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Default Ever had that satisfied feeling with overkill ?

(following on from a comment in another thread).

Have you ever put up with something, maybe made numerous temporary
repairs, and then snapped and threw total overkill at the problem ?
And then stepped back and thought "Now break you ****er" ?

Here's a recent example : we have a bird feeder, which I hung off a
nail on our fence. It used to keep getting knocked/blown off, and I
tried bending the nail, and then changing it for a cup hook (which
didn't work as it was too close to the fence then).

Finally after a few weeks of this I snapped, and spend a few minutes
rummaging in the garage till I came across an old shelf bracket. I
screwed that to the fence (3 screws !) , made an "S" hook to hang the
feeder from, and it's stayed up since.

It's hard to define the smugness I felt when I stepped back and
thought : "NOW fall down - I dare you !".

I've had a similar feeling replacing compression joints with soldered
ones too ....