Remember last event I mentioned $14K spent in a month? 30 days to be exact. $14K
So, 6 sets of Lego's. Apparently the boy loved lego's (this is the first Meg has ever heard of this in25 years) and had always wanted to build things with them. Who even knows how much these sets contributed to the $14K. Relatively little in the great scheme, probably. Know how lego building kits come as a specific thing to build? A dump truck, plane, tank, something or another Star Wars? Anyway, 6 sets.
Next were doweled shelving and plastic bins for the lego's to be stored in. I couldn't understand it. I don't think the sisters (in-laws and out-laws this time) understood what he was doing either. So to review we have so far:
6 builder sets of lego's
2 tall dowel shelving sets
Multiple plastic bins
Keep up here. There will be twists and turns, I promise. We awoke one morning to find that he had ordered one of those standing tool shelving units. You know the Craftsman ones with a smaller one on the top and a large one with casters on the bottom? Those. They are only ancillary to the story, just know they were there. There was a contentious moment between one of his friends, our sister Kristy and anyone else who was in the room where he wanted the upper tool shelf placed on one of his desks WIDTH length.
He said long ways on the depth, people who were reasonable said it would hang partly over the edge because the desk wasn't that deep. Anyway, it ended up the way he wanted. Now back to our story.
Lego's. Right. Boxes were coming in every day. The three women in the house were irritated on the regular about things coming in from Amazon, but there we were! The lego sets started coming in. We would start unboxing these for a few days and there would be these 6 boxes of lego sets. He wanted everything around him. Around the recliner that already had two tables with various arms and implements to bring a monitor directly in front of him, drinks in varying stages of waste, a small stand for his phone. He was surrounded. He wanted the kits around him. And so it was.
He decided one day that he would start unpacking them. The outlaw and inlaw and I were having nightmares of little lego's everywhere and one of the dogs eating one and surgery and calamity! He was still going to unpack them. He told KRISTY?! to go and get the plastic bins. She did. He proceeded to sit on the floor with Kristy and start unpacking all of them. Envision yourself with each bag of separated parts for you to pull from "a" bag for this part and "b" bag for that part. You know, separated. To build it more easily. Separated.
He began to pull bags apart and start loading lego's into plastic bins. The women in the room scratching their heads as he just opened each bag and cavalierly tossed them in this bin or that. When he had done that for an entire building set, he pushed the box aside and opened the next. THEN he started with the bags again and started pouring them into the plastic bins! OK, WAIT. None of the parts were being labeled and he was arranging them in the bins by like pieces. Kristy had that "WTF are you doing" look on her face. We asked, why in the world was he removing the organization of these kits and mixing everything up? There was a good answer, he didn't want to make any of the things in the boxes. He wanted to build his own things out of the lego's. WHAT? It should be said here that he was brilliant and a mechanical engineer. In another time every woman in the room would have rolled her eyes, lamented his intelligence and walked away. Right now, though...not so much.
While he and KRISTY!? kept unpacking parts, Meg would hide an unopened box and Kristy did the same when she could get away from the lunatic on the floor with lego's. He managed to get 4 of the 6 boxes open and taken apart before the hiding had concluded.
Those bins needed to be up in his office so the dogs couldn't get into them. They took up residence next to the big read Craftsman tool box that was hanging off the edge of the desk because he got his way. They couldn't be around his chair. Thank the stars.
Fast forward to me coming home after he died. I was doing some straightening up. I got the dust buster out for one reason or another and went to empty the collection chamber. As it poured into the trash can a yellow lego came rushing out with the dust. The picture was taken and Meg and Kristy got their smile for the day. That guy.....
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