Or maybe one of those "here hold my beer and watch this" moments.
After getting my outside spicket thawed out yesterday I decided it would be fun to spray water all over the sidewalk and drive. Long story short I later face-planted big time. The right eye is swollen shut now. In fighter pilot vernacular I "augured in". No doubt once the swelling goes down I'm sure to have a nasty shiner. I'm surprised it didn't break skin and have me bleeding all over. I sure hit hard enough and it sure felt like a gun shot going off in my head when that oblate ellipsoid gravity pull got a hold of me. As Sheldon once said "oh gravity, thou are't a heartless b!tch". Roger that!!!
In the end I give myself a Darwin award.
Dumb ass on me!!!
Things sure are weird looking out of one eye.
I won't be doing that anytime soon. I promise.
E.
One criterion for the Darwin Award is the subject has removed self from the gene pool. Did you have other damage besides your head?
That's a fair enough question. The fire department just left thinking I had a busted water main. Apparently there was a busted pipe down the street and they were worried about here. I told them about taking several hours to thaw the outside spicket yesterday and fessed up about the closed eye. We all laughed some. They saw I was ok so they went on their way.
As to other damages, my neighbor's boy (about 30) fell on top of me so I reckon I broke his fall. I'm the only one with serious damage - so far. But, the day is still early. 😀
Well now you remember what pain feels like.
Try and not forget so soon.
Better put down some sand or salt before someone really gets hurt.
Boys will be boys.
Did the same to the trampoline last night.
I'm working on it already. As much as I don't like getting hurt I sure don't want anyone to get hurt on my behalf.
“I decided it would be fun to spray water all over the sidewalk and drive”
Well E, as Forrest Gump said: “stupid is as stupid does”
Just fooling with you. 😉
SWMBO quotes Forrest to me on numerous occasions. Especially if it involves “fixing” things around the house. I.e.: plumbing and drywall or the damn garbage disposal. Of course me being a self-proclaimed “if it’s put together, it can be taken apart genius/idiot” can always fix anything with duct tape and a hammer. (I’m not allowed to bring screwdrivers in the house anymore after the drywall, plumbing, garbage disposal incident).
Hope you get well soon. B-)
You got off easy this time BigE. Around these parts I take that ice stuff really serious. I 'augered in' a few years ago after taking two steps into a parking lot after skiing off a nearby mountain top incident free and spent an evening in the ER with a busted wrist that didn't totally heal up for a year.
You are probably luck you landed on the soft(front) side of your skull.
That's what saved Bocephus' life, in 1975.....
Being a mid-west southern Illinois farm boy our "thing" was bailin wire and pliers. Throw in some duct tape for good measure. 😀
> You are probably luck you landed on the soft(front) side of your skull.
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> That's what saved Bocephus' life, in 1975.....
The difference being he had "pills and 90 proof" if we are thinking of the right feller.
Although I had fallen earlier and got a lump on back of my head. That should have learned right there.
E,
Just for "self insurance" you should take a look at the link below: 🙂
As far as the causes go, I certainly fall in the first two categories - no pun intended. Concussion? Maybe, but I'm not having any serious headache. Nothing much more than the usual constant ringing in my ears. That's been going on for 20 or so years.
Yip, almost anything is fixable with baling wire and pliers. Growing up, I thought it was mandatory for holding up exaust systems on all cars and trucks.
> That's a fair enough question. The fire department just left thinking I had a busted water main. Apparently there was a busted pipe down the street and they were worried about here. I told them about taking several hours to thaw the outside spicket yesterday and fessed up about the closed eye. We all laughed some. They saw I was ok so they went on their way.
> As to other damages, my neighbor's boy (about 30) fell on top of me so I reckon I broke his fall. I'm the only one with serious damage - so far. But, the day is still early. 😀
Should have just told them that some crazy lguy sprayed down your concrete, but that you didn't want to name any names to protect the half-wit. 😉
> Yip, almost anything is fixable with baling wire and pliers. Growing up, I thought it was mandatory for holding up exaust systems on all cars and trucks.
10-4 on that John. We also used bailing wire and pliers to fix our moto-cross bikes. Unless you put one down really hard they were pretty much fixable.
E, as soon as I quit laughing and clean the coffee off of my keyboard, I will attempt to post something a little more meaningful ...... damn son!!
:pinch: o.O
-JD-
Yeah leave it to me to do some stupid crap. At least no one got hurt but me.
How's that coffee and keyboard mixture working out for ya? I'm still finding this one-eye business quite strange. At least it's kind of trying to open up some.
I have managed to get most of the ice off the sidewalk. Them fire department fellers this morning were slipping and sliding all over. And, they told me to be careful. 😀
Keyboard has dried out. What ever possessed you to spray your driveway down with water? Maybe not a Darwin Award, but most certainly a "Hold my beer and watch this" incident! I had some fun with some idiotic kids in the neighborhood that liked to knock over garbage cans with their cars. Filled a can up with snow, saturating it with water until I had a 33 gallon ice cube. All kinds of grill parts and headlight parts all over the road. Never had a problem with them rascals again!
-JD-
