Tell me someone else has done this

Dann Crist_3

so that was you ???? :)

Henry_9

I am walking through the airport

let me set the stage: I am in Indiana and I need to tell you, it is hot here. So, my shirt is sticking to me as I walk into the airport and my garment bag keeps sliding off of my left shoulder.

Like any normal person, I overpack the bag so that I do not need to check anything and it is heavy. In the process of using my left hand, I hook the bag with my left thumb, knuckles up as the strap is now down on my left bicep. My thumb slips off the bag, and I hit myself square in the chin so hard I almost knocked myself out.

I hit myself so hard, I forgot to look around and see if anyone was laughing at me. Aside from the fact that I was swearing a silent stream of profanity that Yosemite Sam would have been pround of, by the time I recoverd, anyone that was laughing was surely on their plane.

So, it's just me right.

With a sore jaw to remember my trip by...

Henry Nichols
Viessmann Midwest

Unknown

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

the life of a traveling minstral!

Thanks for making me feel not quite so stupid... I've done this!!

wheels

jackchips_2

One of the

interesting aspects of this wonderful site are the memories that return from reading others stories.

In the late 70's I was doing a gas piping install in a non-heated greenhouse with the temperture below freezing.

One stubborn 1/2" gas cock would not close. I was working on a six foot ladder about half way up. I put two hands on my six inch crescent and pulled down.

Yup, it slipped off and I got myself right in the nose. To this day it's the worse punch I've ever taken but thankfully I did not have any witnesses.

Thanks for the reminder, Henry. LOL

Jack

Henry_9

It gets worse

I stayed in different hotels this week. The second one I stayed in caused a real problem. Picture me trying to get into my room. I am tired and hungry and probably not in the best mood. I am sliding my key, shaking the door handle and the door will not open. At this point I am gettng real ticked because the stupid hotel key will not work and the hotel is clearly out to get me. Well, turns out it was the wrong room....oops, my bad. The people in room 434 (the room I was in the night before in another part of the world) had to be flipping out since a 6'-6" blond headed monster was trying to tear there door down.

When I finally get home, I cannot rememeber where I parked so I am marching around the parking lot for 20 minutes trying to find the Buick. Thankfully, I have a panic button and eventually the horn started blaring. Now I have to replace the battery on my car remote because I must have hit the thing 387 times until I found my car.

I must have hit myself harder than I thought.

All's well that ends well. I got home, one of my boys asked if I had a good week, as soon as I saw the fam, it was.

Henry Nichols

Family man

jim sokolovic

Hey, at least you hit yourself...

I socked some poor woman in the jaw while gearing back to throw a baseball at a carnival game once. I guess the hardness of the ball added to the blow, cause her eyes were really spinning like a slot machine afterward. I had like a hundred people circled around us. "What happened here?" people just arriving asked - "This guy just walked up that women, and punched her in the face!" they were told. I got out of there before the noose was brought out!

Henry_9

Getting off a ski lift once

a group of novices cut right over the lift exit ramp. I could not avoid a body and plowed right into one of them. Why I ever said. "sorry old boy" (like I am British or some rot) I will never know. Well the 50 some odd year old woman looks at me and schreeches....
"OLD BOY!"

Ski...ski...ski like the wind

Henry Nichols

Foot and mouth sufferer

Nron_14

we have all done it

> a group of novices cut right over the lift exit

> ramp. I could not avoid a body and plowed right

> into one of them. Why I ever said. "sorry old

> boy" (like I am British or some rot) I will never

> know. Well the 50 some odd year old woman looks

> at me and schreeches.... "OLD

> BOY!"

>

> Ski...ski...ski like the wind

>

> Henry

> Nichols

>

> Foot and mouth sufferer

Nron_14

we have all done it

was walking out a glass door talking on the cell to sombody who had sprung a leek on there home and was in ahurry and at the same time a teenager was walking toward me I hit the door in a hurry and sent the poor kid flying through the air to land on his back ,knocked the air right out of him , had to take the time to helphem up and brush him off , didnt know what to say though I mean it was a clear glass door

J.C.A._3

Lets see....

Between trying to give someone advice while threading pipe in an auto vice, and getting hit square in the "package" with a threader handle, and almost crushing my own hand between two 2' pipe wrenches , doing the same, I'm gonna have to say that it isn't just you, or any of the other guys either.

We all have to learn to stop "muti-tasking" and consider what's happening right there and then. The brain can only handle so much. Sometimes things we think are easy, become rather difficult when trying to do something else while not thinking.(I think!)

Henry, don't worry brother. We all do stuff like this once in a while. It's part of learning. Chris

Henry_9

Amalgamated Morons Local 6 7/8ths

In the esteemd words of Moe, Larry and Curly:

We are morons tried and true

Watch as we dance for you.

Good to be in the fraternal brotherhood of Everyman

Henry

Moron, medium grade

Carl PE

Henry

No, you're not the only person to have these things happen. We all whack ourselves once in a while.

But seriously.. Stay away from the fireworks this weekend.

Bob Sweet

Early on in my career

was running a kitchen sink drain through a outside wall cleanout, couldn't tell if cable was going up the vent or down the sanitary, leaned down to look and caught my hair (quite short) in the cable. After cussing up a storm and removing some serious scalp I turned around to see the customer watching all of this debacle, quite a humiliating exp. and a GREAT learning exp., no your not alone.

Pinball

Ok here goes.
a number of years ago, I was doing a burner replacement on a big Smith Mills boiler, along with a P&M. To get to the boiler room I had to go down a short hallway that led to the outside door. Since this place was built around the 1920's, the cast iron plumbing was installed as a retrofit. And as such, the 4" drain ran directly across the hall, at about the 5'6" height.(I'm 5'11") Now I had made about 10-15 trips to my truck throughout the day, and knew to duck at the pipe. The last trip out the owner was comming in, and called my name just as I approached the pipe...YUP! I stood up without slowing down. WHAM! right across the forehead! Knocked myself out cold! As I was regaining consiencesnes(?) the owner of the establishment, was standing over me, with a tape measure in his hand, measuring me from head to toe. Oops, did I forget to say this was a funeral parlor?! and the owner worked for the cororners office? HE thought it was real funny! And he thought he was drumming up business! Actually asked me if I was DEAD YET! " NO but I wished I was!"

Al