What items/things are you "rough on"?

can't think right now, the lawn mower

Too many things! I go about tasks in such a hurry that on occasion I break things. I've had to train myself not to be that way while driving, though. Don't want to be rough on the car.

This keeps coming to mind: "You were a little rough on the Beaver last night." (supposedly from "Leave it to Beaver" (old TV show))

I think I tend to be overly careful with most stuff, so it's hard to answer. I have messed up some outside tools... like a pair of branch cutters and a sickle-like thing for cutting rough grass.

Oh, the "rough cut" mower we use to mow the field takes a beating. There isn't much I can do about that. Well, I just run it over everything (rocks, ditches, small trees, etc.), so that qualifies. It has one 4 foot blade under it and it's all bent and dinged up really bad. It used to have a kill switch thing on a string, but it kept getting pulled out, so I removed it. Also, the throttle control got bent, so I have some vice-grips holding it in the high position.

Also, the snow plow I use on the same ATV that pulls the rough cut mower is also beat up really badly. It used to have a metal plate on the bottom edge, but bolts came off then the plate was gone (never found it and it was 4 foot, 1/2 thick steel). Since then, it has been fine. The bottom has kind of smoothed itself off. Plowing is pretty rough on the dirt driveway. I got faster than I'm suppose to as well. But, it's the best way to throw the snow.

I am rough almost always with most things some of the time unless I don't care.

Well i am rough on cars and computers

Cars & Cell phones

Cell phone finishes (usually kept in my pocket with my keys), small drill bits (usually break first time), car interiors (food crumbs, cigarette burns, etc)

Cases of beer. Pantyhose obviously. And shoes. Man, I am hell on shoes.

I am rough on my vehicles. Rode hard and hung up wet.
my cars, not me.

That quote usually shows up innappropreately. How refreshing to hear it in a non risque sentence.

It was non risque, wasn't it?

> Oh, the "rough cut" mower we use to mow the field
> takes a beating. There isn't much I can do about
> that. Well, I just run it over everything (rocks,
> ditches, small trees, etc.), so that qualifies.
> It has one 4 foot blade under it and it's all
> bent and dinged up really bad. It used to have
> a kill switch thing on a string, but it kept getting
> pulled out, so I removed it. Also, the throttle
> control got bent, so I have some vice-grips holding
> it in the high position.

Does Steven King have your phone number?

> I think I tend to be overly careful with most
> stuff, so it's hard to answer. I have messed
> up some outside tools... like a pair of branch
> cutters and a sickle-like thing for cutting rough
> grass.

> Also, the snow plow I use on the same ATV that
> pulls the rough cut mower is also beat up really
> badly. It used to have a metal plate on the bottom
> edge, but bolts came off then the plate was gone
> (never found it and it was 4 foot, 1/2 thick steel).
> Since then, it has been fine. The bottom has
> kind of smoothed itself off. Plowing is pretty
> rough on the dirt driveway. I got faster than
> I'm suppose to as well. But, it's the best way
> to throw the snow.

Don't be too hard on yourself here, those are tough jobs and a tough tool will get banged up. The trick is getting banged up and still doing a good job means you bought a good tool.

> Cell phone finishes (usually kept in my pocket
> with my keys), small drill bits (usually break
> first time), car interiors (food crumbs, cigarette
> burns, etc)


Small drill bits need to be sold in large quantities at a reasonable discount. I lose them more than break them. I have to re-buy them all the darn time.
I forgot about the interior of the car...mine is all that and more. It is a SUV, so I haul all kinds of nastys sometimes.

um...

You can be rough on me, I can take it.

She can do a bang up job on your tool?

I can be rough on myself - much more than on other people.

Let me fuel up MY mower then...brb...heh heh

watches and jackets I no longer wear a watch I always break them and I don't buy nice jackets anymore

My bed... no, I don't mean like that... I'm a really tough sleeper.

Idiots and stupid people...

Me, lately, though I am a pretty positive person. At least I SEE that I am being rough on myself and will gentle that up.

> You can be rough on me, I can take it.

Gee, Bill, for a married man you sure are saucy on this particular survey. Go, man! :o)

Everything.

I'm really intense like that.

> like a pair of branch cutters

Ooooh. The giant scissor-like things that look like a lock/bolt cutter? My dad has a set of those and they are awesome. They cut ANYTHING.... I used them to cut down a few junk bushes before digging out the roots... I also used them for clipping the wire fence that I ripped out.

I really didn't mean it that way... cloudy has just been making all these nice replies to me recently...

Yup... we have 2 now... the one I ruined by cutting thick wire with (it has notches in it now) and a new pair that Jen uses and I don't touch.
We have bolt cutters too, which are even more awesome, but just for metal (well, bolts).
Jen has a lot of great tools that I don't even know much about...

We call them "The Loppers".

...myself.

My parents, but they deserve it.

I have wild images of taming the rough sleeper.

No! Not like that!!

That was a little rough!

> Jen has a lot of great tools that I don't even
> know much about...

*snicker*
I need a tool to get my mind out of the gutter. You can only read "tool" so many times before seeing the word used in entirely different meanings

sneakers

Not much of anything. I strive to have everything around me last 30 years.

Bike tires, I suppose.

Only the punchbag now. I have learned to channel my anger...

va gin as

shoes