13
  

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• mamaholmes2010

  August 2011

  About a week after getting our brand new stove/oven I dropped the pepper shaker on it and chipped it.

  H was more than gracious and after a little epoxy and some white paint...good as new!

  I hope your H is able to fix your monitor...I always get sick to my stomach when stuff like this happens.

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• --halo-- member

  August 2011

  Well, do you remember my recently smashed iPhone?  Yea, that sucked.  

  I used to work at an engraving shop, and ruined a few fairly expensive things, but nothing over $50.  I ALMOST ruined an $8,000 clock once.  It was a hand-crafted wooden clock that was about 3 feet in diameter custom made for the OSU baseball team the first year they won the college world series.  It had hand painted portraits of all the players on it, and we'd been working on it for months with the clock maker.

  I had laser engraved various decorations on it including the signatures of the coaches.  When the maker of the clock came to pick it up he asked me if I could darken the signatures by putting 'laserdarc' in it, which is a black powder that sticks in engraving and you wipe off the excess.  He followed me back to my work table and asked if he could watch!  I was like, omg, um I guess...

  So right in front of him I put the laserdarc in and wipe it off and it goes all down in the grain of the wood and smudges everywhere!  I'd never laserdarced unfinished wood before, and the clock had a shiny coat on it, but it wasn't finished.  I almost died right then and there.  I spent the next several hours using double sided tape and compressed air to get the black powder out of the wood grain.  

  I used to be a big deal.  Now I'm just old. 

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• Cheekers2010 member

  August 2011

  --halo--:

  Well, do you remember my recently smashed iPhone?  Yea, that sucked.  

  I used to work at an engraving shop, and ruined a few fairly expensive things, but nothing over $50.  I ALMOST ruined an $8,000 clock once.  It was a hand-crafted wooden clock that was about 3 feet in diameter custom made for the OSU baseball team the first year they won the college world series.  It had hand painted portraits of all the players on it, and we'd been working on it for months with the clock maker.

  I had laser engraved various decorations on it including the signatures of the coaches.  When the maker of the clock came to pick it up he asked me if I could darken the signatures by putting 'laserdarc' in it, which is a black powder that sticks in engraving and you wipe off the excess.  He followed me back to my work table and asked if he could watch!  I was like, omg, um I guess...

  So right in front of him I put the laserdarc in and wipe it off and it goes all down in the grain of the wood and smudges everywhere!  I'd never laserdarced unfinished wood before, and the clock had a shiny coat on it, but it wasn't finished.  I almost died right then and there.  I spent the next several hours using double sided tape and compressed air to get the black powder out of the wood grain.  

  Holy cow! I'm sweating just hearing this story.

  
  

  
  

  BFP2: 10/27/13(edd 7/10/14) "Speck" ~ M/C 12/5/13
  

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• Cheekers2010 member

  August 2011

  mamaholmes2010:

  About a week after getting our brand new stove/oven I dropped the pepper shaker on it and chipped it.

  H was more than gracious and after a little epoxy and some white paint...good as new!

  I hope your H is able to fix your monitor...I always get sick to my stomach when stuff like this happens.

  Yeah, my DH was totally gracious about it. Almost made me feel worse. Glad your stove turned out ok!

  
  

  
  

  BFP2: 10/27/13(edd 7/10/14) "Speck" ~ M/C 12/5/13
  

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• TMNTgirl member

  August 2011

  I love it when hubby's can come to the rescue and fix stuff like that.

  DH and I lived in an appt that had a tiny garage space and I ripped the side-view mirror off the passenger side when I was backing out one time.

  Luckily my DH is a mechanic and whenever I screw things up with our cars he can get parts for cheap and fix everything for us.

  

   
  

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• utlawgirl member

  August 2011

  I stepped on our laptop and broke the screen like a week after we bought it... d'oh! Fortunately, having the screen replaced was much less expensive than replacing the laptop. I know the feeling, though -- hope you have your monitor back soon!

    

   

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• jnicolen1 member

  August 2011

  i put  my laptop in my bag thinking i was going to carry it on.  at the last minute my H decided to check his bag, so of course, i sent mine in too..not thinking.  of course the screen cracked when i opened it.  i cried.
  

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