mrissa: (amused)
[personal profile] mrissa
What the contractor said: "The plumbing team will be there Friday morning to mark up your basement."

What the contractor did not say: "The plumbing team will be there Friday morning to mark up your basement with a jackhammer."

So today is a bit different than the day we'd expected....

Date: 2009-09-18 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] columbina.livejournal.com
wow.

Now that's what I call indelible marking.

Date: 2009-09-18 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Better than a Sharpie.

Date: 2009-09-18 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zunger.livejournal.com
That sort of reminds me of the traditional things you append to fortune cookies -- "in bed," "with an AK-47," "with a jackhammer."

Apparently some of these things are just meant to be implicit.

Date: 2009-09-19 01:14 am (UTC)
aedifica: Me with my hair as it is in 2020: long, with blue tips (Default)
From: [personal profile] aedifica
"...after the robot holocaust."

(Or so says a friend of mine, at least.)

Date: 2009-09-18 06:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marydell.livejournal.com
Now you are going to be all flinchy whenever a copyeditor marks up a manuscript for you.

Date: 2009-09-18 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] columbina.livejournal.com
I've had a manuscript get marked up with a jackhammer before. A metaphorical one, but the end results looked about the same. I believe the pages were dripping ichor when he handed them back.

Date: 2009-09-18 06:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillnotbored.livejournal.com
That's a big implication. A noisy one too.

Date: 2009-09-18 07:02 pm (UTC)
pameladean: (Default)
From: [personal profile] pameladean
Um, yeah. A day with lots of punctuation.

P.

Date: 2009-09-18 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dd-b.livejournal.com
Much noisier than a hammer, yes.

Date: 2009-09-18 09:13 pm (UTC)
guppiecat: (Default)
From: [personal profile] guppiecat
Jackhammers are always better implied than confronted directly.

Date: 2009-09-19 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
"While Jim confronts the wild jackhammers, I will make breakfast here on the camp stove. Look out, Jim!"

Date: 2009-09-19 02:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] braddr.livejournal.com
That just replaced the jewelry industry at the top of my impressive markup list.

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