My husband's being bossy and unreasonable.

[noamnety]

"I'm just telling you, you can't break the laws of physics."

Fucking engineers.

[Alisha-Bunny-12]

1. What is he being bossy and unreasonable about?

[noamnety]

4. We've been working on a solar dehydrator.

It was admittedly his idea to convert his lawn tractor:



I came up with shelving for it:


and if you look closely at the sides there, I added foam insulation panels to the outside. I tried magnetic clips but the magnets weren't strong enough and they fell off in the breeze. So I bought some suction cup hangers and replaced the wires with longer ones to hold the panels onto the cart. Everything on the cart needs to be easily removable so he can still use it for lawn work.

Now he's blathering on about the laws of thermodynamics and how suction cups won't work, because they'll be on the hot metal of the cart, so the air in the suction cup will heat up and expand and they will pop off. I think all the air is gonna be pushed out of them anyway when I stick them on so there is no air to heat up.

He's just shaking his head saying it's a law, "you can't break the law."

[Alisha-Bunny-12]

6. I would ask him if he had any better ideas.

[noamnety]

7. I can't.

I'm too proud.

[Wait Wut]

11. Heh...

...when he's not looking put a dab of rubber cement on them.

[surrealAmerican]

8. That's pretty cool.

Why not just clamp it on from the outside? I think there may be something I'm not understanding here.

[noamnety]

19. If it didn't have the frame for the glass on top

I could just clamp it to the side panels easily.

I'm thinking now though if I put the suction cups on after it heats up in the sun for ten minutes, that little bit of air in the suction cups would already be hot and expanded.

[Locut0s]

23. Cool idea! nt.

[PoliticAverse]

26. As someone that has a degree in engineering I'll tell you experimental evidence is > theory...

Since you already have the suction cups just try it and see what happens.

[Betsy Ross]

2. When life around me is falling apart

I always rely on the laws of physics.

[Betsy Ross]

3. Oh wait

It was HIS physics reference that troubled you. No. Physics is our friend. It is at the center of all life and love.
As I said, when life is getting me down, I commune with physics, often my riding my bike.

[noamnety]

5. Physics is an asshole.

Also - I should confess, I am also grumpy because while I was out in the garden picking beans, a deer came by to eat pears that fell off the tree. I was gonna pick them right after the beans. I don't care about that, I can share some.

But the deer, it saw me and froze, then looked right at me, slowly squatted down, and peed on the pears I was gonna grab. Then it sauntered off.

[sharp_stick]

13. Venison?

I swear I caught my wife looking up rabbit recipes after one ate the tops off her beets.

[noamnety]

21. Now that I'm thinking about it

I could probably fit its entire fat ass in the dehydrator for jerky.

[irisblue]

15. sister

i understand...being told piss off twice in one day...well, I feel for you

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Hang in there!!! i just KNOW I can find that recipe for "Venison with Pungent Pears".

[Libertas1776]

9. Ah physics...

the main reason why I don't exercise. To quote a heavyset comedian, Jon Pinette, "Pulls ups, sit ups...I don't do ups. Ups defy gravity...Gravity is a LAW. I OBEY the LAW!"

I guess I should be thanking the laws of physics then.

[Agschmid]

10. In my world physics has no laws...

I'm an outlaw baby.

[trof]

12. Obviously this calls for duct tape.

What are you thinking?

[csziggy]

14. ***^^^ THIS ^^^***

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. And a hammer. A BIGGER hammer.

[noamnety]

18. I duct taped around the edges of the styrofoam

so little white dots wouldn't come off from the cut edges (and to get the mandatory duct tape usage in).

But duct taping it to the cart is going to leave sticky residue and doesn't count as completely removable in a clean way.

I tried self stick velcro straps strategically placed on the removable panels - but in the heat, the self stick glue melted off. Thermodynamics fucks me over again!

[elleng]

20. HAHAHAHA!

Living with one of those!

[ConcernedCanuk]

22. Settle down, take a different approach.

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Sure looks like he's trying to please you.

It's not an easy thing for a man to give up a piece of machinery,

which he obviously did by converting the trailer into a dehydrator.

Don't get too concerned about the details, look at the bigger picture.

Your husband may not have done exactly what you wanted,

but his heart is in the right place.

He did this for YOU!!

ponder that.

CC

[Xyzse]

24. How is it attached?

Is it possible for you to make it slide instead?
I'd probably cut something like


I'd bisect it in the middle and use that gap to create a platform for the edges of that door to slide on.

Then screw it on the sides of the top and bottom. That way you can just slide the door side to side.
If necessary, even place another one on the left or right side, so that it forces you to slide that door only one way, which can then be locked in place.

I don't know....
I'll go to my corner now.

[Sherman A1]

25. I support the law of gravity