This is going to be totally off kilter, but this is an appropriate group for that sort of thing, so here goes.
Earlier tonight I went out the back, smoking a ciggie I looked at the side wall of the house, then looked at the fence and then looked at the shed, and I realised something so simple that I had always just taken it for granted and always totally overlooked the logical reason behind it.
When putting corregated iron on the side wall of a house, you run the strips horizontally across the wall, but on a fence they are vertical. I always just accepted thats the way it was done and never thought to question why. If someone had asked me why I wouldn't have been able to answer. In fact it wasn't that long ago someone DID ask me that and all I could say was I don't know, it's just done that way.
Tonight, for no particular reason, it occured to me why it was done that way: because it's the most secure way to screw the sheets to their supports. DUH!
Funny how things like that just occur to a tired mind at a time when you weren't even thinking about it, and it makes ya wonder why the heck ya didn't realise that years before. | 
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