It's Official, I'm an idiot!

[Romer]

I'll play.
. . . .with the help of my 3 year old daughter.

No, wait tell she is sitting on your lap and you quickly jump to Mud and she asks you about the picture of the naked lady.

 

[-Spike-]

we were doing some troubleshooting on a 727 elevator, we were removing and installing the ~70 pound PCA over and over again trying to find and repair play to pass a checkout, I got tired of doing it by hand (read lazy) so I fabbed up a quick harness to use the overhead hoist, worked great until it got caught up and I pressed the up button one to many times, the harness let go and a 1/4 million dollar actuator came crashing down from over my head and and dam dam near broke my leg, fortunately the shop was able to rebuild it.

I also accidentally blew a slide (happens a lot) luckily for mine the bottle was pinned so it just flopped out but did not inflate, still had to be replaced, also drove a flap into an open access panel damaging both,

Which airline did you say you work for? Hold on a sec, let me get a pencil and paper...

-Spike

 

[RavenTai]

The one from here with an excellent safety record

 

[concretejungle]

man, this could be an entire thread on its on...let me contribute, again!

I was wiring in my hellas. thought i had everything finished so attached the wires to the battery terminals. Well, i had not attached the wires to the button. They were actually dangling behind the button in the dash. So i reached back to pull them out to attach them to the button (live!) when they touched completing the circuit. The wires immediately glowed red and started to melt the insulator off them. I had smoke rolling out from under the hood and dash! I thought for sure my truck was going to burn down. Finally one of the wires actually melted in half and thus broke the circuit.

Idiot!

 

[Beowulf]

I had smoke rolling out from under the hood and dash!

Now we're getting somewhere. See, I told you never to do anything that lets the smoke out. It get's really scary in a hurry.

-B-

 

[Beowulf]

bong = water tobacco pipe

Seems counter-intuitive. Wouldn't the water put out the burning tobacco? This assumes you're using the pipe the burn the tobacco but I can't think of anything else one would do with a pipe and tobacco.

-B-

 

[concretejungle]

Seems counter-intuitive. Wouldn't the water put out the burning tobacco? This assumes you're using the pipe the burn the tobacco but I can't think of anything else one would do with a pipe and tobacco.

-B-

I agree; does sound a little strange. Water and burning don't seem to mix. Put water in a pipe used for burning and it sounds real strange. ;p

 

[sjcruiser]

Seems counter-intuitive. Wouldn't the water put out the burning tobacco? This assumes you're using the pipe the burn the tobacco but I can't think of anything else one would do with a pipe and tobacco.

I agree; does sound a little strange. Water and burning don't seem to mix. Put water in a pipe used for burning and it sounds real strange. ;p

Sounds like you guys got try this bamboo bong - I'm sure it put the man to the ground afterwards

 

[GXO]

Seems counter-intuitive. Wouldn't the water put out the burning tobacco? This assumes you're using the pipe the burn the tobacco but I can't think of anything else one would do with a pipe and tobacco.

-B-

Google it...my work is done here

 

[Marc DDS]

DIY...

I was working on my exaust one day and it starts to rain. Me being the genius decide to put a tarp over the rig and attached to the garage. (note my cruiser does not fit in the garage) I am working along just fine when I hear a lovely crash. One of the Cement blocks I had used to hold the tarp had fallen off the roof and smashed the rear window of the rig. I also got some beautiful body damage from the falling object.

Lesson, saving money doing my own exhaust cost me 3x if I would have let someone else do it for me. O-well live and learn.

 

[Beowulf]

Marc,
Since it appears you are a dentist, I'll tell a story on a good friend of mine. He is a dentist who came from a small town in East Texas and had a frugal father that was a mechanic. My friend learned both frugality and auto mechanics and though he made well into 6-figures, he would still do his own work on his truck.

One evening he was replacing a clutch (by himself) and the tranny fell and crushed his left hand. A dentist mind you with a broken hand is looking at a big problem. He had his wife drive him to his office where he got a small mirror (dental instrument) then they went to the ER and had the doctor set the cast and position his left had like he holds the mirror when he does exams. Never missed a day and never had to reschedule a patient but someone else had to finish the clutch job.

-B-