Foolishness

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 02-20-2006, 01:46

Actually, I for one do NOT want to know.

**Divinus Arma** · 02-20-2006, 02:40

I was working at a submarine sandwich shop as a teenager and was a little drunk. ( I was a baaaaaaaaaaad kid)

Anyway, as I went to slice this gentleman's sandwich in half, I simultaneously sliced into my left thumb. (very deep- still have the scar)

I ran into the back kitchen to wash my hand, leaving the sandwich there and telling no one what happened. It was so quick that no one saw or had any idea. "Cut and run" quite literally!

The scary part: The man had ordered a meatball sandwich and I shall never know what became of it, since no one knew why I scampered off...

I reckon he found it to be extra saucy that day.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 02-20-2006, 02:43

Well I was an idiot this morning. My mistake was thinking while washing the top of a can of dog-food.

Now I have a great little cut nearly directly on the middle of my right thumb. Maybe it'll leave a scar to balance out the ones I have on my left thumb....

**TheSilverKnight** · 02-20-2006, 04:46

Never cook (American) bacon without a shirt on

Always use shaving cream unless you are using a small electric razor to do a few touch-ups

Do not attempt to break up cat-fights (between cats, girls, or girl cats)

Never stick your finger on a fork that's been left in a pot of pasta that's been left to boil/simmer for a few moments...

**Lemur** · 02-20-2006, 05:01

Don't take any dietary supplements because your wife says "You ought to take these." I forget what the evil substance was, but I fell over with a fever, my body turned bright red, and I wondered if I was going to die. When I recovered, I found that the stuff warned that all of this might happen in tiny print on a giant piece of paper folded inside the box.

This lemur has been very cautious about vitamins/supplements ever since. Now I wish I could remember what that stuff was ...

**Samurai Waki** · 02-20-2006, 07:29

When shooting a pistol, never put your thumb on the hammer (tore my thumb off my hand when I was 15 and had to have it reattached)... Don't think I've shot a pistol since.

**Ja'chyra** · 02-20-2006, 10:11

Oh so many:

Never check the chamfer on the piece of steel you just milled with your thumb - Lost tip of finger

Never cycle home after 6 double vodka's - broken shoulder

Never push your mums shopping down the conveyor belt in Tesco's - 3" Scar on right palm

Magnets on TV screens make pretty colours but don't do much for the picture afterwards - New TV

And not forgetting the old favourite, if it looks too high/far/heavy/wide/deep then it probably is.

In my defence most of these were when I was younger, let's hope age brings the much vaunted wisdom

Maybe the best, or worst, was someone I worked with:

When you wear a harness it's better to clip it on rather than fall 75 foot hitting a girder every 6 feet - Broken Back