My neighbor's brickwork advice ended with him in a mud puddle

I was fixing a brick step outside my house. A guy walking his dog stopped to say my joints looked uneven. He picked up a brick to show me, but his dog pulled the leash. He tripped and landed right in a fresh puddle of slurry. We both cracked up, and his dog started barking like crazy. Now he just waves from across the street.

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the_harper2mo ago

Check your joints being uneven isn't always wrong. Some old school bricklayers leave them a bit rough on purpose to help water run off. That guy learned a messier lesson about giving advice while walking a dog though.

andrew72mo ago

Wait, you had slurry just sitting there? @the_harper might be right about the joints.

mila_anderson722mo ago

Yeah, my slurry sat out once and I just mixed in some fresh mortar to fix it.