I Am Becoming a Handyman

I AM A MORON

I have an awkward cabinet. It’s a lower kitchen cabinet in the corner. One side butts up against the sink, the other against the stove. It’s essential a useful cabinet with a door that opens to an inaccessible black pit where I store Thanksgiving. The roaster, the serving dish, the cake carrier go there. I haven’t used any of those things in years. It’s Kitchen Suspended Animation.

To make things more annoying, the panel that separates the “Black Hole” from the “UnderSink” has fallen over. You’d think this would give me more access to the Black Hole, but no. So, here’s my problem:

You can see where I tried to glue it back together. You can’t see it, but I also tried to nail it back in, but I couldn’t get a good hammer swing from the outside, and I couldn’t fit inside. (Note the very bottom left where there appears to be a plate of some kind.)

I AM A GENIUS
I don’t know when and where, but sometime today I thought, “Tension rod.” I bought a rod and used the Power of The Curtain Rod to Push the panel back in place.

I was very pleased with myself.

I AM A MORON

Then I thought, “Huh. What’s was that lid / plate shaped thingy sitting in the lower left of the first picture? I forgot about that.”

Sigh. Who knows. It’s trapped between the panels now. Do I care enough to take the curtain rod out? No.


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