Funny, just this week I was told my wife and her workmates were trying to one-up each other on the great things their husbands do. I was “fortunate” that this week I noticed that the entire right side of the upper kitchen cabinet was leaning forwards. Luckily, the unit was attached to the smaller unit over the stove, because I discovered that of the four screws supposedly holding up the right unit, two (one at the top and one at the bottom) were screwed into gypsum wallboard. The one into the stud at the top was completely broken off, so the entire unit was being held to the wall by one screw. All of our daily dishes (apart from glasses) were vulnerable because some schmuck — before we bought the house 13 years ago — had done a completely incompetent renovation.
Once we cleared the dishes out, I lifted the cabinet back into position with a car jack, drilled pilot holes into the stud, screwed in half a dozen new screws, and cleaned up the mess — all within an hour.
And I don’t think my wife even won the competition. Some other husband installed a ceiling fan at two in the morning because the family was preparing a guest room for the arrival of a disabled elderly relative.
Sometimes guys are actually useful to have around.
It’s a good thing that you noticed what was happening. Someone could have been badly injured.
There's a great old Canadian TV comedy series called "The Red Green Show" that always featured a segment where Red would engage in some funny,outrageous project to solve some simple problem around the house...DIY-style.The project would always fail but Red would always believe it succeeded.At the end of the segment he'd always say,with a self-satisfied smile on his face,"remember,if the women don't find ya handsome at least they can find ya handy".
Many episodes are on youtube...funny stuff.