BarryBobPosthole
08-03-2015, 11:25 PM
No, not Scope Creek, that was a project I worked on in the Air Force.
Scope creep. Here's how it works.
About a year ago, maybe longer but don't ask my wife how long, I went to replace a leaky Delta faucet cartridge in our master bathroom shower. The cartridge was stuck so I grabbed a pair of channel locks and put some brown bean torque on it. And promptly twisted the whole shooting match and broke one of the copper pipes that are part of the cartridge housing. Then I had to bust out a hole in the tile on the wall to install cut off valves in the hot and cold water feeds. That way I could turn the water back on in the house until I could fix it. My wife took one look at it and immediately expanded my job with one short sentence. "I never liked that damned tile to begin with." See how she did that? Said the only thing possible that simultaneously let me off the hook AND stab me in the top of the head with an even bigger one.
Fast forward a long time. I restarted this project a few weeks ago. (We have been using another shower, we are bathroom poor in this damned house). Now its grown to.....tiling one entire wall of the master bathroom instead of just the shower. Installing all new shower guts and trim. We picked that out today. No. SHE picked that out today. Installing a new frameless shower enclosure. Installing new valves, drains, and spouts on both vanity sinks. Installing new valves drains and spouts on the bathtub/spa. Installing new drawer pulls and toilet paper holders. Its gotta all match you know. She was looking at new light bars and sconces when I dragged her home today.
And all because I put just a little bit too much torque on those channel locks.
Scope creep.
Its real.
BKB
Scope creep. Here's how it works.
About a year ago, maybe longer but don't ask my wife how long, I went to replace a leaky Delta faucet cartridge in our master bathroom shower. The cartridge was stuck so I grabbed a pair of channel locks and put some brown bean torque on it. And promptly twisted the whole shooting match and broke one of the copper pipes that are part of the cartridge housing. Then I had to bust out a hole in the tile on the wall to install cut off valves in the hot and cold water feeds. That way I could turn the water back on in the house until I could fix it. My wife took one look at it and immediately expanded my job with one short sentence. "I never liked that damned tile to begin with." See how she did that? Said the only thing possible that simultaneously let me off the hook AND stab me in the top of the head with an even bigger one.
Fast forward a long time. I restarted this project a few weeks ago. (We have been using another shower, we are bathroom poor in this damned house). Now its grown to.....tiling one entire wall of the master bathroom instead of just the shower. Installing all new shower guts and trim. We picked that out today. No. SHE picked that out today. Installing a new frameless shower enclosure. Installing new valves, drains, and spouts on both vanity sinks. Installing new valves drains and spouts on the bathtub/spa. Installing new drawer pulls and toilet paper holders. Its gotta all match you know. She was looking at new light bars and sconces when I dragged her home today.
And all because I put just a little bit too much torque on those channel locks.
Scope creep.
Its real.
BKB