Saturday, September 30, 2006

Text/Subtext

Ok. The guys who built this house used relatively inexpensive windows in them (ie. not a brand name like Pella or Hurd). The double-hung window panes had a plastic piece that locked them into the frames or allowed them to drop into the room to clean them. Plastic. On south-facing windows in a strongly sunny environment. With a "pin" to catch the pieces that was about 1/8" thick and 1/4" long.

They broke the second year we lived here. And nobody can find the company or a similar part so they can be appropriately fixed. We jerry-rigged a fix that usually holds pretty well.

When we returned from Illinois, however, one window had dropped into the room (fortunately not damaging the wooden blinds in front of it). It's a really easy fix to simply screw another hook in, but the hook was missing.

TEXT:

The blinds are up there because we need to get a hook out of the garage to fix the window.

So who, besides the shpouser, could not correctly interrept the

SUBTEXT:
Before you head upstairs to play more Ages of Empire on your computer, go out to the garage, get the piece needed and fix the window.

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