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Board Stretcher

Classic carpenter prank on rookies, workplace humor

This is the device that you tell the rookie new-hire carpenter to go get for you out of the foreman's truck so you can get the board he just cut 2 inches too short to fit right in the new kitchen cabinet. It only exists in the minds of awnry carpenters who like to play jokes on the FNG.

Me: "Damn Hector you cut the board too short. Go get the board stretcher out of the foreman's truck, rookie." Hector: "What's it look like?" Me: "You'll know it when you see it. If it ain't there ask the foreman where he has it."

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