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Well, one time at band camp, I stuck a flute.........

pmsl

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Hi ,
   I've done a lot of stupid things , but I'll just recount
two of them here...........
   First of all.........
NEVER , NEVER , NEVER ,
get drunk , fasten a lawn chair to a pair of water skis ,
tie on the tow rope , and go skiing with a beer in one hand and a cooler in the other...........
    The second was just last summer . My bro and I were scuba diving our favorite lake
and we found a large old anchor . Well I decided I had to have it , and well , have you ever tried to surface carrying an anchor ? So I popped a portable buoy on it
so we could come back for it .
   The next week we came back with a lift bag , everything went smoothly ,
we found it , strapped on the lift bag and started filling it from my octopus . I could'nt have had more than a few cubic foot of air in it before this thing lunged off the bottom . first it almost dragged me with it , then after I got control of the situation , and started to ascend under it , the thing must have broke surface , and somehow lost the air in the bag . Well I was only about eight foot off the bottom on my way up when this anchor came past me free falling . You can imagine how it was moving , we were in about forty foot of water .
Let's just say I'll be a lot more carefull next time.......
( It was still fun though ).....

Five things I have learned...

1.  When using a grinder on a charged ammonia coolant system, ensure that the hole you grind is facing away from you, as the 9 foot high green ammonia flame that shoots out of it may cause burns.

1.5  It takes about 20 minutes for a huge cloud of ammonia gas to dissipate.

2.  Never scuba dive off of a sail boat in high winds.

3.  If you wake up with a broken leg and the dog has a shaved eyebrow, only the dog will truly know what happened.

4.  Tossing high charge capacitors at your friends is only funny until they toss one back at you.

5.  Snowmobile skis are not capable of supporting the sled if you drive it down a cliff.

Several reasons.

1.  Sailboats have very high gunwales, making them very difficult to re-board from the water, even in calm seas.

2.  As a result of 1, the way you reboard is remove your kit in the water, tie it off, and climb up the little aluminum ladders, then haul your gear on board.

3.  High winds == high seas.  This means that the sail boat will be rising and falling with those high seas.  So one moment, that ladder will be four feet over your head, and the next it will be slamming down so you can step onto it, and ride it up high like a rodeo horse, assuming you don't get crushed by it first.

4. Because your gear is tied off, you now have to fight the high seas and winds to get it back on board.

5. If you don't do a good job tying it off, you might find your brand new scuba rig floating down wind.

Sail boats make crappy dive boats in general.  It crappy conditions, they can be downright dangerous to dive from.

Beat up and off duty sheriff over a girl, maybe not so stupid until I started paying for it over and over.

Now I am older and wiser,still a Lover but not a fighter!!!!

Wayne P

ok,
I am thnking the stupidist thing i have ever done ( or one of the many, too many to remember) was when i had  a motorbike when i was 16 or 17. I had an old oil can ( a castrol gtx) I had used it to fill it wit hpetrol but once emptied I thought it would be a good idea to light it, so I did.
It never blew up into flame like I thought. I only lit a small flame on the nozzle, the kind you get when you light a meths burner or a parafin heater, that sort of flame flickering around the top of the can.
I was so disapointed in the flame I thought I would blow it out with a puff of breath from my lungs......

Well, it never blew out as the flame survived on the fumes within so I lay the 5ltr container on its side and jumped upon it while looking down WHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHHH
a big flame seemed to appear from the nozzle and engulf me in this big yellow light.
I emreged from the light wit ha black face, no eye lashes, hardly any eye brows and very singed long hair.

Yep, that might be one of the stupidist things I have done.
apart from this one time at............

Ken

The most stupid thing i ever done in my lifetime.

Was to believe everyone i met were genuine people. That all friends were loyal.

and nearly drowning 3 times through my own stupidity.   I simply Panicked when i should have kept my head

above the water at least.   .

Old Doll.

Ps Tim0473, no need to panic, nothing ever falls from an empty nest.

Well thats the news for now.. No offence  meant, just jesting with ya.

lol thanks doll!  I could go on about the time I was little and got myself stuck in a wicker hamper (laundry basket) and poked my finger through the hole, which quickly became stuck, only for the baby sitter to keep yanking on my finger till it swelled, and a frantic call by the neighbor to my mother who was playing bingo to come home because something happened to her son ... taking her son, who mind you was taking a bath at the time when he decided to climb into this hamper, naked and wet with his finger poking through the hamper to the emergency room while still in the hamper and the doctors laughing hysterically

Thank God I am still to young to remember all of this although I remember my finger through the hole in the hamper

Well today I meet a young gentleman at the local music store. I talked to him for awhile and he seemed like a real stand up kid. I then went and spoke to the owner (a friend of mine) and during the conversation the subject of the young man came up. Seems he's been taking lessons for about a year and has always rented a guitar due to a poor situation at home. So in a moment that I thought was kindness (but now I feel a little stupid) I went home and got one of my less expensive guitars (A '95 S&P Pro curly maple) and went back to the music store. Yep, I pulled the kid to the side after his lesson and handed him the guitar!!! Yep just gave it to him. Man I miss my baby all ready...lol On the other hand it feels good to help out a kid with a dream to play but not the funds.... He promises to take the utmost care of it and return it to me as soon as he can save up to buy his own.... Maybe....