I do not get my parents. I recently got seriously injured working for them for free on a barn structure/large shed.
For some stupid reason, everybody seems to believe they designed the trusses for the roof. A roof truss is a configuration of wooden boards (usually 2 x 6s or 2 x 8s) held together to form the slope of a roof and the rafters/ceiling. It has what you mathy types would call a rise over run slope where a 6/12 roof goes up 6 inches for every 12 inches across it is. I have the blueprints for them....
I don't know why this was a bone of contention in the first place. They got a building out of it and I worked my butt off for them until I was seriously hurt. Somehow not good enough and mom was complaining that the emergency room billed her separately for the tentinus shot (for the nail that went into my head).
Mom, for some stupid reason, believes she designed the truss because she got a picture of one off the internet. A.) She didn't do crap, the person who posted it to the internet did. That's like saying you drew the mono lisa because you printed out a picture of it from the net. B.) That didn't tell her any of the measurements or angles needed. In her words to me, "You didn't design anything, all you MIGHT have done sweetie (condescending voice) is help your dad out with some of the numbers."
The numbers? You mean like, how long the boards have to be, what angles you need to put them together at, how many metal braces you need, and all of the important stuff except a freaking picture? She doesn't even know any of the math required to figure out how to build any of this stuff. It doesn't necessarily have to be advanced trig, but you have to really be exact, because if you're not, then you'll have differences between the trusses and your roof will be all messed up.... That's the most horseshit logic ever:
[Sarcasm] See that? That's the Mona Lisa. Sure some guy might have figured out some of the numbers about how long the brushstrokes were and how they fit together, but here's a picture. Clearly, I designed the Mona Lisa....
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I don't know how in the crap it came up anyhow, but it's another stupid thing supporting her BS idea that I don't do anything or know how to do anything. I didn't ask to be paid ANYTHING for my labor on this thing or for the pain from the injury. My god, could they give me even credit for ANYTHING?