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I am so excited right now. Brian and I were leaving the house tonight and we noticed that when the garage door closed the top panel was slightly misaligned and not resting on the one below it. The garage door is original to the house and I’m pretty sure we’re the only ones in the neighborhood that haven’t replaced it yet. So it’s kind of inevitable that we’ll have to replace it soon. Tonight I feared that the day was drawing closer…fast.

So when I got home I looked at it and the littly “thingy” that held that panel and the one below it together was no longer holding it together. But it was there, and the screws were still there, but those thingy’s that keep the screws on (I now know these are called nuts) were not there. So I was just going to walk away and show Brian when he got home, but suddenly I felt empowered. I examined the other metal thingy’s (not the screws or nuts, the big metal thingy that holds the panels together) and they were all intact. If only I had two more of the exact same nuts that were still in place.

And the light bulb went on. There’s a hardware store across the street, I know what I need, I can even bring one to show them. I was truly empowered. I could do this…all by myself! So I took off one of the nuts and brought it to the hardware store. I was going to just walk up to the counter and ask for help but they all seemed busy. So I kept walking, and found the aisle with the things that looked like what was in my hand. There were about 100 different varieties of them.

So after a couple of minutes I found one that looked like the one in my hand, but shinier. I brought two to the counter, and fully aware of my inexperience (and unwillingness to drive back to the hardware store if I was wrong) I checked with the guy behind the counter and he tried my hex-nut (oh yea, I know what that is) and the two I’d picked up on the same screw…and they all worked! He said I was lucky - but we know the truth. I am a genius.  And tonight, I fixed the garage.