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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 24, 2006 7:35:18 GMT -5
i got my child one of those basketball goal things with wheels after basketball practice yesterday. we don't have any concrete out here in the country so i knew i would have to set it up at my parent's house. well when i arrived with it my dad who is in his 70's and doesn't get out much came right out to see. he wanted to put it together right away but my mom didn't want us to so we had to work under the evil eye. we did everthing backwards at least once and were trying so hard not to let the evil eye catch us when we had something on backwards. in spite of the evil eye my dad and i had a blast getting it together. we dropped all the nuts and washers in her vines in the dark and thank goodness he has one of those magnetic things so i could find them as he had headed off to find some shears to cut her vines all up lol. we left a part out and were having to take the backboard and rim back off and he dropped the whole rim on me. he made 2 points when my head went right through the net but no fear my nose stopped it  . i thought he'd broken my nose and i'm still not too sure he didn't as i can't touch it. when we got through with the backboard we were rolling laughing because we were both stuck - him in the vines and me under the backboard lol. we got through at 10 p.m. and then we had to test drive it and had to suffer some more evil eye as we were making too much noise for the evil eye. at midnight my phone rang and it was my dad calling to tell me we got the pole on backwards. he was whispering in case she'd swapped her eye in for an ear. we are going to get some more evil eye today  . kim |
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 24, 2006 8:24:00 GMT -5
haha kim i swear that sounds just like me and my dad when he was still alive we would hide and do stuff so mom didnt yell at us hahaha --- if she had her way he would be stittin in the chair watchin tv with her but he loved messin with stuff
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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 24, 2006 8:35:07 GMT -5
rofl she just called to tell me it was on backwards. she's disappointed we had figured that out before her lol. i've called for reinforcements to change the pole around so my dad doesn't drop the pole on me - my nose can't take another blow lol. if i don't get it done quick he'll get out there and try to do it by himself and really might get hurt.
kim
kim
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Post by krazydiamond on Oct 24, 2006 9:21:41 GMT -5
i can't help but laugh at that story, even if your nose is broken, sounds like you had a good time despite the evil eye. hope your nose is better soon.
KD
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Post by hermatite on Oct 24, 2006 9:30:50 GMT -5
ooooooh the evil eye! I swear my mom can freeze water from fifty feet with hers! Are your eyes black too? Sounds like a (kind of) sports injury worth bragging about!
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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 24, 2006 10:45:47 GMT -5
ok we got it! we lost a washer in the process and don't think that was lost on dad. he had to get about upside down to see it but believe me he noticed. i was thinking we were going to have to take it apart to put that washer back on but he couldn't see a reason for it so he let us slide. he said he'd keep it though just in case and put it in his pocket lol.
kd & herm i think i'm definitely going to have a black eye on the left as it is already starting to color and it is the most swollen. i have an indention in the top of my nose too lol. i think i lost some hair too when it snatched my sunglasses off my head. i found them in the vines this morning.
at his age this might be the last thing we get to put together as a team so the evil eye and black eye will be all worth it lol.
kim
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Post by 181lizard on Oct 24, 2006 13:10:23 GMT -5
We call that "getting the ole stink eye!"
It's genetic. Daughter got it around 18 years of age when she thought she could start using her brain. I got it around the same age. Within a year, she had gotten the "index hex." (using the index finger. shaking it quite rapidy in peoples faces when trying to drive a point home.) Whenever people see us together, they laugh cause we have so many similar mannerisms. (tuesdays are even better...Grandma joins us. It's a stink eye free for all!)
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Post by hermatite on Oct 24, 2006 13:36:51 GMT -5
the index hex!!! I LOVE IT!
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Post by parfive on Oct 24, 2006 15:39:21 GMT -5
Kim - I know you can't bash me on the nose all the way from Mississississippi (to keep me from sticking it in someone else's business) so . . . . . WHEN ARE YOU GONNA READ THE INSTRUCTIONS? Or at least look at the cartoon.
The Evil Eye Up North
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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 24, 2006 16:18:52 GMT -5
rich - mrs. evil eye was in charge of the instructions and we were pages ahead of her lol. of course after we disgusted her enough she went away for short periods only to return every now and again to put the evil eye back on us. we would look at the instructions while she was gone - how do you think we knew we had stuff backwards  . by the time we got through the instructions were torn and had shoe prints on them ;D. kim |
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Post by krazydiamond on Oct 24, 2006 16:56:13 GMT -5
my mother doesn't have an evil bone (or eyeball) in her body....but WAY before Mr. Spock was on Star Trek, my dad had "the eyebrow". he could dismiss you, humiliate you, laugh at you and call you dumb as a post with just one facial movement.
and...i'm never too old to get "the eyebrow" from the old man, either.
how's the nose, Kim?
Kd
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Post by WarrenA on Oct 24, 2006 23:02:49 GMT -5
I can relate to your story. 2 yrs ago when I was building my garage/shop I put the overhead doors in myself, and I honestly tried to use the instructions but they were so poorly writen that I quit using them and just put them together
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Post by takilasunrise on Oct 24, 2006 23:13:16 GMT -5
How do you get the evil eye? I want it! My kids give me the evil eye!
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Post by 181lizard on Oct 25, 2006 11:23:03 GMT -5
Kim - Horrible things can happen while under the evil eye! And usually, it happens more to the younger person involved cause the older ones have already had sooooo much of it. Besides, evil always wants to give the younger ones the finger!
Takila - I'm sorry to report, that if you don't have the knack for it already, you're doomed. It MUST be passed down through the family. The only other way to get the knack for it, is when you are little & you're at a neighbors house & see it being used by the elders on their kids, then you see how it could be used to a childs advantage cause your parents have NO CLUE and you take it home & pull it out at the appropriate time. Most parents are so blindsided by the sheer brilliance of this, they have no answer except to blink quite rapidly.
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. i thought he'd broken my nose and i'm still not too sure he didn't as i can't touch it. when we got through with the backboard we were rolling laughing because we were both stuck - him in the vines and me under the backboard lol. we got through at 10 p.m. and then we had to test drive it and had to suffer some more evil eye as we were making too much noise for the evil eye. at midnight my phone rang and it was my dad calling to tell me we got the pole on backwards. he was whispering in case she'd swapped her eye in for an ear. we are going to get some more evil eye today 
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. by the time we got through the instructions were torn and had shoe prints on them ;D. 
