THE ADVENTURES OF JJ PICKLETOES

I was using this new tool. 

I saw someone else using it. 

I saw that he moved it along the wall until it beeped and then he took his pencil out and drew on the wall! 

It was just a little pencil mark. 

I can make a bigger mark than that with the pencil. 

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Can I draw on the wall now? 

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We will see. 

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Well, I found out that you can’t,  

you can, 

 but you shouldn’t. 

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You get in trouble if you draw on the wall,  

or the floor.  

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Later, my dad took this tool out of the toolbox, and it started beeping right away. 

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Is it defective? 

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He said, it isn’t. .

It is a stud finder, that is why it is beeping. 

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Well, it was beeping when I used it too. 

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I don’t know about these things. 

I just use them. 

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This is one of my first jobs in the house, that I could use a real tool. 

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I had been using the knocking method before this. 

Which is fun. 

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It is not as accurate,  

but my Mom likes it better because you don’t need to use a pencil as well. 

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You just walk around the house knocking on the walls as you go by. 

It is quite fun. 

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Apparently, there is a different sound when you knock on the stud than when you knock on the part of the wall that is hollow. 

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I now know what is going on. 

You take the stud finder and use it to find the stud. 

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You mark the stud, then you draw around the electrical box that you are installing. 

You cut out a hole for the electrical box, using a key hole saw. 

You put a wire in the box and then you put the box in the wall and connect the wires. 

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Nothing to it. 

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I got in trouble for drawing on the wall and the floor with a pencil. 

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It is a good job that I didn’t learn how to use that key hole saw. 

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Do you remember a time when you got in to trouble when you were just trying to help? 

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Let me know in the comments. 

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