Ever do something so stupid you wonder if you should be left unsupervised?

[wyo george]

I know I shouldn't, but I'm gonna go ahead and share my stupidity of the day in hopes that it will brighten someone else's day. If others decide to share their moments of cranial absence then all the better.

So I'm out in the shop a few minutes ago doing some TIG welding on a project for a customer. I have this bad habit of holding my filler rod in my lips while I re-position my work piece. It frees up my left hand and keeps me from trying to pick it back up while wearing gloves (a physical impossibility BTW)

This habit works out just great until I finish a long pass and only have about 3" of filler rod left and immediately grab hold of it with my lips to move my work piece.

I now have a nice little blister from where I was awesomely stupid enough to actually burn my lips while TIG welding!!:tard:

 

[Daedalus]

I worked in a kitchen with a cook who had a habit of grabbing empty pans off the stack and off the burner and spinning them with a flourish while moving them around. One time the pan was not empty, but had about 2 oz of oil that had been heating over the burner for several minutes. Left a nice splatter burn scar across his face.

All my stupid stuff I keep to myself.

 

[abk241]

Your supervisor could have been standing right there and not been able to stop you.

 

[Uncle_Charlie]

I know I shouldn't, but I'm gonna go ahead and share my stupidity of the day in hopes that it will brighten someone else's day.

The title alone made me giggle.

 

[wyo george]

I'm just in awe that I managed something so dumb. I've been welding for over 20 years and I've never before managed to burn my lips!

Oh well, I actually got a pretty good laugh out of it and so did my Dad and brother when I called them.

Break's over, time to get back to work before the boss gets mad at me! (I'm the boss...)

 

[58Yeoman]

And the buck in your avatar was watching you thinking "stupid human tricks"...

He's got that look on his face.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I borrowed a buddy's folding cherry picker last week. I unloaded it into the garage but had to take it to the other side. That door was too small so it was back out the overhead door and into the walk in door.

This thing has already mashed my buddy's thumb almost to the point of losing part of it. As I tried to move it, it slide forward and I basically rode it to the floor. As I went in the front door, this thing was equally being mean trying to get me. I felt like a little kid playing with something that I shouldn't have been touching.

After he came out, we both agreed the thing has a death wish and is trying to kill somebody.

 

[goodysgotacuda]

I know I shouldn't, but I'm gonna go ahead and share my stupidity of the day in hopes that it will brighten someone else's day. If others decide to share their moments of cranial absence then all the better.

So I'm out in the shop a few minutes ago doing some TIG welding on a project for a customer. I have this bad habit of holding my filler rod in my lips while I re-position my work piece. It frees up my left hand and keeps me from trying to pick it back up while wearing gloves (a physical impossibility BTW)

This habit works out just great until I finish a long pass and only have about 3" of filler rod left and immediately grab hold of it with my lips to move my work piece.

I now have a nice little blister from where I was awesomely stupid enough to actually burn my lips while TIG welding!!:tard:

My stupid-hot mistake was trying to hold something to solder [wiring] and reached for the iron without taking my eye off of what I was holding.

You can pickup a soldering iron backwards.

But it burns like hell!

 

[killahog]

Okay I will play, while camping a long time ago I was watching some flying squireels gliding down from the treetops and landing on a feeder I had set up. I was getting closer and closer to them and had the bright idea I could grab one and hold it harmless with my hand on it's back just to get a good look at it. Well I did mange to ****** one from the feeder, and it began biting the **** out of my right hand, it seemed like it had a mini chainsaw in its mouth. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to switch hands so I grabbed it with the other hand. Well that kinda felt like I just grabbed a running sewing machine. Now I just sit back and watch the evil little rodents.

 

[reyna14]

One time I tried to unplug a radio from an extension cord using my right and and my mouth. Drooled a little bit and got one hell of a shock. I would have use both hands but I was holding a plate of cheescake in my left one. At least I put the fork down.

 

[SweetD]

Using a finish nailer on a small project about 10 years ago, no safety glasses. Shot a nail, not sure what it hit, but came right back at me and embedded itself about 1/4" above my left eye, like in my lower eyebrow. Not too deep, but enough to bruise and hurt, and bleed. Easily could have lost my eye.

Guess what I always wear now, no matter what?



Dave

 

[Hobbit]

All can say is don't ironing cloths naked, drunk & distracted by the television. It can ruin your love life for a while.

 

[fireguy]

All can say is don't ironing cloths naked, drunk & distracted by the television. It can ruin your love life for a while.

We all thank you for not showing us pictures.

 

[NUTTSGT]

All can say is don't ironing cloths naked, drunk & distracted by the television. It can ruin your love life for a while.

I've always told my buddies not to shave naked. If you drop the razor, it's going to fall straight down and what's straight down below the waist ?

 

[ChevyEFI]

I got my leg with the weed eater and a splash of plumbing acid.on hands / legs in the last couple months. LOL.

 

[MScott]

Okay I will play, while camping a long time ago I was watching some flying squireels gliding down from the treetops and landing on a feeder I had set up. I was getting closer and closer to them and had the bright idea I could grab one and hold it harmless with my hand on it's back just to get a good look at it. Well I did mange to ****** one from the feeder, and it began biting the **** out of my right hand, it seemed like it had a mini chainsaw in its mouth. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to switch hands so I grabbed it with the other hand. Well that kinda felt like I just grabbed a running sewing machine. Now I just sit back and watch the evil little rodents.

This one reminded me of when I was a kid. I saw a bumble bee go inside a hollyhock flower and decided I could capture it by closing the flower over it. Those damned things can sting right through flower petals.
Of course I have done many stupid things to myself over the years since then but I'm going to keep them to myself.

 

[Roysinthebarn]

Was welding up a metal frame for a deck chair did not have a real good ground while holding a small metal tab I was tacking to the frame the welder skipped. Of course the wire went right through my miller gloves and the end of my thumb then arced again when it came out the other side and hit the frame.

 

[wyo george]

Now I don't feel so dumb. Well, actually I feel just as dumb as before, but at least I know I'm not lonely! Thanks for sharing your momentary lapses!

 

[stikman56]

At times I wonder if my brain actually has an "off" switch, to be honest.

 

[Duct Tape Man]

One time at a previous job I worked night shift, I had way too much free phuckin time on my hands, and I used some excess PVC pipe to build a potato gun. It had a BBQ grill sparker on it to light the chamber. Anyways, end of the shift, first thing in the morning, took it out the back door and showed it off to a couple other employees, and a supervisor, who wanted to see it work. Had a blast sending a couple spuds downrange. The supervisor said she wondered if the thing was really safe, and was happy noone got hurt. I promptly checked down the barrel to see how the inside of the contraption fared during the firing, I clicked the sparker and a small fireball shot out (no potato was loaded). There must have been some residual propellant (Aqua-Net hair spray) in the chamber, it ignited and out came the fireball. Which blew my eyebrows off, and started the supervisor screaming and running in circles. It looked worse than it was, but other than my missing eyebrows, no harm done. That's the last time they allowed me to build anything at that place in my free time.

 

[thundermug]

About 15 years ago I sprayed a bunch of hair spray into an empty water color bottle. I figured if I light it, a flame would shoot out the back. Well, it did, and I got severe burns to my left hand and wrist.


Last week I got careless with an angle grinder at work. It kicked back and got tangled up in my sweat shirt. If I had been in only a t-shirt, I would be missing a ******. No big loss.

 

[AmickRacing]

I have 2 bad habits that don't interchange well. When I weld (tig or gas) I bend one end of the rod (and use the other) this way I know which end is the hot end. Well, at work I braze copper a lot (hvac), well almost always have one end bent so I can reach around a pipe easier.

Sadly I haven't burnt my lips once, but more like 2-3 times, once even got my tongue. So from here on out, I never hold any objects with my mouth. I'll take a burn on a finger any day over my lips!

 

[jw1968]

Haven't done the tig thing , but I have flipped up my hood at the end of a stick weld bead, and promptly chipped off a nice hot piece of slag that stuck instantly to my lip. BTW didn't feel good either

 

[nicksL98]

You pretty much had to be there for a lot of mine. Short story, when you're 16 and listened to Eddie Murphy talks about his uncle Gus and the BBQ... So you pour like a 1/4 of a gallon on top of a larger bonfire. Then you think safety, stand back 6 feet and start throwing lit twisted papers at it, but that's not working. So, you move closer and BOOM! flash! Bingo!!! We have a winner! It took 3 months for my arm hair to grow back.

 

[getbent4x4]

Not me but the welder at one place I worked at rarely stood behind the welding curtain in the shop and just would start welding where ever. Can't tell you how many times a day I've caught that damn welding light. Seems like I'm the only one who cared, one parts vendor did complain about the same thing at his place of work. The guys would just ignore you when u complained about it, stating they been doing for years, blinding everyone. Supervisor was damn near worthless, don't miss that one. He probably had less sense than the welder.

 

[Joe69]

I have put my bare hand down on a weld I just finished minutes earlier, blisters follow.

Joe

 

[Foggy50361]

I have put my bare hand down on a weld I just finished minutes earlier, blisters follow.

Joe

I call them Pink Floyd moments (momentary lapses in reasoning), I did something similar to the above as an apprentice. Finished a welding project, talking to a mate, go to pick up just finished welding project. This is the bit that I still don't understand, your average Joe would have promptly dropped the very hot item and then put hand in cold water, right. Not me, for some reason I thought it was a good idea to give my hand some company in the quenching tank about 8' away instead of the sink around the corner. And with ten apprentices using the tank through out the morning it wasn't that cold. It all made sense in my head till the instructor pointed out that I was bat sh*t crazy. Took a while to live that one down.

 

[jmarkwolf]

one time i tried to unplug a radio from an extension cord using my right and and my mouth. Drooled a little bit and got one hell of a shock. I would have use both hands but i was holding a plate of cheescake in my left one. At least i put the fork down.

lol!

 

[Jetfixr320]

All can say is don't ironing cloths naked, drunk & distracted by the television. It can ruin your love life for a while.

Stop watching **** while Ironing clothes!

 

[72Corvette]

When I was in a woodworking class in school I was using a power mortise machine that lowered the bit via a foot pedal. I set the machine up, put the wood in, cut it on and had the feeling that something wasn't right. Cut it off and completely checked the set up. I went through this routine three times and then decided it was all in my head. When I put the foot pedal down and then released it I then realized I hadn't lowered the guard. The work piece came flying up and caught my finger. Now all I had to do was push the pedal down and take my finger out but with all the blood and pain I just pulled my finger out making it worse. the most painful though is when the teacher came over and asked me how it felt to be stupid.

 

[Hghgrad]

I just shocked the **** out of myself plugging my truck in. Wet cord, wet hands, and a stubborn block heater plug. I'm sure it'll happen a few more times this winter

 

[Nick Danger]

The lead mechanic handed me a hammer and a box of punch stamp numbers and told me to stamp the stainless steel work table with numbers every inch so people wouldn't have to use a yardstick. I was up to the mid-teens before I realized that I had skipped number 3, and everything after that was wrong.

I finally went back and stamped them deeper with the right numbers. I had to look at those double-stamped numbers every day for years and felt stupid every time.

 

[2CRUZ]

I filled up the coffee maker and pushed the on button. The phone rang and I set the pot down on the counter and walked in the other room to talk on the phone. I even sat down in the recliner talking to friend. Needless to say coffee ran all over the counter and down on the floor. The older I get the dumber I get.

 

[tavernaut]

I'm that guy. It's me. I'm that guy that everybody knows about, but nobody actually knows.

I'm the guy who pulled the intake off his car, and packed shop rags in the heads to keep garbage from falling down the intake runners. And then I put the new intake on. And then I broke my *** for a couple hours, with an engine that would just barely try to light off, over and over again. Then I noticed that there were NOT 8 shop rags on the workbench next to the car. They were still in the heads...

And then I pulled the heads and freshened up the valve job.

 

[Tucko]

About 25 years ago, as a young sheet metal apprentice, I was bending up a stainless steel countertop and backsplash. It was probably 20-22ga, and my last bend overbroke a little bit. So instead of the backsplash part being at 90 degrees from the countertop, it was about 95 degrees and wouldn't hug the wall. Stupid me decided it would be a good idea to whack the **** out of it with a mallet. Hammer marks on stainless show up when the light/shadow are just right. Lucky for me, the top part of the backsplash was to be covered up with something else, and my *** was saved...

 

[raddksn]

One split second of not paying attention! (OUUCH)!!!

 

[Todd.Brock]

I caught the wrong end of a subpanel last week. Fort it was only one leg of the 240. That breaker has been off for weeks. I have no idea how it got turned back on. Guess that's why they make common sense.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

I caught the wrong end of a subpanel last week. Fort it was only one leg of the 240. That breaker has been off for weeks. I have no idea how it got turned back on. Guess that's why they make common sense.

That's also what they make LOTO kits for... Glad you're OK.

Tommy

 

[vagabondmidget]

I hate that forethought before you do something that says "if you do this you are probably going to hurt yourself", low and behold every time it hurts.

I need a sign in the garage that says "Stupidity Should Be Painful"

 

[G_P]

Had an old 80's F150 truck I used for snow plowing. Got up one morning and headed out. Made it a mile down the road when the truck suddenly sounded like an airplane. Downpipe had fallen off the exhaust manifold due to rust. I had it held on temporarily with some clamps until I had time to replace the studs. It was about 4am and I was most definitely not fully awake because I just reached right in and grabbed the extremely hot pipe in an attempt to move it back into place and retighten the clamp. Spent the rest of the day driving around plowing with a blistered left hand.

I felt like a complete idiot after that one!