Posted on 06/09/2015 5:58:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
What a beautiful orange boy,
So,patriotic and handsome
The vice you need is out in the parking lot.
Make an arrangement to roll a vehicle's tire over the thing you want held down, and then lift up the thing you want to bend (and break).
You might need to "sandwich" the bar with a couple of thin pieces of wood, or anything that can help you define the break area. A brick or patio paver would work, but it might be difficult to get the vehicle perched on something too high.
Precision is offered by the score marks, but you have to get support close to the mark.
Thanks, Bob, but I don’t have the muscle mass for that, these days, and most of my neighbors are older and more infirm than I am. I will continue to look for a solution that is plausible for me.
The problem, I think, is that the scores are not deep enough to do much more than just mark the spot.
So...
Right now I have Kinky Tail (ok, her official name per Mrs. NoC is Tessa - but she has a kink in the end of her tail thus gaining her nick-appellation) chasing some flavor of unseen bugthing around the room.
Or maybe it’s a microscopic space fleet...
Life as a tall person is also full of trials. Such as: It’s hard to find a man who is as tall as you and/or is willing to date you while you wear high heels.
It’s hard to kiss a date goodnight at your door when you have no step up to place him on.
It’s hard to buy one piece dresses when your torso is taller that your sister’s...
And the list goes on...
Which is exactly why my desk is so seldom clean...
Ah yes, the microscopic space fleet.
It’s why I have a lot of junk in my junk collection. An ordinary metal hinge, for example, when it is not attached to a door, would make a marvelous “sandwich” for your bracket, and would allow a fine adjustment to the score mark.
But you may not have a metal hinge. I was counting on there being a car in the parking lot, though.
Also from my junk collection, a short piece of pipe that could fit over the metal to be broken. That would give you leverage.
But again, tools. You have to work with what you have, including muscles, tools, and how to improvise for missing components of this list.
Yep. And I no longer have anyone to rely on to fill in the gaps for what I’m lacking so I feel pretty much out of my elephant. :o|
I don’t think she will eat a cheese sandwich though, so whatever it is that she thinks she sees will be pursued until its demise.
Or until it biter her if it is that sort of critter.
At least it’s not a stink bug this time.
And with that, I’m off to bed to read until my eyelids slam shut.
That’s true.
He is, isn’t he?
It would be hard for me to pick a favorite cat, but big orange tabbies would be close.
I just wish I had a cat. I’ve been so depressed lately and can’t put my finger on it. Part of it might be hormonal, part of it might be because I’m sort of lonely, and I would give anything to have a cat in my life again.
I feel rudderless, and empty, and cat less, with anhedonia. Take that DSM 5.
lol
interesting story concept
tomorrow I will post another story
Another vignette based on a longer, unfinished story, but its still my story “universe”, published or not.
Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy...
Kitty looks like a real grumpy cat. I would not want mousies on my head.
Sigh. Poor kitty.
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