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Monday, April 06, 2009

This Ought to be Good

New week, new Discussion Question:  What's the dumbest thing you've ever done?

posted by Ted @ 13:08  

5 Comments:

  • At 6/4/09 13:17 , Blogger Ted said...

    Just for variety, I'll go first this time: I was about 13 years old when my folks and I were visiting some cousins, all of whom were much older than me. I was shuffled off to a back bedroom to entertain myself while the grown-ups chatted, and found a grenade-shaped bookend. I thought this was cool, so I picked it up and started looking at it. Turns out the pin was removable, and that was pretty neat.

    3...

    2...

    1...

    The damn thing exploded in my hand. Fortunately, it was only a flour grenade used as a training tool by the French military. I (and the rest of the room) was covered in flour, with some serious contusions to my hand. We thought I had broken it, and while the x-rays were normal I still got to spend the next week or so in a splint. And then my pinky fingernail fell off.

    Can anybody top that?

     

  • At 6/4/09 14:00 , Blogger KAISER ANDY I said...

    I held a steel bar so that John could hit it with a sledge hammer.

    Ouch ensued

    Then there was that time I played football barefoot and wound up cutting then nerve in my right foot and having surgery.

    Then there was that time I was changing buses, and crossed the street right as the light changed and was hit by a car.

    Then there was that time I was working on my truck and dropped a starter on my face.

    Then there was that time I removed the extension handle from the jack and the small end smashed me in the face, breaking my glasses and cutting me above the eye.

    Nope. Never done nothin' stupid.

     

  • At 7/4/09 01:16 , Blogger Richard Noggin said...

    Are we talking about physical, self inflicted injuries?

    Using a Skil saw with a broken blade guard to cut up tree limbs. (No stiches oddly enough, but I could see bone in my thumb) Age 15

    Boxer's Fracture of the right hand after punching a wall, (that I didn't know had bricks behind the paneling) while pissed off at a co-worker. Age 34

    2nd degree sunburn drunk at the beach, EVERY FRIGGIN' TIME I GO because I don't have the sense to keep my damn T-shirt on.

    Of course if you want to include non-injury stuff the list is long and distinguished. (And none of anyone's damn business.)

     

  • At 7/4/09 13:33 , Blogger Ted said...

    OK, Seawolf. Now you have to tell us what you've done that was stupid but not painful. Or we could guess....

     

  • At 9/4/09 13:19 , Blogger KAISER ANDY I said...

    I think he means mariage.

     

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