The first GRIP RITE D-i-v-o-r-c-e

[welsummerchicks]

I had bought some Grip Rite Fasteners for the roofing felt for our coop. After looking at them for a while I decided they were going to be a royal pain. So I watched some videos of people installing roofs and they were STAPLING the roofing felt ond it appeared to take about 2.5 seconds per side. SO I discussed with my EX HUSBAND...no...not yet EX. BUT OH BOY. Noooo....he wasn't INTERESTED in the staples! Staples are problems. And I realized, knowing full well, that if he DOESN'T LIKE something, there is no point in trying to do it, he will be over there mewling like a newborn...oh....the stapler isn't working right BLAH BLAH BLAH. So I priced some better staplers and finally said, aw forget it I'm not going to spend more money on another staple gun....so I start putting up the felt with the GRIP RITE fasteners which look like nails with great big orange plastic buttons on them.

So I did the WHOLE one side of the roof with those $*$(_#@_)@!@ GRIP RITE fasteners, now I am sitting here watching South Park with a bag of ice on my arm, and I feel like I just pitched nine innings of major league heat on that arm and I HATE GRIP RITE FASTENERS!!!!!!!!

The whole day gone! I thought with the stapler the roofing felt would be like tra la la la la and just WALTZ over and slap all those shingles on! BUT NO!

You can slam on them for HOURS and they won't go in! Of course it works if you angle them a little bit YOU CAN'T SEE THE ANGLE DUE TO THE ORANGE PLASTIC BUTTON!!!!!! And the way he cut the decking it VIBRATES so much when you try to drive them in that it is about IMPOSSIBLE TO DRIVE THEM IN!!!! So I would be slamming away on them so hard I had big beads of sweat popping out on my forehead and was slamming those things so hard I actually was getting nauseated in the heat! I was soaked with sweat up there just trying to get those WE ARE BETTER OFF WITH THESE &(*$(#P#@! GRIP RITE FASTENERS IN TO THE WOOOOOOD!!!! I DESPISE THEM!!!

So I am almost done, I have the LAST one I have been beating up and pulling out and getting a fresh grip rite fastener for about TWENTY MINUTES AND HE HANDS ME THE NAIL GUN and says, 'HERE, Try this' and it slammed that &*&$(#U(J# Grip Rite fastener in 1 second. I was like AAAAAAAAFHGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! (or course I tried it on the next one and it bent it over sideways and I had to spend ten min pulling THAT ONE OUT!).

So....we have a big storm coming tomorrow and NO shingles up, and I read on www.burningbed.com that IT IS OK TO MURDER YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER IF HE DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

OH! I forgot to mention he cut a couple big holes in the floor, and I had to replace a whole huge part of it and that blew basically an entire day. PLUS the way he cut my rafters I decided I had to swap out my osb for plywood and THAT took a little time TOO!!!!!!

(ps, this is all in gest, I have no plans to murder him YET, but I WAS sitting up on the extension ladder SEETHING with these GRIP RITE fasteners! I WANT MY STAPLES!)

 

[BloominOrchid]

You know what ticked my soon to be ex off, when he came to get the kids and saw how much I had done in the house WITH OUT HIM!
This Jack had left project in every room, 80-90% finished. And when he opted to trade in his wife & 3 kids (one was 2 months old) for a "lovely 23yr old" he left the house like that.
I am now the stronger one, I patch roofs I build coops, I just dont have time to wait for someone to finish it one day.... So now I do it!
I hear ya, hang in there, and add some drink to that ice

 

[True Grit]

If you glance over at him and catch him trying to hide a little smirk behind his hand or beer, then I believe you have a possible legal defense to taking him out.

 

[coloradochick]

 

[ranchhand]

I needed cheering up and you did it, thank you! I have learned the while DH may be a painter/punch man for a big construction company, he doesn't know jack about carpentry or joinery - despite the fact that he thinks he does!

Pulling nails? The trick is to use a "cat's paw" and a small block of wood for leverage.

ROCKIN' WOMEN UNITED BY HAMMERS!

 

[EweSheep]

We women CAN do things if we got a mind to do it!

Kudos Welsummer, you CAN do it without murdering your soon to be ex! Tell him to get a grip and put on some big boy's pants! next time, get staples!

 

[welsummerchicks]

YOU KNOW WHY HE THOUGHT IT WAS OK TO CUT HOLES IN THE FLOOR??????? 'Well, since it was plywood, I thought it was ok!'

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING I SAID?????? "DO NOT CUT ANY HOLES IN THE FLOOR'.

So I reiterated after that, 'WE DO NOT CUT HOLES IN ANYTHING THAT IS **** PAINTED ***** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

GAAAAAHHHHHHH!

 

[HennyJenny]

I bet if we took a poll those who threatened or thought about divorce or bodily harm during chicken coop building of any kind would outnumber those who worked well together 100 to 1 and the one is probably a liar or heavily medicated

It disturbs my husband but I never ask for advice I don't want nor take advice I didn't ask for

All results of that are my problem and never once have I said (outloud) "Well why didn't you tell me that!" Kick him off the project - you will work harder but you will stay married longer, be more sane, and it will be done the way you want it. And no matter how vulgar or immature it is - fantasizing about making certain hand gestures provides some degree of satisfaction. (I never actually do it - the kids might see). I feel certain that since you are watching Southpark you will not be offended at the thought of a vulgar gester

 

[Cetawin]

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Scream PMS and PTSD....PMS self-explanatory and PTSD brought on by the trauma of having to continue to deal with him which also constitutes mental cruelty. Ask for an all woman jury, over 30 years old is even better....you would get acquitted.

 

[breezy]

I took a roasted chicken carcass and my husband out to my girls. They went at it like a pack of starving wolverines and had it picked clean in about 10 minutes flat. My husband was flat out astounded by how fast they cleaned those bones. I calmly told him that the next time he annoyed me I was going to leave his carcass for the chickens to pick clean then scatter his bones across the western united states. Should have seen the look on his face as I walked away chuckling. Sometimes Im just evil