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TIFU by exploding Grandma’s glass shower door into a million pieces

Alright, so this actually happened today, 4 hours ago.

I’ve been staying with my in-laws for the holidays and they’ve been such great hosts. Dinners, drinks, movies, games, the whole Christmas nine yards.

My wife’s grandma lives on the property in a little guest house and she’s able to come and go as she pleases while still having her own space. It’s great.

I’ve been trying to help with things and be of as much assistance as I can but there hasn’t been anything significant I can contribute, other than driving both of their daughters home for the holidays through 12 hours of traffic and snow storms.

So, onto the FU, grandma came over and let us know her shower door was jammed and fell fo the track, perfect opportunity. I’m the guy who can fix things, has tools, and the mechanical aptitude to work things. I jumped on the opportunity to fix the door and be the guy who saved grandma’s day.

I walked next door and the glass door won’t slide, jammed up pretty good. The rollers at the top of the door were out of the track and the door just needed to be lifted about a half inch to drop the rollers back into place.

I grab the door, go to lift and the whole thing explodes, literally explodes everywhere. Glass in my hair, shower full of tempered glass, and I’m barefoot standing in an inch of glass.

No idea what happened, no clue why it broke. I didn’t even get the glass door lifted off the door frame before it exploded.

The other grandma was on her way over so I ended up spending an hour in the bathroom, cleaning up the glass, cleaned the whole floor, picking glass out of every nook and cranny, out of my hair, out of my clothing, etc.

Unfortunately, the moment I was waiting for backfired spectacularly and now grandma can’t use her shower. My wife’s uncle is a contractor and he said it will be somewhere between $400-$1000, fuck.

TL;DR: been waiting for my opportunity to shine while staying at my in-laws for the holidays. Tried to fix grandma’s glass shower door and ended up exploding it into a million pieces instead.

Merry Christmas Grandma! You get a new shower door!

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