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[fileg]

I had a "bad technology" day on Friday...

Having repleced the doorknob in the bedroom (honestly, how cheap is this apartment? have any of you ever worn out a doorknob? as in metal fatigue?) he has been installing a new faucet in the kitchen all day. (He is currently in the un-installing it again phase

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[persephonesbear]

Home repairs must be in the air - we fixed a leaky sink and a couple of lighting fixtures over the weekend. I had to replace a door knob once because a key broke in it, but you mean the knob-thing snapped off the stem-thing?

The idea of hurtling down an icy track in something reminiscent of a coffin is pretty freaky. Thanks for the image!

[fileg]

a metal ring in the rigging on the shankless side wore through, and the knob on the side fell off

Luge is still my favorite - someone on my list was contemplating the creation of luge the other night:

Franz! Lets dress in very very tight laytex and lie upon each other while we hurtle blindly downhill at 150 miles an hour, feeling the vibration throught our bodies...and steering with our hips!

No wonder it's my favorite!

[leemoyer]

Quite a bookend to Murder on the Two Man Luge.
Now you just need to see the pizza delivery part of the sequel...

[euclase]

Wowee, your icon is great!

(sorry, didn't mean to jump in there, lol)

[notarysojac]

We have somewhere a photo of Lee looking almost like that icon. We refer to it as "The Amadeus Poster Child."

[leemoyer]

Thanks, I made it myself.
Feel free to use it (witht credit) if you wish. :)

[euclase]

We replaced one once when the knob rigging (check out my mad vocab skillz, fo shizzle) inside the door itself broke from wear, and I was actually trapped in my bedroom for about three hours while my dad went to buy a replacement and had to dismantle the broken doorknob with a hacksaw to get it apart.

I think maybe it left me traumatized. :)

[fileg]

On Friday, after Jim went to work, I woke up and saw the door closed, and thought he had closed me in the trap as well, and I would have to call him to come home at lunch time and release me - but when I sat up I realized I could see the hallway when I wasn't trying to look through the bookcase.

And then, when I got up, I discovered I had the knob with the shank on my side anyway, so if I had called him, all he could have done would have been to stand outside the door and yell directions at me (now turn the knob...no, turn it....)

[caligaridc]

The kitchen/deck door in my apartment sometimes... sticks. One day, while trying to close it from the outside by pulling it shut, the knob, half of it, came off in my hands and i launched across the porch backwards. The next day, trying to pull it open from the inside, my friend had the misfortune of the door knob, just half of it, coming off in her hands - launching her with full force in to me, which knocked me backwards in to Dennis - causing a horrible domino efffect that took out half the kitchen. It was an ugly, yet beautiful sight.

[fileg]

Hope no one was irreparably damaged!

Kitchen disasters seem to be the best in retrospect - possibly the setting just has so much potential for disaster that one cannot help but take the challenge.

Chris's brother trying to extinguish an M80 in the sink is still my favorite.

Ours is tame since we averted disaster, but tying in to the theme of how cheapass my apartment complex is. It concerns a fourth of July when Jim climbed up to retrieve a piece of crockery that stands on top of the over the sink cabinets, and discovered that our cabinets were about a quarter inch away from the wall - seems they had been HUNG (yes, as in load bearing) with finishing nails...

[notarysojac]

and one or two of the 2" finishing nails along the 8' length of cabinet were actually in studs. The other half dozen were simply in the plasterboard.