Stupid things we've done that hurt like hell

New one!

I put my winter tires on the car yesterday. I have a set of all-seasons (curiously named, eh) and a set of winter tires, all on their own rims. Easy peasy changeover. When stacking up the all-seasons, I put one of the tires down on my index finger of my right hand, which wouldn’t have been a problem except on the other side of my finger was a bloody sharp corner of an old furnace. Why was it there? I don’t know, man. I don’t know.

I now have a lovely canyon carved into the top of my first knuckle on that finger. Bled like hell. Yet another physical reminder to myself to be less fucking stupid.
 
I feel your pain.
Couple of years ago I got a compression laceration on my left 🖕. We were stacking RR ties and the tip of my finger got caught between 2 of them. The one on top was around 200lbs. Gloves provided little protection. It was nearly a year before I was able to do bends without experiencing pain.
 
You could opt for the testecuzzi thing someone invented a couple years ago. Might be a regular application type deal.


Just remembered something else incredibly stupid (which incidentally could have castrated me…):
We got one of those InstantPot slow cooker pressure combo things. It's got the main vent valve and then the pressure lock. Turns out you can use a knife to depress it to let more pressure out.

Did that while making a stock, up to the max fill line. After a while of venting normally I thought, hey the pressure surely can't be that much now. So I proceed to press the lock piston in and undo the lid. It was not sufficiently depressurized. A tide of beef stock pushes up the lid after I twist it enough, spilling scalding liquid in all directions. Just the shock of seeing that put me into fight or flight.

I look down and see my sweatpants are soaked and fear the worst. Thankfully just a patch of my inner thigh was burned (already started to blister), but that moment put a great fear into me I haven't experienced much elsewhere.

Don't screw around with pressure cookers, kids.
 
Just attempted to place an order with JLCPCB consisting of 100 items...

The payment page never displayed, my cart is empty, and the order is gone. That's an entire morning wasted. 🤦‍♂️


The stupid part? This isn't the first time I've done this and I know better.

The even stupider part? This won't be the last time I do it, and I know better.
 
Robert said:
Just attempted to place an order with JLCPCB consisting of 100 items...

The payment page never displayed, my cart is empty, and the order is gone. That's an entire morning wasted. 🤦‍♂️


The stupid part? This isn't the first time I've done this and I know better.

The even stupider part? This won't be the last time I do it, and I know better.
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I would have to keep the monitors out of flailing distance. Redoing shit makes me cRaZy
 
Many moons ago and a previous century when I was still polluting myself with tobacco, I was at a less prosperous gas station. The shut off valve/trigger was missing/malfunctioning on the pump and I get my leg coated in 89 octane. my BRILLIANT bum decides that just having the window open is enough 'safety' to partake of a deathstick on the ride home w/o changing my pants... cherry fell off and <fwooooosh>. Get stopped and there's a lovely pile of dirt from somebody doing yard work.. people driving by are giving out WTF looks at this yutz slapping clumps of dirt against his lower leg..
 
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