Words you don't want to hear.

This baby cradle was sitting on the floor of the closet and I think someone stepped on it. Can you fix it please.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

“can you build me a snowboard next?” lol

I think I’ve uttered the “tried to fix it myself” statement a few times…

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

“Honeeey?” “Now promise me you won’t get mad.”

-or-

“Your tablesaw accidentally fell out of the truck.” “You can hammer that dent out.”

-and-

“Those Freud saw blades of yours don’t hold up to nails very well…What junk!”

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Yeah, I was thinking of, “I think someone stepped on it.”

I’ve gotten the, “It just broke,” about a chair my brother brought over. It looked like it just broke after he backed over it with his truck.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

” I could have got Joe down the street to do that for half that much!”

-- Thos. Angle

lol
there was a cute commercial on TV this past spring about stains that miraculously appeared on carpets and couches.. I had to laugh every time I saw it—nobody knew how the stains got there!! Well, maybe the dog did because I think he got “blamed” for some of them. Shame on that dog for spilling his glass of wine! :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Some of these make you laugh out loud… but others could make a grown man cry.

-- Dave Idaho

I could fill the stomach acid build with Tom’s comment.

Non-woodworking but nonetheless aurally repugnant:
We can’t turn your rotors any thinner, you’ll need new ones (Don’t ya just love the brake job racket).

Another one, “We can do that, but it’s gonna cost ya.”

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

From your spouse looking over your shoulder (after hours of labor):

“Is this supposed to look like that?”

<sigh>...

-- Robert from Raymond, MS. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not a practice, but a habit." - Aristotle

LOL Digger

How about . . .

After you have finished the project they say “The cabinet is 34 1/8” wide ?? I said I needed it 38 1/4” wide !!”

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

“I was talking to your wife and she said you could . . . . . “

“

-- Paul, Texas

ha… reminds me of Tom’s feedback—it would look nice with a plant in it.. (or something like that).

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

When submitting a bid or quote that you have chopped down to making a little below minimum wage on you hear….”Your kidding, Right?” In the tone that says way to high priced for me.

“Can I borrow your (insert expensive power tool)? I never used one, but it looks pretty simple.”

Of course, you KNOW what my answer is!

-- Orv

Oh yeah, my wife will come down to the shop and say, “Are you going to sand that?”

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Your significant other saying “I’ve never see that (insert the new tool here) before. Where is the box….

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

“Hey dad, I moved your built-in fireplace!”

Then there’s the time I found my tablesaw out in the rain. “We were cutting outside because Mom dosen’t like the dust in the house.”

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

............from your spouse “Why does it take so much expensive wood.” But I really need more storage space.

-- Neal Meyers Jr

ditto on several of the above…

and to add

“Sigh… Do you really have everything you need to do this project?”...

how much is it going to cost?

why do we need “fill in the blanck” <—>s own sake, or something just waiting to fall apart, and take somebody with it – like replacing the severely rotted (and only staying in place out of habit) porch floor.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

“I know you “Can” build it but when will it be done?”

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

Drew -

Your comment reminds me of the Handyman service slogan I read in a quote source:

“I can do anything your husband can do, only I’ll do it now.”

-- Paul, Texas

Scottb… when I say I have to go to the Depot (again) literally there are days when my kids are tired or whatever and they will actually start crying… (5 and 8 year old girls) They know where everything is there. I can send the 8 year old to get something by herself and she can find pretty much whatever they have that I need. The employees there (many of them) know the kids by name. (My brother was the assistant manager there for 5 years until about 3 years ago)

Drew

-- Drew, Pleasant Grove, Utah

Woodworking related:
“You can’t buy that (insert expensive tool here) right now it’s too close to Christmas” the preceding phrase has been used by my wife in July and in November.

Not woodworking related:
“The doctor needs to talk to you in person regarding your test results”

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

This has been said to me more than once: “Oh I didn’t know you worked in wood. Would a cherry/walnut tree have been any use to you? We had one felled & they took it away” Damn!

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems