You can't say the old phrase for this, but it's when some generic mechanic spends 2 hours "rigging" something so it will just barely kinda sorta work instead of spending what would usually be less time and energy to fix it right.
Unfortunately, my father is a ninja rigging master and occasionally this is the cause of some conflict... :shock:
Like when he tied down a load of pole barn sheet metal using an intricate web of used bailer twine. Why would anyone do this? Because he was afraid the steel would cut into his ratchet straps, so why use them?
Sadly there could be but one outcome. He promptly dumped the whole load out the back of his pickup when exiting too fast from a stop sign and his whole twine string rigging job came undone.
Luckily I was the one following him, but the fun didn't end there. He had his cell phone on vibrate so, despite the fact that I called him 117 times in 10 minutes, he still drove the full half hour back to the farm and then sat there for 20 minutes with his thumb up his ratchet strap wondering what was taking ME so long. So he finally called me...
So when he finally got back to the spot where another helpful motorist had helped me pile up a stack of now beat-to-sh!t steel in the ditch, well, I had a little meltdown.
Look, I'm not proud of this next part, but I grabbed the only thing that came to hand in the back seat of my truck and started pummeling my father about the head and shoulders. Luckily for both of us, that object was a large, 4 foot long, yellow, fuzzy stuffed banana that my kids "won" at the school carnival.
So just to recap, there I was in the ditch of a highway pummeling my father with a large, stuffed banana. As you can imagine, the police were called... Luckily, I had recovered by the time they arrived and was able to tell the officer with a straight face that that report was just pure crazy. I mean, who would DO that????
Good thing I had a tarp to hide the offending banana or I'd still be locked up.
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