I dont know why, but I thought that story was funny --- Kaleb C. Striplin Cox Auto Trader 730 PP Supervisor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald Snook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Virtual Pillory: Come jeer at the idiot! > Casey wrote: > > > > "Hi, my name is Casey, and I'm an idiot." > > > > Welcome to the club Casey. I can certainly relate. It seems like a lot > of the time when I do some automotive project, I make six trips to the > store and usually have to correct something that I screwed up when I was > fixing the previous item. I didn't work on my car this weekend, but I > did some home improvement projects (we are selling our house and I > needed to fix a few things). Here's my dumbshit story: > > > > I had to replace the bathroom faucet. Not that big of a deal, right? > Our house was built in 1929, so it has lots of cool architectural > details and lots of character. What that usually means is that modern > day replacement items don't fit and must be retrofitted in order to > work. We have a pedestal sink in the hall bathroom. I had to move the > pedestal out of the way to get at the plastic nuts that hold the faucet > in place. I had already broken one of the knobs, so I had to replace > the faucet that day. As I am moving the pedestal out of the way, I > twisted it and a large junk broke off in my hand. Because of the awkward > position of my hands and body, my hand dropped the broken piece and slid > straight down the razor sharp edge of the broken porcelain. It cut me > between my thumb and index - badly. It immediately started bleeding. > It was bad, but I had to finish the sink or we have no water in the > bathroom. So, I wrapped it up as well as I could and went back to > working on the faucet. > > > > As you can imagine using tools and twisting and torqueing everything in > there, my bandage would not stay on (not that it mattered it was soaking > through in less than 60 seconds). I probably should have gone to the ER > and gotten it stitched, but that wouldn't be very manly, so I just > worked through it. About 45 minutes later, I was done. It looked like > someone had been murdered in our bathroom. The bathroom is black and > white (lots of white). It looked like the restroom in a slaughterhouse > when I was done. I had gone through all of the gauze bandages in my > first aid kit and had switched to paper towels. > > > > Now, I have to figure out how to glue the pedestal back together or buy > a new one. This is fairly routine. I usually hurt myself in one or the > other for every home improvement project. > > > > If you ever need to clean up a lot of blood, ammonia works pretty well - > smells awful, but it works. > > > > > > Donald H. Snook > > 1990 300SEL 138K (For Sale) > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
