Poor Judgment

[Whitespider]

Last night as I was leaving work my wife called. She was in town and wondered if I wanted to stop at the local bowling ally/restaurant/pub for a bit of Happy Hour. Sure, why not? Well, we ran into a few friends and the “Hour” got a little… extended. When we arrived at home the fire had been long out, the kids were under blankets, and it was 61[sup]o[/sup] in the house. I stoked up the wood burner but the whole family was complaining, including the wife. None wanted to wait… they wanted heat now!

So anyway, I let the belly full of beer do some of my thinking for me… and… I… (this is hard to admit)… I turned on the… LP furnace for a little while. Damn poor judgment.

This morning it’s below zero outside and I didn’t reload the fire box before bed last night (another beer induced poor judgment on my part) so it’s only 64[sup]o[/sup] in the house… AND THEY WANT ME TO TURN THE FURNACE ON AGAIN!!

Poor judgment… I can see it now… every time it gets just a little chilly in here they’re gonna’ want the furnace on. Damn poor judgment. At least I’ve held them off (for now) this morning.

 

[Bushmans]

Last night as I was leaving work my wife called. She was in town and wondered if I wanted to stop at the local bowling ally/restaurant/pub for a bit of Happy Hour. Sure, why not? Well, we ran into a few friends and the “Hour” got a little… extended. When we arrived at home the fire had been long out, the kids were under blankets, and it was 61[sup]o[/sup] in the house. I stoked up the wood burner but the whole family was complaining, including the wife. None wanted to wait… they wanted heat now!

So anyway, I let the belly full of beer do some of my thinking for me… and… I… (this is hard to admit)… I turned on the… LP furnace for a little while. Damn poor judgment.

This morning it’s below zero outside and I didn’t reload the fire box before bed last night (another beer induced poor judgment on my part) so it’s only 64[sup]o[/sup] in the house… AND THEY WANT ME TO TURN THE FURNACE ON AGAIN!!

Poor judgment… I can see it now… every time it gets just a little chilly in here they’re gonna’ want the furnace on. Damn poor judgment. At least I’ve held them off (for now) this morning.

Damn beer anyways! I've been thinking about a programmable thermostat with a lock out feature bacause my family tends to get a bit lazy and instead of another log they just push the ldreaded little up arrow. I mean c'mon, I cut it, I split it, I stack it and I bring it into the house and convienentley place it within feet of the fire. That arrow is just too darn easy!

 

[atlarge54]

Ummmmm, weren't you complaining about the house being too hot last week????????????

 

[Chris-PA]

When I come down in the morning and it's 61, I think "great, not too cold, but I should fire up the stove". At 64 I may have a cup of coffee and read AS first.

 

[flyboy553]

Really, the poor judgement was driving home! Obviously you were impaired if you didn't even bother to fire up the stove last night!! lol

Ted

 

[beerman6]

:msp_angry: beer is bad.

 

[jrider]

Maybe the poorest judgement was not picking up this morning where you left off last night with the beer? LOL

 

[Whitespider]

Coffee and cold pizza this morning... I'll jump back on the beer wagon after I've moved a bit of snow and the football game comes on the tube.

As far as driving home impaired... I don't remember driving home, so I must not have... right?

 

[sbowman871]

Beer

Let's see, beer will allow you to let the fire go out. It can also lead you to run out and buy a $5 bundle at the local grocery store to impress your girl friend with a fire. I know that wasn't the case for you Spider. I've seen you inventory!

 

[ponyexpress976]

Ahhhh beer....The cause of, and solution to all of life's problems.

 

[beerman6]

HOMER!

 

[WVwoodsman]

"Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy"

 

[zogger]

"Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy"

the dood on the 100 units federal debt note

 

[Iska3]

Last night as I was leaving work my wife called. She was in town and wondered if I wanted to stop at the local bowling ally/restaurant/pub for a bit of Happy Hour. Sure, why not? Well, we ran into a few friends and the “Hour” got a little… extended. When we arrived at home the fire had been long out, the kids were under blankets, and it was 61[sup]o[/sup] in the house. I stoked up the wood burner but the whole family was complaining, including the wife. None wanted to wait… they wanted heat now!

So anyway, I let the belly full of beer do some of my thinking for me… and… I… (this is hard to admit)… I turned on the… LP furnace for a little while. Damn poor judgment.

This morning it’s below zero outside and I didn’t reload the fire box before bed last night (another beer induced poor judgment on my part) so it’s only 64[sup]o[/sup] in the house… AND THEY WANT ME TO TURN THE FURNACE ON AGAIN!!

Poor judgment… I can see it now… every time it gets just a little chilly in here they’re gonna’ want the furnace on. Damn poor judgment. At least I’ve held them off (for now) this morning.

As a retired foster parent who raised 20 some kids and two of our own, I heard a lot of stories like this one.

 

[Gavman]

Go out to the property line right away and dig up the pipe with an excavator, dont worry about bursting it, the utility company will then come and charge you a flat rate for the call out, get them to cap it and bury the thing again, consider the charge the price you pay for your stupidity, then get back in the house

 

[branchbuzzer]

This morning it’s below zero outside and I didn’t reload the fire box before bed last night (another beer induced poor judgment on my part) so it’s only 64[sup]o[/sup] in the house… AND THEY WANT ME TO TURN THE FURNACE ON AGAIN!!

Poor judgment… I can see it now… every time it gets just a little chilly in here they’re gonna’ want the furnace on. Damn poor judgment. At least I’ve held them off (for now) this morning.

Rig up a coin-slot activated furnace. Then you can just point to the vending-machine and say, "Feed the Beast". That'll fix that action right quick.

 

[beagle69]

How Hard ???

I have been known to tipple as well,,,but how hard is it to start a fire??

Is your wood shed 100yds away,no kindling,have you got a rock in your shoe??

Jim

 

[Whitespider]

Read it again... I DID START THE FIRE!
The family didn't want to wait the 2 or so hours it would take my little wood furnace to get the house up to 70[sup]o[/sup].
And then I didn't reload the firebox before bed, so the house cooled off again overnight.

 

[hanniedog]

Sorry to say Whitespider you must surrender your man card to the shredder.

 

[Whitespider]

As a retired foster parent who raised 20 some kids and two of our own, I heard a lot of stories like this one.

Maybe you should just come out and say directly what you're thinking instead of making cryptic comments from your glass house...
Then I could come out directly and tell you exactly where to shove it.


Christ man, the daughter is 15 and knows how to put wood in the furnace... she's just toooooooo lazy, and knows I'll do it when I get home. Both the wife and I carry cell phones and she could've called us anytime she wanted (and by-the-way, we called her twice, once to check-in and once to get the pizza order). And I seriously don't think that 61[sup]o[/sup] is "neglect" or "abuse" (and I couldn't give less of a crap what you or anyone else thinks)... Good lord, that's warmer than the school is on real cold days!