I need a Truck!

I don't have anything new - that I can think of, but here is a rather amusing story from a while ago that I never shared because well – I kind of wasted money. When I say kind of – I mean I should have taken the 7 dollars and 34 cents and donated it to the Chicago Bears to recruit in a decent quarterback. ;)

Anyway – it all started with a simple Pinterest idea. A woman took a picture of her family and got the picture enlarged by ordering it as an engineer print. The quality isn’t top notch and it has to be black and white – but hers looked really good! She made it sound incredibly easy, so I figured it was something I could handle! The following day I go online and find a place that does engineer prints, and order 2 pictures in the largest size they have – 3 feet by 4 feet.

In the time I spent waiting for the pictures to come in – I have read more and more stories on different ways people have mounted engineer prints. Many had somehow glued it onto wood, but when pricing wood – I figured there had to have been a cheaper way! I ran across one who said they glued it onto Styrofoam, being Styrofoam is cheaper I headed into The Home Depot! (It’s funny how everyone is suddenly busy when I walk in. For some reason they don’t appreciate walking around with me for an hour while I pull up Pinterest Ideas on my phone and ask them what I would need in order to ‘make this’ or ‘make that.’ Most all of the time, I realize I don’t have any of the tools that would be needed to actually complete any of the projects, so I leave empty handed and they had wasted an hour of their lives.)

Well this time I was on a mission – I walk over and pick up a piece of their finest Styrofoam. Actually it wasn’t their finest - it was 4 foot by 8 foot and kind of beat up so I talked them down in price. After I got the price down I asked if they could cut it in half for me and I was on my way. I was pretty excited as I headed out to my car. I remember thinking how great it would be to finish up a project that had been taking up a lot of room in my apartment and how I talk them down in price LIKE A BOSS!

As I approach my car – that feeling quickly fades. Reality sinks in that I drive a little 2 door Cobalt. I must have tried for a good 5 minutes to get that Styrofoam in my car – and I probably would have tried longer if I hadn’t noticed that car that decided watching me suffer was more fun that going on their merry little way. (BTW I would NOT be surprised if there is a YouTube video out there about the girl who didn’t give up trying to get 2 oversized pieces of damn Styrofoam in her car!) By this time myself, my car, and the parking lot were completely COVERED in Styrofoam pieces. So I took the Styrofoam in both hands, give it a good hard whack against my knee, and threw it in my trunk! I got in my car, drove back to the apartment, opened the trunk and unloaded the Styrofoam right out into the dumpster!

I got back into my apartment – nailed the sheets of paper to the wall – put my feet up and called it good!