Just thought I'd remind everyone that we need to practice safety in EVERYTHING we do.
EVERYTHING...Take for instance, an old grey-haired guy messing with a battery in a seldom-ridden motorcycle.
Let's say the old battery had been on a charger, but wasn't living up to expectations. Let's say the old battery that needed to be replaced happened to be secured in place with an old boot lace. Let's say this old guy didn't want to get up and walk across the garage to his tool box and get a razor knife to cut the boot lace.Let's say this old guy took out his Bic and decided to burn off the old boot lace...
Having been on a charger, the battery apparent had generated a wee bit o' hydrogen. Hydrogen is very combustible in the presence of oxygen. Hydrogen in the presence of oxygen AND a flame combusts very quickly. And, I might add, loudly...:-$
Soooo...Uncle Paden's Safety Tip of the evening goes something like this:
Get up off your fat butt and walk across the garage to get a knife.
ps - grey hair smells the same as any other color hair when singed. :pinch:
Hope nothing but your hair/beard and pride are damaged!
Advice for seniors
What should I not do today?
Almost anything that Paden did yesterday.
Don
[sarcasm]A #3 comb on hair clippers will fix that and take years off your look.[/sarcasm]
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Advice for seniors
............ and will do tomorrow!
Well, lest someone thinks I'm special, I've probably done every thing that could have killed me to the best of my knowledge and belief.
I've always told folks, "Everything I've done correctly is only because I've done it incorrectly several times previous."
That being said; I apparently still do things incorrectly from time to time. For no other reason but to remind myself I still know how. :-S
Life is truly for living.
Hmmmmm….. does Money Penny buy all this? Sounds more like a poor attempt at some sort of cover up. You were really in the barn with the Nun trying to “fire something up” when you missed and set your beard on fire, didn’t you? Huh, didn’t you! 😉
This should be a regular feature on this forum. "Uncle Paden's Safety Tip"
I have some sort of proclivity to mess things up too.
What about taping across the road, and having a car rip the tape right out of your hands?
I should think a trip down memory lane, would yield enough info, to keep us all entertained, for a few years!
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N
I had a faulty motorcycle battery explode 12" from my face while working on it in a garage. I was very lucky, didn't get splashed or burned. The loud bang rang in my ears for hours after the incident.
thanks for the tip, unc. hope the eyebrows grow back.
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i'm busted..
Scary, ain't it?
When I was a young fellow, I had one blow up in a van I was trying to jump start with the tow truck. I was blinded for several hours and deaf for a couple days. Still suffer tinnitus.
I had an "interesting" lapse of caution this morning, although no real danger. I was getting the dental floss out of the medicine cabinet and somehow knocked a bottle out.
Ever see how much of a mess a half-bottle of tincture of iodine can make when it lands on its top on the counter and the cap breaks off so it splatters several feet?
I cleaned up the worst of it, until my eyes started burning. I expect most of the remainder to evaporate. The counter top is already pretty clear. Not sure about some of the other stained places though, like painted surfaces.
Bill, that's called..
...Murphy's Law of Indelibility.
The worse something will stain, the higher up on a shelf it sits AND the cheaper the cap is!
India Ink rates way up there, too.;-)
