A Drywall Anecdote, that I like to call "Don't Use Organic

Mar 2, 2021, 12:31 PM

Stuff To Patch Holes In The Wall".

Once upon a time at Clemson, we spent a few years living on the top floor of the 600 building in University Place. We never locked the doors, not even over Christmas break, which, in hindsight, was pretty stupid. Never had anything stolen, remarkably. Every time any of us would come back from class, it was a crapshoot whether there would be a non-resident hanging out in our living room on a Tuesday afternoon drinking our beer and waiting for somebody to get home to play Mortal Kombat on the 13" combo TV/VCR.

One evening got a bit rowdy in 631 University Place, and a moshpit erupted. We managed a solid 3 minutes of nothing being broken, until I got shoved mid-jump into the hallway wall. My hip and right asscheek put a sizeable hole into said hallway wall, probably 8" in diameter.

We looked at that hole for weeks. Even nicknamed it "19B's Asshole", since technically, it was a hole created by a buttock. I finally got around to picking up a bucket of spackle at ACE, and was about to get down to the business of slopping it into an asshole, but turns out, the bucket contained a thick, wet soup. An attempt to put this soup into a hole would have yielded a runny mess down the wall. What we need here is a thickening agent. You know what will probably work? Flour. Got some right here in the kitchen.

Mixed flour into the soup and thickened it right up. Spackled the 8" hole without the assistance of a pinecone, because why would I put a gatdam pinecone in my wall? Worked like a charm, we'll get to painting it later when it comes time to move out, or not.

Few weeks later, the asshole starts taking on a yellowish-greenish hue. What's all this now? Over the next week or two, it turned into pure mold. I don't remember for sure, but I feel like we left it because the landlord was a total POS who still owes me my $175 deposit 25 years later. Plus interest.

Moral of the story: don't include organic materials in your drywall repair work.

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A Drywall Anecdote, that I like to call "Don't Use Organic

Nice. I NOA guy who had a dartboard on the back of his dorm

19BCoachSC®?***

Maybe we are bizarro alter egos.....

Jeebus, 45" of TV in the 90s?

That's about right for my roommates old Wega XBR

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