I realize that this may be in poor taste, but it was just too funny not to share.
While the husband’s away, I’ve got computer parts decorating the kitchen table. Hard drive, floppy and CD drives, tools, screws and widgets, cables, and in the center, an open case with wires coming out, but the motherboard finally in place with the CPU and some of the connections made. My neighbor stopped in with a friend for a second, raised her eyebrows spotting among the mess and pointing to a tube of K-Y jelly.
"I didn’t have any Vaseline," I told her. Now her friend was looking at me funny as well.
You see, my dad taught me that when it was hard to put a non-magnetic screw into a difficult to reach place, a dab of vaseline on the tip of the screwdriver holds the screw on until you can maneuver it to its destination. This works perfectly, especially working inside a computer.
I think they believed me, but maybe I’d better put it away before Jim comes back home.
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