My Dad fell down the stairs naked and landed in my mom’s sisters special spot.
My Dad fell down the stairs naked and landed in my mom’s sisters special spot.
“What are you doing, bro-in-law?”
Woopsie, happens even to the best of us. Can’t do much about 🤷
Tesla hired the lowest bidder from a different county to do my roof for $8k
3 years later I’ve got a few quotes all over $20k each to redo their bad work and $8k in repairs. They are evaluating their options.
Not my current house but previous one. 15 days before we gave over possession, there must have been a loud bang or something that scared the dog about 15 minutes before I woke up, he climbed onto the toilet and turned on the bidet and flooded the lower floor.
That was damn expensive to fix properly for the next people.
Getting cats. Well, not the home itself, but everything in it.
Did you get tigers, or what?
They did say, “Cats” (plural). Which begs the question: How many average house cats = 1 average tiger?
By mass, around 50 or so.
Trusting the home inspector that said the roof wouldn’t need to be replaced for at least another couple years.
Mine too! There’s slight water damage to the bottom kitchen cabinets and wooden floors, that we can for too fix, as water slowly leaked down the walls, but at least we got new roof, windows and doors.
I’ve been dreaming of new windows (century+ old home) but the prices are insane around me. Nothing like fresh air in the spring & early fall
Lightning struck my late father’s homemade CB radio antenna back in the early 90’s. It made the antenna explode, and fried around 3/4 of every electronic device in the house ☹️
Thankfully the refrigerator survived at least, and of course thankfully the house didn’t burn down.
If he had only properly grounded his antenna and CB radio…
Huh, I was told a story of my father in law having the same thing happen to him, but luckily for them it only burned the electronics that were plugged into the antenna, and one tv that was too close to a radio that also got screwed up. Never got to meet the man though, unfortunately.
Holy shit who doesn’t ground their fancy new lightning rod 😅
My late father was a bit weird and eccentric. He built his custom CB antenna around PVC plastic tubing. Yeah it worked, hell he could communicate around 300 miles radius from the home base.
It worked, until it stopped working…
We ended up scavenging as many pieces of the PVC as we could, to reassemble it as a superglue/jigsaw puzzle haha!
My sister burned her apartment down by leaving a portable battery bank plugged in and charging. Luckily the reason she wasn’t home at the time of the fire was because she was bringing the cat to a cat sitter, or else the cat would’ve been cooked too.
Be careful with portable battery banks folks! Don’t leave them unattended!
Not immediately throwing my clothes in a wash and showering when I got home like usual. That small mistake resulted in a months long battle with bedbugs. Never again.
Frozen pipe burst over my bedroom as a kid. I don’t even know how much it cost to repair and to replace everything that was ruined.
My nephew (it was my own damn fault for leaving the equipment set up because I was halfway done with a project) siphoned 55 gallons of water from an aquarium I was building into the carpet.
And that’s the story of how I learned to do flooring and replaced the carpet in my home office with linoleum so that the next time something like that happens it’s non issue.
The ceiling caving over the dining room was pretty bad. Right below my childhood bedroom too, so I had nightmares for a while.
Nothing too wild happened at my current place besides a pipe leaking while I was away for work. Landlord fixed the pipe but didn’t clean up the water. Came home after a month to the saddest kitchen you ever saw
Oak tree. Destroys slabs like no other.
Her name was Jessica.
Happy cake day!
Do you miss her?
Happy cake day !
Shortly after we moved in, someone was taking a shower in our second-floor bathroom, the bottom of the shower cracked, and they didn’t notice. End result was an entire shower’s worth of water draining out the bottom of the shower, flowing about 10 feet inside the first-floor ceiling, draining down through the hole from a light fixture, across the kitchen floor, down through the kitchen floor into the basement ceiling, soaking into a bunch of exposed insulation, and making that insulation collapse onto the (concrete) basement floor.
Not damage but the most entertaining, terrifying, and educational event - I made a mango soda, fermented it with some ginger beer and it was lazy getting fizzy so I bottled, refrigerated and promptly forgot about it. Found it a few weeks later and figured since it wasn’t fizzy ok to open.
Mango soda on the floor, walls, ceiling of three adjacent rooms. It exploded up but did not break the glass bottle. The second one I opened outside facing away from me and got to taste the small amount that remained in the bottle - probably the best drink I have ever made, all lost due to my negligence.
