Saturday, 02 July 2005

Lesson to be learned from Thursday: too much chinking isn't a good thing.

The Major General Music learned an interesting, though seldom-used skill in his work at Peaceful Acres Resort. Per the instructions of the resort high command, he and the Angela took up chinking the side of one of the cabins at the resort. Little did the Major General Music know what would lie in store for him...

Chinking isn't a fun activity. It's boring. It can be frustrating. It's time-consuming. And it is MESSIER than, well, you know. As the Major General Music discovered, it can also be dangerous.

Chinking is similar to caulking, only it's on a much larger scale. The chinking material doesn't come in nice cute little tubes like caulk. The gun isn't very small. No no no, chinking material comes in big buckets that are very heavy to move around when they are full. The chinking gun is several times the size of a caulking gun and takes much more effort to load. It made me thankful that I spent a little time in the weight room at WSCC and was previously-limbered up. The material smells like motor oil and has that same gritty feeling that cookie dough has when the butter and sugar mix is concentrated in one spot. To top it off, it's quite squishy.

Depending on where you choose to go a-chinking, it can also be dangerous. The Major General Music didn't think too much of it when the Angela accidentally placed the telescoping 18-foot ladder backwards against the cabin. However, it would throw off his footing enough to create hazard. Attached to the ladder was a rope pulley. The rope just dangled along the steps of the ladder. Backwards + rope + nervous Major General Music = very much badness. While the Major General Music was up on the ladder firing the chinking gun at the cabin and the Angela was up on the famous resort STEP, the Major General Music decided to change plans. "Ha," thought the General, "I can reach that spot from the ground and the chinking gun is almost empty anyway, meaning I must reload it soon." So the Major General Music begins to descend the backwards-facing ladder on the reversed steps with the rope right along his foot. Thinking the distance to the ground was short, the Major General Music chooses to step all the way down when he should not. This led to the Major General Music losing his balance, swinging the chinking gun into the ground, and the whole lot (save the ladder) falling to the ground in an unpleasant *THUD!*

The Angela turned and asked, "Are you all right? You could have bumped down the hill, bounced along the beach, and splashed right into the lake!"

"Nope."

"Well that would have been more interesting. Did that rope throw off your footing?"

"Probably."

So there you go, folks. The Major General Music has had his second moment of comedic stupidity in falling off a ladder. The first wasn't so much comedic and just shocking in running over a PVC cap with a lawnmower at Willow by the Lake Resort. Thankfully the kind owner did smile and say it was no problem. But this second moment has to be more interesting because it was falling off a ladder. It has to be funnier.

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Comments(3)

good thing you weren't hurt, that would've been very very bad......

Loryns_Goobers

I bet you can't wait to chink some more after that exhilarating experience. If you had been hurt it would have been very much badness. I would have to completely train a new assistant- how inconvenient!

chickenlittle27

Too bad for you!

Major_General_Music