I know a fellow who has a number of auto transmission repair shops now. He says that back when he was starting out, he changed transmissions in his driveway on his back. He says he cut himself more times than he likes to remember and often had nothing on hand to wrap up his cut hand than black electrical tape. He says he had no choice but to carry on so he would wrap up with tape and keep working. We have become rather soft haven't we? Most of us would not be willing to do so.
Second issue. Got to be careful with bathroom fixtures. A few years back, my wife stepped out of the shower and picked the towel that was laying on the top of the toilet tank. The top of the tank came with the towel, fell to the top of the toilet, broke in half, and then fell the rest of the way, striking her in the ankle and cutting her to the bone. She healed over time. The tank top didn't so I ordered a new one at considerable expense, finally received it, and then remodelled the bath and put in a new toilet a year or so later. Gave the old toilet away with its fresh new tank top. Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald Snook Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:03 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List 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
