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Is 1/4" glass directional? Perry Templeton 09-09-2006
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Posted by Sacramento Dave on September 9, 2006, 11:15 am

> I've done lots of projects with glass and had it cut at my local glass
> shop. I am putting an antique medicine cabinet in a house I'm restoring
> and I needed new glass shelves for it. There was a new girl at the
> counter. When I gave her my measurements, I told her that I wanted 1/4"
> glass and my measurements were 3 1/8" by 15. Then she wanted to know what
> was width and what was length. I told her that as far as I knew, she had
> all the measurements she needed. With some eye rolling on her part, she
> took the order and later in the day, I got a call to pick it up and it was
> fine. I'm thinking she was just new or maybe a little nagging voice in my
> head says *maybe* it makes a difference in what is length or width? I
> doubt it, but I'm throwing it out here anyway.
>
> Perry
>
The owners most likely taught her to take measurements that way.. "There
was a new girl at the counter" Your own words I'm sure she will figure it
out with a little experience.



Posted by Bennett Price on September 9, 2006, 12:43 pm
Any possibility that one long edge was polished/'sanded'/bevelled
after cutting?

Perry Templeton wrote:
> I've done lots of projects with glass and had it cut at my local glass shop.
> I am putting an antique medicine cabinet in a house I'm restoring and I
> needed new glass shelves for it. There was a new girl at the counter. When
> I gave her my measurements, I told her that I wanted 1/4" glass and my
> measurements were 3 1/8" by 15. Then she wanted to know what was width and
> what was length. I told her that as far as I knew, she had all the
> measurements she needed. With some eye rolling on her part, she took the
> order and later in the day, I got a call to pick it up and it was fine. I'm
> thinking she was just new or maybe a little nagging voice in my head says
> *maybe* it makes a difference in what is length or width? I doubt it, but
> I'm throwing it out here anyway.
>
> Perry
>
>

Posted by Perry Templeton on September 9, 2006, 12:54 pm
They all were sanded and smoothed. I seriously doubt if that is the reason
for the bimbette's question, though. I really think she was a "front desk"
idjut and not much more.
Perry
> Any possibility that one long edge was polished/'sanded'/bevelled
> after cutting?
>
> Perry Templeton wrote:
>> I've done lots of projects with glass and had it cut at my local glass
>> shop. I am putting an antique medicine cabinet in a house I'm restoring
>> and I needed new glass shelves for it. There was a new girl at the
>> counter. When I gave her my measurements, I told her that I wanted 1/4"
>> glass and my measurements were 3 1/8" by 15. Then she wanted to know
>> what was width and what was length. I told her that as far as I knew, she
>> had all the measurements she needed. With some eye rolling on her part,
>> she took the order and later in the day, I got a call to pick it up and
>> it was fine. I'm thinking she was just new or maybe a little nagging
>> voice in my head says *maybe* it makes a difference in what is length or
>> width? I doubt it, but I'm throwing it out here anyway.
>>
>> Perry



Posted by EXT on September 9, 2006, 1:16 pm
It sounds like a teenage girl at the cleaners, had to use a calculator to
figure out the change from a $20.00 bill. Counting change up from the amount
of the charges manually was taught in school when I was young, because no
cash register of the day could figure it out and calculators were huge and
expensive (circ. 1950s) and people didn't want to stand around while you did
math on a piece of paper.


> I've done lots of projects with glass and had it cut at my local glass
> shop. I am putting an antique medicine cabinet in a house I'm restoring
> and I needed new glass shelves for it. There was a new girl at the
> counter. When I gave her my measurements, I told her that I wanted 1/4"
> glass and my measurements were 3 1/8" by 15. Then she wanted to know what
> was width and what was length. I told her that as far as I knew, she had
> all the measurements she needed. With some eye rolling on her part, she
> took the order and later in the day, I got a call to pick it up and it was
> fine. I'm thinking she was just new or maybe a little nagging voice in my
> head says *maybe* it makes a difference in what is length or width? I
> doubt it, but I'm throwing it out here anyway.
>
> Perry
>



Posted by HeyBub on September 9, 2006, 4:31 pm
EXT wrote:
> It sounds like a teenage girl at the cleaners, had to use a
> calculator to figure out the change from a $20.00 bill. Counting
> change up from the amount of the charges manually was taught in
> school when I was young, because no cash register of the day could
> figure it out and calculators were huge and expensive (circ. 1950s)
> and people didn't want to stand around while you did math on a piece
> of paper.

For your next cleaning bill of, say, $17.52, give them $21.37.



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