Internet tutorials make DIY projects look like a walk in the park. Watching a sped-up video of a professional woodworker dismantling, staining, and rebuilding a piece of street furniture makes upcyclers green with envy, but whenever an amateur grabs the same set of tools, most people realize they're all thumbs. Anyone who's ever watched a time-lapse of a home improvement project thinks for a brief second that they could totally do that themselves, but when it really comes down to it, most of us should be hiring professionals to do the heavy lifting, because there's a lot more to being a craftsman than just sheer determination.
In our next story, one girl realized her shortcomings almost immediately, but never fessed up to herself or the employees at the hardware store that she was a total failure.
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Every naïve girl secretly wants to be a do-it-yourself Debbie, but a lot of people simply lack the skills and the know-how to pull it off. I certainly admire someone who's willing to put in the hard work on a DIY project, but when your own shortcomings become everyone else's problem and you start playing the blame-game, I lose some respect.
At one hardware store, an exemplary employee was happy to help a wannabe DIYer, but quickly realized she lacked a critical component of hard labor: work ethic. Scroll for the hilarious backfiring of one girl who was quick to point a finger at the person who messed up her DIY project, without realizing she had three fingers pointing back at herself.
Up next, here's another tale of well-deserved backfiring where a Karen tries to dispute property lines with a new neighbor and realizes she's actually on his property. Talk about an uno reverse!
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