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I was butterflying all my joints wrong for 8 years until a retired mason in Ohio set me straight.
He saw me finishing a wall and said, 'Son, you're butterflying the far end first, that's backwards.' I had been fighting the mortar every time and never understood why.
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sanchez.mary11d ago
Son, you're butterflying the far end first, that's backwards" - man, that's one of those things that sounds so simple but changes everything once you hear it. It's like when someone told me I was tucking in my bedsheet corners wrong my whole adult life (you know, the hospital corner trick). I bet the mortar was just sliding off or not grabbing right because the angle was off, like putting a puzzle piece in backwards and then wondering why it won't snap. And the way he called you "son" too, that's a true old-school tradesman move, they always have that no-nonsense way of explaining stuff that just sticks with you. Bet you never looked at a trowel the same way again after that.
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vera19511d ago
Oh man, that's such a perfect way to put it... like finally getting the trick for a bedsheet corner after years of fighting it.
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moore.beth11d ago
Huh, I gotta say I see it a bit differently. That "hospital corner" thing never really stuck with me - I've always just tucked the sheets loose and called it a day, and my bed stays put just fine. Sometimes we overthink these "tricks" and make simple tasks feel more complicated than they really are, you know?
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