I never more than once tried to slap a sanding belt clean (bare handed) while running my portable belt sander......
Peed on an electric fence once...I was a kid and my brother made me do it, right before that he got me to eat a live grasshopper...told me there was chocolate inside
One out of every 3 posts I put on here seems to be me admitting how I screwed sumthin up. That oughta do it...
My momma told me, someday when your 90 and he's 95 you can beat the crap outa him, made me feel better at the time...not sure how that's gonna work out now.
When we were teenagers the was a jet black bull in a fenced in field by my cousins house. At night when it was pitch dark we jump over the fence and go ten or twenty feet into the field, man we were stupid. Nobody ever got killed, but I think of it now.......
I started early in life, and remember one incident vividly, 62 years later. @ 4 yo I took a old fashioned steel fishing rod and stuck it in a energized light socket. ............Need I say more? Since then, I have had probably hundreds of educational lessons, self taught, over the ensuing years........and the learning curve continues, God only knows for how many more....................
I remember as a kid thinking how pretty the glowing coils on the stovetop looked, so I decided to touch it! And somehow I didn't learn my lesson, as I still manage to touch something REALLY hot about once a month in the kitchen.
OK I got to tell this one.. few years back leaving work at 5 heavy traffic.. in 3/4 of mile to interstate entrance I stopped and let state trooper go ahead of me while passing barracks 5 minutes later I pull on to entrance ramp as entering interstate in 3rd gear with traffic going 15 mph below limit I step on it kick the turbo and pass same trooper.. of course he lights me up and I pull over I can see him laughing at me in rear view as he walks too car.. no ticket but on the warning he wrote please engage brain before gear selector.. of course about 20 people in office saw it... rest of month I heard about it