# A Dumb Thing I did **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522 "2011-11-20T05:16:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/1 "2011-11-20T05:16:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/2 "2011-11-20T05:20:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/3 "2011-11-20T05:24:04Z")
Apparently I escaped lightly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/4 "2011-11-20T05:32:25Z")
Oh, Alice… Wendy the Witch? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/5 "2011-11-20T06:27:21Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/6 "2011-11-20T07:25:00Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/7 "2011-11-20T13:21:22Z")
**carnivorousplant** , that could only be funnier if you’d stood Superman-like in front of it. Next time you go to Loewe’s, wear your undies on the outside. _Don’t_ wear a cape. You’d look like an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/8 "2011-11-21T21:31:02Z")
Amateurs can’t just drop by Lowes and catch water heaters. You need to be a [professional](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogd9VFolhsg). ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/9 "2011-11-21T21:32:51Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Oh, Alice… > Wendy the Witch? Oh, sorry I missed this- she is a doctor that I worked for for a few very bizarre and mind-fucking months. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/10 "2011-11-21T21:55:19Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > Amateurs can’t just drop by Lowes and catch water heaters. > > You need to be a [professional](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogd9VFolhsg). That’s pretty much how it went down. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/11 "2011-11-22T02:45:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/12 "2011-11-22T03:41:21Z")
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? Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/13 "2011-11-22T22:45:04Z")
I was ironing once and put the iron on the resting plate, where it rocked then slooowly fell off the board. I actually started to put my hand out to catch it - I _heard my brain yell STOP IDIOT!_ and pulled it back in time to let it fall… ---
**Author:** ![dham61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@dham61](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dham61)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/14 "2011-11-23T04:35:25Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-dumb-thing-i-did/603522/15 "2011-11-23T13:37:55Z")
Reminds me of the time I dropped the big, heavy, sharp, pointy tipped carving knife on Thanksgiving. My brain stopped me from trying to catch it, but for some reason **DIDN’T** tell me to _ **move my foot** _. Straight in. 8 stitches. Ouch. Stupid Brain.