Coaxial cables & Cake.

The other day Joe and I began some of our own DIY in the apartment and it turned into a parody of relentless mistakes. We had this horrible eye sore of cable tangled up in our living room and wanted to use a staple gun it to the wall to lead it into the computer room. Okay, not so hard.
We borrowed a staple gun and began to fasten it to the wall. Three staples in and it's already falling apart. Staples are too small. We call it quits. Luckily, the next day we come across a staple gun that holds bigger staples. We then resume the task at hand. It's stapling to the wall just beautifully until the unfortunate staple through the cable. To Home Depot we go (and by now, we know our way around that store!). We get there, literally, 2 minutes before closing and they miraculously did not kick us out. We're rushing down the aisles frantically looking for a new cable of the appropriate size and some staples, as we were running low. Thankfully, an employee who I should be on a first-name basis with by now, helped us out without kicking us out.
We get back home with the items we needed and begin to remove the tainted cable. Once we trace it back to where it was hooked up, we cut it. This task is just taking way too long. All we wanted to do was travel the cable to the other room, not make this an Olympic event. Of course, we cut the wrong cable. Luckily it wasn't detrimental to our Internet service.
Finally, after all that nonsense, we hooked up the cable the right way and stapled it beautifully. It was quite a tedious learning experience but when we were through, we had cake.