One Person’s History of Failures

[Jeff H]

...........We live in the era of instant gratification,...................

And the expectation that you are immediately available to anyone else with a phone and a perceived need for your personal attention, at any time of day or day of the week..........

Whether you brood over your phone or simply use it like a necessary tool, the pervasive attitude affects everyone in one way or another.

 

[freebullet]

Huh, when you enumerate it in a list like that it makes us sound bad. Someone said 6months, lol...it took 3 years to redo a couple here due to frustration shelving. If we didn't didn't do this, what would we do?

 

[Ian]

Hang out in bars or play golf I guess.

 

[fiver]

I ain't playin golf.
I'd be spendin more time fishin, which is just as bad and about as costly.

 

[Cherokee]

I guess I'm "normal" like the rest of you. One thing I have realized in my later years, I spent much too much time at the bench searching for the "accurate" handgun load when I should just have been learning practical shooting - but it was/is fun.

 

[Bret4207]

#5 for sure. My biggest problem. Too many projects, too many "To fix problem A, I have to do B, and to fix B I have to do C+D which require me do E,F,G,H and I, and before any of that I have to finish projects 235, 678 and 195,876 so I can get to the area I need to work in! But before that I have to do what my wife needs done and then watch the kids!"

 

[RBHarter]

Brett this is exactly what happens to me .
72% of the time the side track involves correction of "C" which requires tool "D3" that needs to be sharpened , reassembled , repaired or has gone completely of the grid only to be found exactly where it supposed to be about 4 hrs after the replacement is in hand .......now I have 3 "D3"s and a repair kit and the original repair/correction of "C" has wandered in favor of item #266 to complete Honey Do 3A that covers #2,5,&16 and gets 1-3 off the personal list .......wait why is there water on the ceiling ?

 

[Bret4207]

Oh boy! So I'm not the only guy that spends hours or days looking for a tool I know I put RIGHT THERE!, and then ends up running to town and buying a new one ( or ordering it on line after spending 3 days looking for the best price if it's a high dollar item) only to have the original tool appear RIGHT THERE WHERE I LEFT IT! 5 minutes after the new tool shows up? It's like I'm cursed. The major player in this line for me has been 1/2 or larger hammer drills (drill motors to be exact, not bits) I've had a ratty old Makita 1/2" model I bought from a friend (Steve D if Chris is reading this) over 25 years back after he broke it. I fixed it and it's been sitting in it's spot forever. Then I ran onto a heck of a deal on a 5/8" Makita hammer drill for $69.00 at a lumber yard going out of business. Great rig, really nice. It disappeared about 3 months after I took it out of the box. I've looked everywhere and asked everyone I know if I loaned to to them. No joy. So I go to get another 5/8" Makita hammer drill and find out they run well over $150. Searched and searched and finally bought a Porter Cable 1/2" on sale at TSC. Drilled 6 holes with it and it disappeared!!!! Seriously, it's ridiculous.

 

[Pistolero]

I have a hangar, a shop, a home and a vacation home.......tools could, at least theoretically,
be at any one of them. Fortunately 3 are within a 20 minute drive of each other, but boy,
sometimes it is hard to figure out where some damned tool that I KNOW I have has gotten
off to. Glad to hear it isn't just me.

Bill

 

[smokeywolf]

Oh boy! So I'm not the only guy that spends hours or days looking for a tool I know I put RIGHT THERE!

During the last half dozen years or so in the studio machine shop, I can't tell you how many times I needed a tool from the tool crib and by the time I had walked to the tool crib (about 10 seconds) forgotten what tool I had come to get.
At home, it's more a matter of "where did I see that tool?".

 

[Spindrift]

In my reloading rom, I try to keep things organized by putting everything on top. However, it seems the tool I need always is at the bottom of the pile.

 

[Ian]

I'm already having to invest in duplicates of certain things between the reloading room and shop, which are two doors and 20 feet from each other. high-quality digital calipers and 0-1" micrometer are the two things that are ALWAYS in the wrong place when I need them.