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My sister in law bought a new sofa.
Not a big thing in itself, but she ordered it on the great ‘net, and they told her they do not unpack or move it in the house. All they would do is get it in the front door. Finis. Nada. That’s it. In addition, she couldn’t take off of work for some reason, so me, being the ever serving family member and more importunely being retired, volunteered to be there to receive the sofa.
It arrived in a huge cardboard cocoon and they got it in the front door as said. It was up to me, and I figured my sis in law wasn’t up to the job, plus in my goodwill figured it would be a nice thing if I un-packaged it and carted away the cardboard in the back of my little Toyota pickup.
Easier said than done. All I had with me was my faithful tinker. That’s okay I thought, just slice a few pieces of plastic packing tape and take off the cardboard. Yeah. No problem. Only tiny little problem was, they had thing wrapped up tighter than King Tut’s Sarcophagus. It wasn’t just a layer of cardboard, but multiple layers with this packing foam in between. The outer layer was this double thick stuff. All said and done, I spent about an hour slicing and cutting plastic tape and large sheets of cardboard into manageable size pieces to un-wrap this large sofa. There were like several sheets of 4 foot by 6 or 7 foot sheets of the stuff that had been formed around the sofa to protect it from bangs in shipment or nuclear war and the end of the world. The little tinker earned it’s keep that day!
After the job was done, and I cleaned off the glue and stuff from the tinkers blade with some hand sanitizer that is 99% alcohol, it really wasn’t that worse for wear. IN fact, looking at the blade under a 4X magnifying glass, I could hardly see any bright spots on the edge. It needed a little bit of a touch up, which I did on one of my sister in laws coffee mug bottoms. It went from just not quite shaving sharp to shaving sharp in about 3 minutes of work.
Not a bad performance from a 10 dollar SAK from a second hand antique/junk shop.
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