Re: The Weird, the Wacky and the Wonderful
Reply #291 –
… I had a contraption much like the one pictured. And I liked it! But I had a nephew who -somehow- kept getting access to tools. Screwdrivers were a special preference to him. The one and a half inch bolts that kept my comfy rocker together disappeared - at odd intervals; eventually, there were enough of them gone — with no hope of recovery — that my chair had to be "retired".
Recently, I've noticed two things:
One, when I opened the driver's door of my coupe, the dome-light no longer went on. (I'd not — I hasten to add — decided to evade detection, as I shadowed other drivers… I'd long ago given up any and every pseudo-detective functions; I don't even serve civil process anymore.)
What had -likely- happened was, my five-year old great nephew had removed a screw… (I'd caught him using a plastic knife on the other door…and probably prevented the complete circumvention of that function.) Luckily, there were non-essential parts … I removed a screw from an already hardly functioning piece of the car's interior and fixed the problem.
Two, kids make their own rules — but they don't keep to them. Gee! Go figure…