# Your most "guy" moment
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 7, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693 "2003-08-07T23:20:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/21 "2003-08-08T13:35:25Z")
The wife and I bought a victorian “fixer-upper” house last year. She liked it because it was quaint and it would be a good project to spend time together doing. I liked it because we got it for pennies on the dollar, and I was looking forward to the multitude of Guy Moments that I would experience along the way.
Most recent Guy Moment. Buying a huge crowbar, and tearing down an old and crumbling ceiling that needed replaced anyway. Then deciding, while putting the ceiling back up, to install recessed lighting, and cabling to support the LAN I’m going to install throughout the house.
Honorable mention. Renting a truck and going to the local architecture recycling place to buy 11 theater seats, at 6 bucks each, that were ripped out of an old local theatre while they were renovating it. It’s the first step to building my own theater in my attic.
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### Author:  [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/22 "2003-08-08T13:35:31Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Emperor Penguin \*
> \*\*Just the other night. I was sitting down to a nicely BBQ’ed steak, with an ice cold beer, while country music blared from my stereo.
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> Man, I felt like a man. I swear if I had been wearing a cowboy hat, I would’ve started to sweat testosterone. \*\*
Is it just me or is anyone else having difficulty reconciling the fact the first sentence includes the words “country music” and the second sentence states “I felt like a man”?
It’s probably just me, but the whole cowboy hat & boots thing just seems like an entire category of men in denial about their sexuality.
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### Author:  [@Lenny\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lenny_Carl)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/23 "2003-08-08T17:46:16Z")
My friends recently bought an old “fixer-upper” house. They were re-doing almost every room. I was assigned to the kitchen. It was a complete tear-down job.
I was handed a pair of gloves, a pair of goggles… and a **sledgehammer!**
It was a lot of fun!! 😃
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/24 "2003-08-08T18:13:16Z")
Taking pictures of my newborn daughter as they cleaned her up. Nothing, absolutely nothing, feels like becoming “Dad.”
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/25 "2003-08-08T18:27:24Z")
Helping a friend move. It was essentially me and a lot of females that didn’t need to be lifting big objects and one kinda scrawny guy. My guyness was in action most of the afternoon moving a lot items, but I reached the apex when I moved a refrigerator out of the truck, up a flight of stairs, and into the kitchen.
All by myself. Everyone else had taken a break to go get food and bring it back. I wanted to finish so I maneuvered it to the edge of the truck, got it tipped onto my bike, and started trudging away.
My legs were a little tired after that.
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### Author:  [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/26 "2003-08-08T18:56:30Z")
Hmm I’m only 18 but here are a few so far:
- getting drunk and peeing in the shower drain in spite of the fact that there was a perfectly usable toilet not 2 feet away.
- getting drunk and jerking off into a sock in my friends bed (relax, nobody else was in the room and it was 3 in the morning)
- punching my friend cause he wouldnt stop fouling me in basketball
- 2 instances of tackling guys whom had at least 50 pounds and 8 inches on me
- playing pick-up games of tackle football in mud, snow and torrential rain various times, with no padding
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/27 "2003-08-08T19:40:25Z")
Wow. How to narrow it down to one? No can do.
- Holding my 1 hour old son up to the delivery room TV so he could watch his first baseball game.
- Ripping out 2 doorframes in my living room and converting them to archways. Just to see if I could.
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### Author:  [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/28 "2003-08-08T19:50:51Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by plnnr \*
> \*\*Taking pictures of my newborn daughter as they cleaned her up. Nothing, absolutely nothing, feels like becoming “Dad.” \*\*
Well said **plnnr**. My daughter is 9 weeks old now. Memory still fresh. My son is just passed 2 and I can still see the little guy fresh from the oven.
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### Author:  [@Taoiseach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taoiseach)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/29 "2003-08-08T20:05:31Z")
Had used a 24-hour-paste stripper on the back door to the house, and was wiping the stripped door down with neutralizer when a splinter of wood came through the sponge and entered my ring finger just above the joint and came out the tip of the finger (to be specific: it penetrated THROUGH 1" of the finger, about 1/2" deep). I calmly walked inside, ran cold water over the finger while my brother-in-law got the hydrogen peroxide. When I couldn’t get the splinter out with tweezers (couldn’t get enough of a purchase on the part sticking out) I used a pair of needlenose pliars to pull the splinter out.
The guy moment? I didn’t faint…
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### Author:  [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/30 "2003-08-08T20:33:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by sirtonyh \*
> \*\*It’s probably just me, but the whole cowboy hat & boots thing just seems like an entire category of men in denial about their sexuality. \*\*
I’ve never worn a pair of cowboy boots in my life, but I wonder what you base such a ridiculous statement on.
My “guy” things:[ul][li] played on an undefeated college football team that scored 280 points to opponents 28 points. Three running backs gained over 1000 yards.[/li][li] landed a plane (solo) on an aircraft carrier.[/li][li] Marine boot camp[/li] sitting on my deck; barefoot; a cotton field directly behind me; cattle grazing next door; sipping a gin and tonic; listening to country music.[/ul]
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### Author:  [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/31 "2003-08-08T20:38:34Z")
I’m not a guy, nor do I play one on TV, but I have to contribute a guy moment one of my brothers had.
About 10 or 12 years ago, one of my older brothers had a plantar wart (a wart on the bottom of the foot). He didn’t want to pay a doctor to have it removed, so he had my little brother grab onto it with a pair of pliers and rip it out.
I’m frugal, and I’m not much of a girly-girl, but no way would I do that.
[potential hijack]
**Niedhart** , the shoe thing has a logical explanation. Really it does.
[/potential hijack]
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### Author:  [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/32 "2003-08-08T20:53:38Z")
Most recent, gutting (and I mean GUTTING) my bathroom, replacing the foor decking, tile, drywall, plumbing (including fixtures), and electrical all by myself because it was a hell of a lot cheaper and a great excuse to buy tools.
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/33 "2003-08-08T22:01:58Z")
I used a Mini-excavator to dig a 100 foot trench as my 2 1/2 year old son watched. Wide eyed and mouth open. I felt soooooo manly.
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### Author:  [@CharlesW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CharlesW)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/34 "2003-08-08T22:04:52Z")
All my guy moments involve my truck. Im only 23 so give me time.
1. Impulse purchase of a $53,000 Diesel Truck. Went to look because I was next door. Ended up staying for 4 hours, and leaving with a new 2001 3500 RAM.
2. On the freeway at 1AM, and finding out my new truck (about 2 months after I got it) had a limiter at 112MPH.
3. In my truck with a friend, and her friend from out of town. Trying to impress her friend with my driving skills I took a 90 degree turn at 70MPH. Used 3 lanes and both sholders. Almost took out a firehydrant. Found out that boy can a woman scream if they get scared. Not sure why I needed to impress her, because I knew she already had a boyfriend, and I had no chance.
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### Author:  [@ReBusEniGma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReBusEniGma)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/35 "2003-08-08T22:38:15Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Mullinator \*
> \*\*…I moved a refrigerator out of the truck, up a flight of stairs, and into the kitchen.
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> All by myself. Everyone else had taken a break to go get food and bring it back. I wanted to finish so I maneuvered it to the edge of the truck, got it tipped onto my bike, and started trudging away.
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> My legs were a little tired after that. \*\*
Dude! You _ARE_ the man… doing all that, and on your bike no less? My legs would be tired too! 😃 (friendly poke)
Here are some more moments I thought of. [ul]
[li]Moose hunting (Bow Hunting). Those animals are _huge_[/li][li]Backpacking down the backside of Meadow Mountain in BC[/li][li]The long, arduous task of building my house.[/li][/ul]
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/36 "2003-08-09T06:45:56Z")
Speaking of peeing…
I peed on the remaining section of the Forbes Field Wall in Pittsburgh where Mazeroski hit the home run that won the '60 World Seris.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/37 "2003-08-09T08:06:31Z")
> [@](#):
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> It’s probably just me, but the whole cowboy hat & boots thing just seems like an entire category of men in denial about their .
It’s just you.
Mind you, I’m about the farthest thing from a cowboy, and I have never worn real cowboy boots and walked around.
You must not be from around these parts (pretty much all of America, excluding NY City).
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/38 "2003-08-09T11:29:52Z")
Checking out of a hotel about a month ago, there was a young lady that needed a jump to start her car. She was a jump-able young lady, so I volunteered to help immediately. I manned those jumper cables like a pro, she was so proud of me. I let her know she could call me if she ever needed jumping again. I bid her farewell and road of into the sunrise.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/39 "2003-08-09T13:17:20Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by NurseCarmen \*
> \*\*I used a Mini-excavator to dig a 100 foot trench as my 2 1/2 year old son watched. Wide eyed and mouth open. I felt soooooo manly. \*\*
Those little excavators are GREAT! I’ve rented them four times. Replaced culverts and french drain and dug the foundation for my addition.
Happend to have one when the septic pump guy got stuck in my yard. Pulled him right out.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-most-guy-moment/193693/40 "2003-08-09T13:29:38Z")
My best guy moment? Gosh, there’ve been so very many , where to begin? 😛
I demolished a huge iron framed gazebo in the back yard. The supports were 2inch hollow square iron extrusion, and the thing was about 16 feet by 24 feet, with the iron used for the roof frame as well. I cut each diagonal support, one at a time with a circular saw. Finally, and with great care, I cut the last one, and the entire thing dropped…1/4" and rested on it’s cut self. I then took a huge honkin’ strap, tied it to one edge, stood back about 20 feet and started tugging and releasing, building up a rocking motion in the entire structure. After a minute or so of progressively violent movements, the whole thing came down. No muss, no fuss. Thousands of pounds of iron, carefully demolished. Sparks had been flying all day, from the metal cutting blades I was using in the saw. God, I felt manly. It was VERY much a Thor, God of Thunder kinda moment.
A close second is the time I was tied into the back of an A.T.V., shooting backwards as a Mercedes Benz C Class chased us through the canyons of the Wall Street area. The car was frequently less than 8 feet away from my knees, and if 8 feet sounds generous, try sitting 8 feet away from a car doing 40-50 mph moving towards you. The footage was killer, but the adrenaline rush was beyond belief. I got a lot of " you da man" looks that day.
A sweet yet universal guy thing happened yet again this weekend. My parents are visiting, I am doing various repairs at the behest of my father ( who taught me very well in the ways of all things Home Repairish ). He was trying to stop me from going into the bathroom to trim some caulking, so he could tell me the only right way to do it. I cut him off, and said, ’ C’mon, Dad, I’m going to use an X-Acto knife and trim around with the tiny sharp tip so nothing is left’. He smiled and said, Yes Exactly !! I looked at him and said, " Where do you think I learned how to do all of these things? By being your helper when I was a kid ! "
Lovely bonding moment, and I’d call it a guy thing because it involved the guys in the family.
Cartooniverse
p.s. Then again, I recently had a hot debate with my best friend over dry measuring cups v.s. wet measuring cups, and if the two are truly the same. That would have been a Best Gender Non-Specific Moment. 😉
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