The water heater is leaking.
A friend of mine who is a plumber and I go to Loewe’s to buy another.
He had to attend a pressure test on some gas plumbing he did, so we bought it today, he will do the install tomorrow.
But I digress.
The water heater is on the second tier. I snagged a Loewe’s Guy older even than I. I’ve seen those damn fork lifts they have driving all over the joint, so I figure he will get one. He calls another guy, who doesn’t show up.
So he and my buddy decide to get it off the shelf. I’m 5’3" and dress out at 110.
I stand back.
Until it falls.
Knocks over the Loewes Guy, strikes a glancing blow on my buddy, (I didn’t know he could run so fast) and when I see My Water Heater :rolleyes: heading towards the handle of the cart, I stick my hands out to catch it.
Hence the title of this thread.
I’m the only one that bled!
Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster than the New and Improved Mrs. Plant picked out a wide wedding band. I can’t wear it for a couple of days, but that doesn’t matter. I have an imprint of it on my smushed finger that will last for years, no doubt.
Then the Called Guy shows up.
“Oh, you got it down already?”
Further comments would probably be considered to be Terroristic Threatening, so I will close.
When I worked for Wendy the Witch, she came in one day with a huge black eye, from being hit and knocked down by one of those huge rolling things you put your stuff on at Lowe’s or Home Depot. Those places are dangerous.
One thing I learned from many years of kitchen duty is to never, ever try to stop something from falling.
Especially a knife, or…worse…a roll of foil wrap/saran wrap. The cutting edge on those will saw you to the BONE before you know it, especially the industrial-sized ones. Holy crap.
So, yeah. If something’s falling and it’s not a baby or mewing creature, LET IT FALL. And get out of the way.
I bet your wife will be giggliing about your perma-ring, after you gain use of the finger again.
Did it smush your ring? I had a roll of butcher paper come down on my hand and it was the ring that saved me. I had to pull it off with pliers. Thank goodness for small favors, hmm?
I agree about letting things just drop Taomist. Plus, wear shoes!
On my last day of working for Hardee’s, near the end of my shift, I was working the drive thru and we were pretty busy. I was waiting on a chicken sandwich. I heard the buzzer going off that indicated that the chicken was done in the deep fryer. These were cooked on a flat tray that had another heavy flat tray on top of the chicken breasts. (to keep them from floating around) I pulled up the chicken, grabbed the top tray with my bare hand, put the chicken in the waiting bun, wrapped it up gave the order to the customer and then realized that my hand was burned.
I can wear my wedding band again, and we have hot water.
But when the plumber drops a fitting, and it bounces over a 2" x 4" and rolls to the end of the nasty closet under the stairs, who gets to crawl under there to retrieve it?
Remember 5’ 3", 110 Lbs?
I was working in a room that had one end of 1X6 board set on top of the partially open door and the other end on a shower door. I slightly bumped the door and as I thought “oops! the board…” I looked up to see if it was falling. Bad choice.
It hit me on the bridge of the nose - long ways. I discovered you really do hear birdies flying around your head and singing (just like the Warner Bros cartoons).
To recap, if you think something might be falling on your head, DO NOT LOOK UP TO CHECK, just duck and cover!
