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Offline Bill

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Hero to Zero
« on: May 15, 2011, 03:50:22 PM »
What a Shit weekend.
Went from a hero on Friday to a zero on Saturday.
Friday
Pool pump has been acting up for a few days (ok ok 37 days to be exact).
So instead of taking everyones advice and purchasing a new pump I tore the old one apart replaced the bearings ($9.80) and it ran like a top.
Saved myself about $400.00 on a new pump.
So.. Yup... You guessed it... Im a Hero!!!
Saturday
Stopped at B&D Landscaping to pick up 3 bags of stone for Morags gardens.
While there she notices they have mulch on special so (under much protest from me) she orders some to be deiliered.
Mulch arrives.
Get the wheelbarrow and forks out and we start mulching the backside of the pool... Done
Start mulching along my shed... Done
Then she wants to mulch the front of the pool which is a pain in the royal butt because there is no room between the garden and the pool lip so it has to be mulched with buckets.
The following conversation then takes place
 Me "I know I can run the wheelbarrow along the 6" wide lip of the pool then we dont have to bucket it"
Morag " I dont think thats a good idea"
Me " Its no problem why when I was 30 years younger I used wheelbarrow concrete in tighter spots and never spilled it"
Morag " I dont think thats a good idea"
At this point my dog (Gillie) is looking at me with a look on his face that says "Dad, I dont think thats a good idea"
Me " Its settled then... I'm wheelbarrowing it"
At this point Morag and Gillie just sigh and resign themselves to the fact that I' am a rock on the subject and it is going to happen my way...
5 minutes later I have run the wheelbarrow along the lip of the pool to exactly where we need it.
I have the total look of complete triumph on my face and am already thinking of how I' am going to gloat.
I empty half of it... then in my millisecond of triumph I decide to step back and empty the rest.
Yup.... You guessed it.... Off the ledge and into the pool I go taking the wheelbarrow 1/2 full of mulch with me.
When I get to the surface Morag anf Gillie are staring at me.
Morag then asks if I'm ok.
Sure I' am I reply.
I have never seen her laugh so hard in my life!!!
Even Gillie was laughing.
Then Morag mentions something about wishing she had a video camera.
Then she says " I have never seen anyone try as hard as you to get out of mulching"
So all Saturday afternoon and all today I have been cleaning mulch out of my pool.
And every so often I catch Morag or Gillie laughing under thier breath...
So Hero one day and Zero the next...
Bill
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2011, 03:52:45 PM »
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2011, 03:53:59 PM »
Dam... i wish she had the camera out.... lmao.. :cup:
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2011, 04:27:51 PM »
Murphy said What ever can happen will . His laws are infoulable . Sit yourself down , grasp a coldie . Upend till empty ,repeat till you have forgotten why you started . This wont clean the pool but aftera time you wont care   :cheers: :cheers:
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2011, 04:29:43 PM »
Forgot to ask......... How was the water Bill.... lmao   ;D :cheers:
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2011, 04:36:54 PM »
as soon as you mentioned running it against the pool i could see where that was going..

photos would have been great!
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2011, 04:38:02 PM »
BHG stop ragging on the pool guy , hes not a bad bloke ask his wife  :cheers:
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2011, 04:50:48 PM »
Mate.  You are a legend. (You have also given me a reason to leave my two trailer loads of mulch right where they are).
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2011, 04:54:36 PM »
gravity sucks :'( so does not having a camera at moments like that >:D
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2011, 05:11:41 PM »
Eucalyptus or tea tree mulch and what colour were the stones











 :D :D :D :D
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2011, 06:09:39 PM »
Dont rud it in in doing what he did saved the birds a lot of time scratching it into the pool   :cheers:
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2011, 06:10:22 PM »
Bill
It is such a relief to find Iam not the only one to be able to soar to great heights during times of success and then plumett back to earth in a millisecond when you fall, I have learnt to be hesitent to sprook my abilities, then my achievments seem more amazing.It takes a real man to be able to admit to his goofs :cup:.
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2011, 06:12:57 PM »
Hahaha, great story Bill! We both had a good laugh here. Must be a bloke thing, i got the old "who does that remind you of?" here
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2011, 06:19:26 PM »
Could be worse. Could have been a wheelbaorrow full of fresh chook manure.
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2011, 06:20:40 PM »
Chin up tiger, it's practice to get it right next time... ;D
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2011, 06:28:04 PM »
Look on the positive side (and there generally is one), You gave your wife a laugh. The problem is you will probably never live it down.
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2011, 06:29:16 PM »
I am glad there was no video, i laughed hard enough just reading about it.
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2011, 06:58:22 PM »
you know Bill a closed mouth gathers no feet ;D

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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2011, 07:00:37 PM »
I've seen a barrow full of concrete go in one day, operator went in with it to,,no names.. :cheers:
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2011, 07:10:09 PM »
Absolute bloody Gold Bill LMFAO :cup:
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2011, 07:18:28 PM »
Hey it's all good! Better to have a go then to wonder about it.  ;D

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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #21 on: May 15, 2011, 07:20:14 PM »
You could dump 2 barrows of mulch in my pool and you wouldnt notice...
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #22 on: May 15, 2011, 08:09:52 PM »
A real zero would have seen the barrow (or you) falling the other way and taking out the pump
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #23 on: May 15, 2011, 08:41:21 PM »
Quote from: baldheadedgit on May 15, 2011, 04:29:43 PM
Forgot to ask......... How was the water Bill.... lmao   ;D :cheers:
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Re: Hero to Zero
« Reply #24 on: May 15, 2011, 09:08:49 PM »
Conversation continues,

"See Morag, it gunna be a good test of my pump rebuild skills, really it is".  :-[ :-[


 ;D ;D :cup:
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