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June 10, 2007

What the hell am I supposed to do with an empty case?

Bonus points to those who get the movie reference.

Six weeks or so back we ordered a motorized awning from Costco to put over the deck off the kitchen. It's 12 feet long, extends to 12 feet deep, and weighs just over a hundred pounds.

It arrived in a cardboard tube - 16" in diameter and 14 feet long. This isn't like corrugated paperboard - this is solid - a good half inch thick. The packaging itself probably weighs a good 40 lbs.

So now that I've installed the awning, I have this monster of a cardboard tube taking up residence in my garage.

It's longer than my car, and though the mental picture of tooling down the road with it sticking over the back with the top down is pretty amusing I'd never do it. If anyone needs to pour concrete footings, I've got just the stuff.

Posted by dberger at June 10, 2007 6:29 PM

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Posted by: Amy at June 12, 2007 9:03 AM