I picked up spark plugs at NAPA yesterday, they were running a special "buy a bucket and anything you can fit in it is 20% off".

Well daaaaamn and I got a new bucket to boot.

Fast forward to this morning, I had left the bucket by the interior garage door.

My wife sees the bucket and asks.....and I believe it was sarcasm..."is this for me?"

Ok, it's 5 in the morning I'll play

I go on to tell her that it is indeed her early B-day present.

She is not impressed

I go on to tell her that in many a third world countries....even some second world countries a good bucket is a PRIZE!

You can carry water
You can carry wood
You can carry rice from the UN free food program
You can carry your children
You can carry that chicken you bought
You can carry ammo
You can carry gasoline or benzene

And of course they make a pretty good shitter if ya have the need.

Nope....she was very unappreciative

HAHAHA

I was feeling this week (took a few days off from work - with company phone and computer off) and thought to myself, "self, she's a pretty good gal, even when she's mad at us for not doing anything all weekend."

You sold me

Some people!

Hook, line and sinker. Pickle Rick!

Was there a hole in the bucket?

I can only speculate what your next birthday present might be...

However, you have an easy out if you want to take it. Dave Truong will fix you right up!

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Was there a hole in the bucket?

Can't buy no beer.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Was there a hole in the bucket?

No hole but it was the non-deluxe model .....it had no top, maybe that is why my lovely bride turned up her nose at a perfectly good bucket.

and about your last task. The bucket will also hold some kitty litter

You had better start preparing your bucket list. Some college teams, like Purdue compete for prizes like this. Ask tatortodd. I believe it is called the old oaken bucket.

I realize it’s humor, but we spoil easy, don’t we?

A local family we are friends with (friendship doesn’t really describe it) has a 100 year old matriarch.
She tells a story about a blender her husband (long since passed) got her for Christmas when they had been married just a few years.
Of course the younger women in the family scoff at the idea of a kitchen gadget for a gift.
The story goes on, she can’t remember if was 1937 or 1936, but she remembers it was the first year they had electricity in the house. And after that Christmas, she didn’t have to wrangle kids while having a mixing bowl crooked under one arm.
And yes, she still has that Hamilton Beach counter top mixer, and it still runs, and she still uses it from time to time.

I know, nothing to do with a bucket. It just sparked a memory

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Some college teams, like Purdue compete for prizes like this. Ask tatortodd. I believe it is called the old oaken bucket.

You are correct. The good guys lead the series 74-42, but the bad guys currently have possession of the bucket.

You had me at "shitter."

I'll take two.

My wife is a farmer. Dhe would be delighted with a perfectly good bucket. New, never used would be a bonus to her.

Buckets are a way of life around here. My lovely wife and I have our own certain buckets for certain tasks.

There once was a man from Nantucket ,
Made his wife for a present,
a bucket.
He'd filled it with sand
from a beach in Thailand
She looked in and cried, 'Oh, Phuket!'

You may need a food taster for a while.

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:
You may need a food taster for a while.

flashguy

Ha...my MIL cooks and she totally liked the bucket

Should have used the female/decorator card and said it could be used for a flower pot for planting flowers ........................drill sgt.