No one can be that stupid......Crap!!!

[Juggler]

Wednesday I was putting some laminate (generalized brand name - Formica) on the counter top. It's a pretty simple process. Cut a piece of laminate to fit with some overhang. Glue it down with contact cement. Use a router to trim the edges.

For those of you who have never used contact cement, you apply it to both surfaces to be joined, let it get tacky, then join the pieces, much like bike inner tube repair. It's probably the same glue.

As I was preparing to do the job I thought to myself "Maybe I should block off the counter so someone won't put a book or box of them on the counter while the contact cement is drying." But I figured that no one would be so stupid as to see a wet sticky surface, someone using a brush to apply glue, from a can labeled as such, to that surface, smell the solvents evaporating from said glue and then do what feared. I was wrong.

Someone did just that.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

You forgot the first three lessons of this site.

#1. God must love idiots for he certainly made a hell of a lot of them.
#2. Making something idiot-proof is a futile gesture for as soon as you do, God makes better idiots.
#3. When you look at a situation where the choices are the smart decision and the stupid one...always bet on stupidity.

[Mikkel]

, much bike inner tube repair. It's probably the same glue.

Nooo, if you use contact glue on an inner tube, you'll ruin it. The contact glue won't stretch with the tube so the patch will peel off and it is almost impossible to remove the glue to get a clean surface.
Be warned, it has been tried many times .

[MoonCat]

I'd have thought the smell alone would warn people...yow...

[zombiequeen]

At least they didn't stick their face in it....or maybe that would have been better?

[Jay 2K Winger]

No one can be that stupid

Something I've learned after years in retail and tacit observation of the human race is this:

Yes. Yes, someone can be that stupid. Saying that no one could be that stupid-- or even thinking it too loudly-- acts as Idiot Lure.

[chainedbarista]

hm, maybe we need to lay out a giant sized flypaper, then yell, "SURELY NO PERSON WOULD BE STUPID ENOUGH TO CROSS THIS..."

and wait for a few minutes seconds.

[Jester]

But I figured that no one would be so stupid...

And you've been a member of this board for how long?

Every time New Boss Man says, "There are no stupid questions," I remind him of the guy who asked, in all seriousness, "Is that Mount Gay Rum rum designed for gay people to drink?" At which point New Boss Man concedes that, yes, there really are stupid questions.

There are some basic life absolutes I feel the need to point out:

Nobody is perfect.
Governments lie.
People are stupid.
Megan Fox is appropriately named.
If you can't identify something in the back of the fridge, it belongs in the trash.
Sex sells for a reason.
And people are still stupid.

[wolfie]

For those of you who have never used contact cement, you apply it to both surfaces to be joined, let it get tacky, then join the pieces, much like bike inner tube repair. It's probably the same glue.

Actually, you wait until it's no longer tacky (i.e. solvent has evaporated). The rubber cement used for bike tube repair works the same way, and can be used as contact cement (bit weaker), but it's a one-way substitution, as someone's already mentioned. BTW, if you use a bike tire patch kit, you need to get a new kit - once the foil seal on the cement is punctured, it'll dry out because the cap isn't vapour-tight, so if you get another puncture a few months later the cement will be useless.

You seem to know a bit about contact cement, maybe you can help me. I've been trying to use it to glue a velvet Elvis painting onto a pink flamingo lawn ornament. I followed the instructions (apply to both surfaces, wait until they're no longer tacky, then put them together). Roughly how long do I need to wait - it's been over a month already, and they're still tacky.

[LillFilly]

Yeeeaaahhh.....

We had a person look at the roped-off area, the 'wet paint' signs and the guys painting the hallway, and watched as they RAN THEIR HAND OVER IT!!! Then complained to the mall management that the mall needed to pay their cleaning bill because they got paint on their sleeve!

Or the car that ran through the coned-off area of the road where the lines were being repainted; almost hitting the guy (wearing a reflective safety vest) painting and running-over his tray of yellow street paint, which splashed the side of the car. They tried to sue the mall for damages...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Every time New Boss Man says, "There are no stupid questions," I remind him of the guy who asked, in all seriousness, "Is that Mount Gay Rum rum designed for gay people to drink?" At which point New Boss Man concedes that, yes, there really are stupid questions.

I've always wondered if there is no such thing as a stupid question, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask?

Do they just get smart in time to ask a question?

[RootedPhoenix]

You seem to know a bit about contact cement, maybe you can help me. I've been trying to use it to glue a velvet Elvis painting onto a pink flamingo lawn ornament. I followed the instructions (apply to both surfaces, wait until they're no longer tacky, then put them together). Roughly how long do I need to wait - it's been over a month already, and they're still tacky.

*cringe*

AS for the OP..... People can be that stupid, but I wish they weren't that stupid.

[Snowbird]

It seemed appropriate.

[Kristev]

Switch that sign to Wal-Mart, and you have my life.

[Mytical]

Switch that sign to Wal-Mart, and you have my life.

I feel for you, Wally World is a PITA.