Vinyl Follow-up

Okay, so I have realized that I am not a great installer, nor am I a great mechanical-measurer-anything.  I was very excited to pick up the piece of vinyl that I purchased for $10, although I did not realize how long it was.  It should have been a clue when he said, "I will go get the forklift" and here I thought he was just trying to make it easier for him.  When I saw that long tube hanging off of the forks of the lift, I wanted to just crawl in a hole- because guess what else- my back doors to the van were frozen.  Yes, frozen and no, I did not check that nor did I think it would be a big deal because the side doors were fine!  In addition, I was thinking, How am I going to work with that big thing??  As I scrambled to think of a way out of yet another goofy situation, I noticed some other remnants sitting off to the side.  When I awkwardly told him my predicament I quickly added, if I need to I could just swap with one of these and you can keep the difference in price.

You can imagine my surprise when he replied with, "Why don't you just pull around to that door and we will throw some heat on it."  Hm.  Not so easy to get out of.  I obliged, and backed my high-top conversion van into the garage.  He had his heat gun plugged in but it would not turn on.  My stress level was above my eyebrows and I began to sweat.  My arms became itchy as I wished that I could weasel my way out of taking home this piece of vinyl that I knew I could not work with.

The heat gun wouldn't turn on.  He mumbled something about the outlet, and removed his extension cord to a different one on a different wall.  Still wouldn't turn on.  Luck.  What luck!  I teased, "Boy this is the worst sale ever, huh"  To which he was confused, and kind of ignored me.  He did state something about his irritation with his semi-new gun, but then fell silent.  Again, I said, I am totally fine with taking a different piece- the area is not that large.

He reluctantly went with my suggestion, and with a little more luck there was another piece there that ended up to fit in the area almost perfectly, with minimal cutting!  Which is very good because I goofed up horribly, but covered the "injured" area with a rug.  Just perfect- and all for $10.