Hey Joseph this same thing happened to me. I always wear my safety glasses and a nail from my framing nailer ricocheted and struck my glasses in the middle of the lens putting a chip in the lens. All I kept thinking was thank God I wore those glasses. None of the other guys on the job site wear theirs even after this incident. It’s a numbers game that you won’t like the odds.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 1, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Joseph Greenleaf <solastob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I heard of a man who gave his son safety glasses for his new construction > job. The son protested, saying he'd look like a geek. He wore them anyway. > That night he came home and showed Dad the ricocheted nail imbedded in the > lens... > >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 10:53 AM Dexter Bland <dexterbl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This topic reminds me of a story I read several years ago. >> A guy and his son are trying out a new lathe the father bought that had an >> electronic speed control that was not what the guy was used to. He chucked >> up a big piece of wood and started to turn it on then remembered to stop so >> they both could put on safety glasses. He then turned on the machine and >> stood back, not realizing that it was 10x's faster than he thought. The >> machine was so out of balance that is started walking across the floor and >> then threw the chunk of wood through the wall of the garage and falling over >> and unplugging itself. His son then turns to his dad and says "good thing we >> put our safety glasses on, huh dad." >> db >> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to >> legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
