Star-cross’d metal love
April 25th, 2007
We had one of our garage door springs blow on Friday so we weren’t able to park the car inside our house. I called OnTrack to come fix it and wanted it fixed relatively quickly, so the came on Saturday and billed me a bunch of money for the mechanism replacement (which was fairly beaten up and needed some “theraputic hammering”). Then, wrought with rusty angst at having lost its true companion of 15 years, the second garage door spring decided it could not go on any longer in this world and drank poison which it had procured somehow from a local apothecary. The same repairman came and declared it dead by ironic means and proceeded to replace said second spring. When will the families of the right and left garage doors realize their folly and the tragic loss of their springy children? Never — they are just doors.
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1. Nicole Davis | April 26th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
But, soft! What light through yonder garage door breaks?
It is the east, and the second spring is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
(the moon is spring number one)
2. John Askin | May 8th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Long ago, along the Southern bank of the Yangtze River in central China those springs sprang into existance at the insistance of a funny God (never forget - God is an iron). They fell in love as no other two strands of coiled steel ever have or ever will again. They suffered through the exhaustive quality assurance testing process in that together, exceeding the expectations of their creator. Their future together seemed limitless and neverending. The cruel fate that awaited them may have been obvious to everyone else but it is a spring’s nature to be optimistic. After all……..Springs hope eternal in the Hunan test.
3. Chad | May 16th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
The term “mean time to failure” comes to mind. It’s the reason that when you build large RAID servers, you shouldn’t buy all your drives from the same manufacturer. They tend to fail within DAYS of each other.
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