tiredmommy
Well-Known Member
How I've spent my Saturday. 
We need new storm doors (front & back), and husband decided to go to Home Depot to pick them up today, plus buy a power washer as our old one died last year.
Neither of us has a truck, but my back seat folds down, so his theory was that the doors would slide in, we'd tie down the hood of the trunk and I'd slowly drive home. We would do this after Duckie's dance class and Duckie would ride home with husband and the power washer. He said he measured the trunk to verify the doors would fit before I left for dance.
Most men should never be allowed to measure anything. I have a theory about why so many men think something measures bigger than it really is, but I can't print it here. Let's just say it boils down to wishful thinking.
So we meet up at Home Depot (which I despise, but that's another story) and make our door selections based on husband's measurements. It's 12:15pm. We pay for everything and make our way to the parking lot. husband gets the power washer in his car and heads over to mine. The backseat is turned down and bungee cords are ready. husband pops the trunk and exclaims "Oh %$&#!!! I didn't realize your trunk had a one and a half inch bump-in on each side."
You read that right: the trunk (which he measured!) is a full 3 inches narrower than his measurement. Why? Because he measured the outside of the lid rather than the interior of the trunk.
So we head back inside to see if we can arrange delivery. Have you ever tried to get assistance at Home Depot at 12:30pm on a Saturday afternoon. It took an hour before husband managed to return to doors, repurchase and and put in an order for delivery. We didn't even know when they would be delivered by the time we left the store, though the store did call with a delivery date and time right about the time we got home.
But wait! It doesn't end there...
I jokingly asked husband over dinner if he had verified the measurements of both doors before he left. He assured me they were both a standard 36"x80" door. I asked him if that meant he measured them.
No. He hadn't measured both, only the front door.
The back door is 32"x80".
We need new storm doors (front & back), and husband decided to go to Home Depot to pick them up today, plus buy a power washer as our old one died last year.
Neither of us has a truck, but my back seat folds down, so his theory was that the doors would slide in, we'd tie down the hood of the trunk and I'd slowly drive home. We would do this after Duckie's dance class and Duckie would ride home with husband and the power washer. He said he measured the trunk to verify the doors would fit before I left for dance.
Most men should never be allowed to measure anything. I have a theory about why so many men think something measures bigger than it really is, but I can't print it here. Let's just say it boils down to wishful thinking.
So we meet up at Home Depot (which I despise, but that's another story) and make our door selections based on husband's measurements. It's 12:15pm. We pay for everything and make our way to the parking lot. husband gets the power washer in his car and heads over to mine. The backseat is turned down and bungee cords are ready. husband pops the trunk and exclaims "Oh %$&#!!! I didn't realize your trunk had a one and a half inch bump-in on each side."
You read that right: the trunk (which he measured!) is a full 3 inches narrower than his measurement. Why? Because he measured the outside of the lid rather than the interior of the trunk.
So we head back inside to see if we can arrange delivery. Have you ever tried to get assistance at Home Depot at 12:30pm on a Saturday afternoon. It took an hour before husband managed to return to doors, repurchase and and put in an order for delivery. We didn't even know when they would be delivered by the time we left the store, though the store did call with a delivery date and time right about the time we got home.
But wait! It doesn't end there...
I jokingly asked husband over dinner if he had verified the measurements of both doors before he left. He assured me they were both a standard 36"x80" door. I asked him if that meant he measured them.
No. He hadn't measured both, only the front door.
The back door is 32"x80".
