for anyone who hasn't noticed, i've had black duck tape holding the drivers' side rear window of my jeep together for several months. some f**ktard cut it open instead of just unzipping it, or (this is really a stretch, but go with it) instead of opening my unlocked doors to get inside. as the man at the upholstery place said, "if they were smart, they wouldn't be a criminal" (i beg to differ, being both brilliant and an occasional criminal).
on a suggestion from a co-worker, today i took the boobicon to an upholstery place to be repaired. she's had to endure the indignity of driving around town with a ghetto duck-taped side window for several months now, so it's the least i can do. the guy there was great, and told me that if i cleaned off the tape and glue residue, he'd sew it together for half the price he originally quoted me. BONUS!!! off to home depot i went for Goo Gone (aka citrus-scented petroleum distillate) and some latex gloves.
on a suggestion from a co-worker, today i took the boobicon to an upholstery place to be repaired. she's had to endure the indignity of driving around town with a ghetto duck-taped side window for several months now, so it's the least i can do. the guy there was great, and told me that if i cleaned off the tape and glue residue, he'd sew it together for half the price he originally quoted me. BONUS!!! off to home depot i went for Goo Gone (aka citrus-scented petroleum distillate) and some latex gloves.
back at the ranch, i put on my gloves, assemble my equipment, and get to gone-ing some goo. the tape i had used to keep the window together wasn't technically duck tape, it was gorilla tape, which is like duck tape, but stronger in the same proportion
as an actual gorilla to an actual duck. and it had been on for most of the summer, so it was right slimy...so slimy that the latex gloves were completely worthless (you can see it stuck to the goo).they came off, and my hands got sticky.
as i was pulling the tape off (it's not screwing around--there's a reason it kept the window together at 85mph), things got ugly. i knocked my diet coke off the counter and spilled it all over the carpet, stuck the window to the countertop, got glue in my hair, etc.
so i'm pulling tape off, and scrubbing the glue with goo gone and a rag, and pulling more tape, making an unholy mess of things. as i'm pulling the last of the tape off of the bottom of the window,
I FIND A DEAD SNAKE stuck IN the glue. a dead snake. in my jeep.i like snakes, so this wasn't a traumatic experience, more of a "you have got to be kidding me" kind of thing, but still.
i took a close up shot of him. poor thing...i guess my zero fatality driving record has been shattered.
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I was reading along, totally commiserating with the sticky situation you found yourself in, and then was totally taken aback by the snake (just as you were). Where the heck did it come from? How did it get stuck in the midst of all that goo? If the stuff is that sticky, wouldn't the snake have poked its nose in, noticed the extreme stickness, and then slithered elsewhere? Strange. I think you ought to put the dead snake in a jar with some alcohol and keep it in your office as a creepy souvenir with which to freak out students who come to complain about their grades. Or not.
ReplyDeletei asked myself the same questions! how did he get in there? more importantly, how did he manage to crawl through the sticky part of the tape? i mean, his entire length was stuck on. all i can think is that it must have been the exposed part of the tape, from where it had started to come apart from the window, and he fell into it.
ReplyDelete...crazy.
and i LOVE your idea. i was thinking more of a stylish resin/epoxy thing, but the jar gives it that creepy halloween effect. :)
Wow...I don't even know what to say about that Moto.
ReplyDeleteI suspect foul play.
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