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Term Paper Title	If You Want Kitchen Cabinets You Need New Shingles On The Roo
# of Words	1256
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	5.02

If you want kitchen cabinets you need new shingles on the roo

Dunlap, Lawrence
HEW101
January 11, 1997
Narrative Essay

You Need New Shingles On The Roof If You Want New Kitchen Cabinets

Bob Vila, the host of  "Home Again," always makes his projects look so easy.  Most people fail to realize why good ole’ Bob is able to make things appear so easy on television.  You see, Bob has a fifty man crew made up of world class carpenters hidden out of site behind the camera.  These carpenters are the best and are armed to the teeth with Sears’ best craftsman power tools.  They stay out of site until a commercial comes on and then they run out from behind the camera and take care of all of the hard to do tasks that good ole’ Bob never tells you about. Seemingly harmless projects to fix up your house can have terrible consequences that lay waiting for the poor and unsuspecting  handyman.  They are usually a great deal more involved than what you may have bargained for.
Around September in 1995, my wife was watching Bob on television.  He was installing a new set of kitchen cabinets in an old house.  Well, she decided that I needed to do the same thing because it was a very simple and non time consuming project.  She said that Bob did it in thirty minutes and so could I.  She took me to "Home Depot" in Orange Park and picked out her new kitchen cabinets.  I was a little unsure about this kitchen cabinet thing, but the salesman assured us that the entire project  would be a "turn key"  installation.  The salesman asked me if I wanted them to deliver the materials.  I declined his offer because I could do it myself and save money.  So, I waited for a nice clear day to go back to pick up everything.  I was using an open bed truck and it was a pretty sizable load to carry such a long distance.  Well, the worst rain storm in Florida history developed over Green Cove Springs on the clear day I chose to pick everything up.  I was about halfway home and this terrible rain storm ambushed me. I couldn’t get away. I was surrounded on all sides.  It soaked everything in the bed of the truck.  I drove like an insane person to get home so I could unload it in this down pouring rain and get the boxes  dried off.  Luckily nothing was damaged from the water. It was an omen and I failed to see it.
The next day I took my ten pound hammer and began tearing out the old cabinets.  I was having a pretty good time beating up all of this wood in my house with this hammer.  It was fun until I realized that the cabinets were actually part of the wall and now I was going to have to rip out the whole wall.  I said to myself, "Oh what the heck, it’s just a wall and I can rebuild it."  So, I tore the whole thing out.  Unfortunately, after this, I discovered that water had been leaking from behind the wall and rotted several floor joists under the kitchen floor. Now I was going to have to rip up the entire kitchen floor.  The next morning I removed the appliances and ripped out the floor.  I had successfully taken a very functional kitchen and turned it into a rather large pile of busted up wood, which was now trashing up my back yard.  For some strange reason, this incredible euphoria of accomplishment made me fantasize about choking the life out of Bob Vila.  I was now prepared to remove the damaged fl...

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