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  • Measure twice, still get it wrong ...

    I still haven't put up curtains in my apartment; since I live 14 floors up, unless there's a rogue Superman or Spiderman out there, I'm not overly worried about privacy.

    BUT ... there is a wing of my apartment building at a 90-degree angle to the wing in which I live, and some of my neighbours spend long hours on their balcony ... from which they could (if they so wished) see right into my living room/kitchen. So okay, let's get some curtains up on the living room windows.

    Unlike other apartments, this one didn't come with curtain rods already in place, left there by a former tenant. I decided to opt for the kind that don't require screws ... you just twist them to "lock" them in place. I have no plans to put up heavy velvet curtains, so they will do.

    I measured the window and went out and bought the curtain rod.

    However ... I don't know WTF I did wrong, but the rod, even extended to its fullest, is at least four inches too short ...



    AND of course I can't find the receipt. I will probably take it back and ask if they're willing to let me exchange it for a larger one ... if they even HAVE a larger one ... but won't bet the rent money on it.

    Wish me luck.
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  • #2
    Relaying an old story.. We had a site up on the 26th floor of an office building, which had high rise apartments. Person across from the office building didn't put curtains up and had their lady friend over. Lets just say people started taking notes..

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    • #3
      The Candid Camera episode where the handyman was installing shelves in an alcove. Every time he went out to cut the shelves to length, they shifted the partition on one side...
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      • #4
        Quoth Sandman View Post
        Relaying an old story.. We had a site up on the 26th floor of an office building, which had high rise apartments. Person across from the office building didn't put curtains up and had their lady friend over. Lets just say people started taking notes..


        And management at the office building wondered why work seemed to periodically slack off to nothing ...

        Quoth dalesys View Post
        The Candid Camera episode where the handyman was installing shelves in an alcove. Every time he went out to cut the shelves to length, they shifted the partition on one side...
        I never saw that one. Personally, I'm blaming this on my cats. No reason, they're just handy.

        There's a new show on, based very much on the Candid Camera model, that's apparently filmed in Quebec, where people have (presumably) more of a sense of humour and less of a tendency to file lawsuits at the drop of a hat ...
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        • #5
          I've done this so many times that I wait a couple of days before measuring things again for the sixth or seventh time before I go out and get what is [hopefully] needed. Especially since I had gotten my front deck redone and measured several times over several days to get the right amount of stuff [hint: I didn't] to fill in what is now an extra space to make all pretty.
          Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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          • #6
            The rod even extended to its fullest is at least four inches too short...



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            • #7


              I knew I could count on you, Kit-Genevra...

              It just needs to ... stretch a bit more ...
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              • #8
                Quoth Pixelated View Post
                It just needs to ... stretch a bit more ...
                Hang a weight from it. You'll keep perfect time and can properly be addressed as a ding-dong!
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                • #9
                  Quoth Pixelated View Post
                  There's a new show on, based very much on the Candid Camera model, that's apparently filmed in Quebec, where people have (presumably) more of a sense of humour and less of a tendency to file lawsuits at the drop of a hat ...
                  Yeah it's called Just for Laughs: Gags.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth lordlundar View Post
                    Yeah it's called Just for Laughs: Gags.
                    I have variable feelings about that type of show. I remember the British version from when I was a kid had one particular set-up where the victim thought they were starting a new job in a food factory and it was set up to have food explode everywhere and they'd get berated for it.

                    Even as a kid I thought this was really unfair, and as I got older I realised that this was incredibly cruel; these people were taking an entry wage, low paid job which implied that they were on the dole or desperate for a second job to make ends meet. This means that they may have turned down other job opportunities to get this job, possibly even signed off the dole. Anyone who's been in that situation knows that it takes a while to get signed up again, so there's a good chance they were left with no money to get them through the month ahead (unless the production company gave them some money for appearing on the show after the fact, but we all know how unlikely that is).
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                    • #11
                      That type of show certainly CAN tip over into cruelty very easily. Pretending somebody's got a job and then arranging to have everything go wrong so you can yell at them? Yeah, that's not funny.

                      I don't watch Just for Laughs on anything like a regular basis, but it doesn't seem to be like that. What I've seen is just ... silly.
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                      • #12
                        Re. the OP...sometimes it's the angle of the dangle, as it were. I helped my dad put up a lot of trim in years past, like for doors and stuff.

                        And we bought extra length of trim every time, because invariably no matter how many times we checked and measured, once the angled cuts for the ends were made at least one piece was picked up, looked at, and "Crap! It's the wrong way!" was uttered.
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                        • #13
                          Quoth dalesys View Post
                          Hang a weight from it. You'll keep perfect time and can properly be addressed as a ding-dong!
                          But what to do about the groove that it's making as it drags along the floor(even with the weight removed...)
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