1) Find a Holiday- Christmas Eve would be a great example!
2) Convince your husband and employees that no one is working that day.
3) Come in on Saturday and clean. Everything. All over. Work benches, tools, floors, lifts, tool boxes.... Shelve excess parts that have laid around for a while. Sweep. Clean. Organize.
4) Sleep in on Monday morning. Just a tad. And then go to work much later than you normally would, say about ten o'clock.
5) Organize some more; Clean a little bit more.
6) Wait for your husband to finish talking to a customer. Then get his help to move several large items, like transmissions and such, onto the lift. Raise it high.
7) Remove the truck from the other side of the shop and then refill that bay with all the things in your way, like tool boxes and welders and trash cans.
8) Take a quick trip up to the bulk food store to buy some energy food- like chocolate milk.
9) Realize that the waste oil burner is almost out of oil, so bring in another 55 gallon drum of antifreeze/oil mix. Bucket by bucket, refill the two barrels: the badly mixed barrel and the completely-oil barrel for the furnace.
10) Clean up the mess you made on the floor when you didn't quite get the bucket under the barrel spout in time and then the other mess you made when you accidentally let go of your bucket and the drum knocked flat on the floor.
11) Clean all the five gallon buckets that you used during this part of the project.
12) Hug your husband.
13) Find your five gallon bucket of Spray Nine- your amazing cleaner that costs 55 bucks a bucket.
14) Hose down the floor and dump said cleaner all over, kind of as if it was free.
15) Scrub with a large broom.
16) Grab a bottle of dish soap and just walk all over, drizzling the stuff. Just like a little kid would do when Mommy isn't looking.
17) Go find your husband and smile sweetly, and then ask him to start the pressure washer.
18) Use it for 30 seconds.
19) Go find said husband again and tell him that it ran out of gas.
20) Watch him open the gas tank and observe that it is full of nice clean fuel.
21) Get him tools as he proceeds to remove the carburetor.
22) Sit down on top of the pressure washer and rest while you hold your finger over a line of fuel that keeps wanting to spurt everywhere.
23) Happily hear it start back up.
24) Smile at your husband and tell him you're thankful for a mechanic.
25) Shut the thing off and rebolt the engine to the cart thingy.
26) Study the thing in dismay when it refuses to restart after the re-bolt process.
27) Take it all apart again, clean the carburetor
again, and receive a lesson on how a carburetor works.
28) Restart it but don't rebolt the engine. Just leave it as is.
29) Skip the smiling and the thanking.
30) Pressure wash. For two hours.
31) Run out of gas for real.
32) Quit. It looks a lot better now anyhow.
33) Know that that job won't need to be done for at least another six weeks (and might not get done for three months).
34) Be happy. :)
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