wives & junkyards...
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From: renfrew canada
wives & junkyards...
hi all!
learned a lesson yesterday, was bringing some scrap and unused bits back to my fave wreckin yard yesterday. figgured i'd do it on our way home from whitewater kayaking as it wasn't too far outta the way, hadto pick up a new burn barrel too, first time i ever took the wife to this place n' she fell in love with it, she eyespied a old aluminum teapot in a pile cute & ornate it was great flowerpot........and then another pot then some old steelwheels and tractorseats and steel meshing for the garden.........wellsir..........by the time we left we had more with us than we had brought in........she thought it was a great landscaping supply depot.........i'll have to stay quiet about my trips there so she don't wanna come along again and load up.....i won't have room for what i wanna bring home
mikie
near ottawa canada
58 merc panel 64 econoline p/u
learned a lesson yesterday, was bringing some scrap and unused bits back to my fave wreckin yard yesterday. figgured i'd do it on our way home from whitewater kayaking as it wasn't too far outta the way, hadto pick up a new burn barrel too, first time i ever took the wife to this place n' she fell in love with it, she eyespied a old aluminum teapot in a pile cute & ornate it was great flowerpot........and then another pot then some old steelwheels and tractorseats and steel meshing for the garden.........wellsir..........by the time we left we had more with us than we had brought in........she thought it was a great landscaping supply depot.........i'll have to stay quiet about my trips there so she don't wanna come along again and load up.....i won't have room for what i wanna bring home
mikie
near ottawa canada
58 merc panel 64 econoline p/u
old and in the way
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From: Lovely Hueytown Alabama
Mikie.....
the scrap metal god (is that Vulcan ???) has smiled down upon you. You must have accidently done something good in your life to have this rare blessing. Perhaps your recycling of his steel has pleased him.
Don't (repeat DO NOT) exclude her from your trips... this is better than an F-100 tatoo on her bicep to involve her in this project. and be sure and ask her at weigh out time "is that all you could find... maybe you should take another look... I think I saw some old plow disc in that big pile... we could make a nice turtle for your garden ???? (then do it).. you are a lucky man, Mikie... lucky man
as for having room for your stuff.... bring a trailer
later
John
(whose wife's idea of a junk yard is the clearance isle at Walmart)
the scrap metal god (is that Vulcan ???) has smiled down upon you. You must have accidently done something good in your life to have this rare blessing. Perhaps your recycling of his steel has pleased him.
Don't (repeat DO NOT) exclude her from your trips... this is better than an F-100 tatoo on her bicep to involve her in this project. and be sure and ask her at weigh out time "is that all you could find... maybe you should take another look... I think I saw some old plow disc in that big pile... we could make a nice turtle for your garden ???? (then do it).. you are a lucky man, Mikie... lucky man
as for having room for your stuff.... bring a trailer
later
John
(whose wife's idea of a junk yard is the clearance isle at Walmart)
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sweet man. cant even get my dad as excited about junk yards as me and you got your wife. if i could find someone like that maybe i could spare a little bit of time and money from the truck for a girlfriend but just maybe.lol.
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From: Auburndale, Florida
WOW! That's truly awesome. My wife is pretty good about me disappearing to work on the truck but she'll have nothing to do with a junkyard trip.
I actually have a friend who claims he got divorced over a junk yard trip. It was one of those days when you just kept finding great things that "you just had to have" and since it was a "U-Pull-it" all these things took a wee bit of time to get and he ended up staying pretty late...much later than he'd intended but he lost track of time. It hit the fan when he got home.......OOPS.....I neglected to say that it just happened to be the day of his anniversary. Hmmm...Anniversaries and junk yards don't mix very well.
Take her with you!
OilLeaks
I actually have a friend who claims he got divorced over a junk yard trip. It was one of those days when you just kept finding great things that "you just had to have" and since it was a "U-Pull-it" all these things took a wee bit of time to get and he ended up staying pretty late...much later than he'd intended but he lost track of time. It hit the fan when he got home.......OOPS.....I neglected to say that it just happened to be the day of his anniversary. Hmmm...Anniversaries and junk yards don't mix very well.
Take her with you!
OilLeaks
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From: peyton, colorado
My wife loves going to the pull a part with me. She doesn't mind getting dirty, but refuses to carry the toolbox. She flirts with the old f**t that runs the place, and makes fun of the young guys and their saggin' pants (how come you're wearing plumber pants when you're doing mechanic work?). All in all, a great junkyard partner.
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From: Spokane,WA
rhopper, your wife sounds like a hellava lotta fun, calm down cowboy, I'm a married straight broad...really...but she and I could do some serious damage as runnin' buddies. If I can go a wreckin' I'll carry the tool box for you guys...And bring lunch, anybody that dosen't appreciate a good junk/treasure/scrap/wrecking yard kinda has a screw loose, or we all do, in which case we need to stick together.
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