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tape measure - tablesawtom - 06-12-2020
I was asked to help take a measurement with a tape measure today and was asked if I wanted the smart end or the stupid end. Since I didn't care what the measurement was I opted for the stupid end. Anyway we laughed for quite awhile. Then it would be brought up again and then some more laughter. Then I said the next time I involved my wife helping me by holding the tape measure, I was going to say here you hold the stupid end. He said I didn't have the balls, so if I am no longer on the forum you will know what happened to me .
Tom
RE: tape measure - Stwood_ - 06-12-2020
(06-12-2020, 06:36 PM)tablesawtom Wrote: I was going to say here you hold the stupid end. He said I didn't have the ball, so if I am no longer on the forum you will know what happened to me .
Tom
Yea..............oops!!
RE: tape measure - Bucko - 06-18-2020
Lol, not so easy. I had my wife hold the tagged stupid end for a piece of trim measurement. It came up 1/4” short and I checked my cut which was correct. Seems she held her end of the tape measure 1/4” out from where it should have been against the wall corner.
RE: tape measure - TomFromStLouis - 06-24-2020
My old man was a structural engineer and once had to measure an existing building with his 150' tape measure. You can be sure his sidekick (me) got a lesson in holding the stupid end before we went to work.
That was your error Bucko: no lesson on holding the stupid end.
RE: tape measure - Tony Z - 06-24-2020
(06-24-2020, 07:41 AM)TomFromStLouis Wrote: My old man was a structural engineer and once had to measure an existing building with his 150' tape measure. You can be sure his sidekick (me) got a lesson in holding the stupid end before we went to work.
That was your error Bucko: no lesson on holding the stupid end.
When first out of college, I worked for a land surveyor. You can bet your arse that I was instructed (and re-instructed) on how to hold the dumb end (along with how to put witness marks on trees, pounding in markers, etc.).