WTF was I thinking?

[FlyingJ 0]

I was just outside using a pressure washer to clean off the handful of ATVs we use at work. I got some nasty gunk on my hand and even though I was totally aware that it was a bad idea, my body was a step ahead of my brain and I stuck my hand about an inch in front of the nozzle. I now have a nice sized gash across the base of a few fingers.

I know I've done this kind of thing before, where you are completely aware that something is stupid and exactly what is going to happen, but for some reason it takes your brain just a bit too long to interfere with your actions?

How about you - who else has had something like this happen?

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[Lindercles 0]

I was eating lunch once when I felt the ball of my tongue ring come off. I knew the exact wrong thing to do was swallow. So what did I do? That's right, I swallowed.

[guppie01 0]

As a child I repeatedly put my tongue on frozen things. DUH! I have several cuts in my tongue from this.

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[shermanator 4]

that sucks.. just last week, I did one of those... was soldering some wire to my car speaker, and before my brain could react, i grabbed the soldering iron *hot end* between my thumb and finger, luckily i had a nice layer of dirt on my hands, i heard a sizzle, and smelled burning. somehow i managed to get away with a small blister. .. guess my working with fryers in the food business helped me gain a tolerance to heat!

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As a child I repeatedly put my tongue on frozen things. DUH! I have several cuts in my tongue from this.

Repeatedly?! I only had to learn that lesson once!

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[wildfan75 1]

I once checked to see if a pocket knife was sharp by running my thumb up the blade. And yes, it was sharp.

Even at age 6 I had my blonde moments.

Editted to add: I should probably note that I wasn't checking to see if it was sharp as much as I was checking to see how sharp it was since my dad had just finished sharpening it for my brother.

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I once checked to see if a pocket knife was sharp by running my thumb up the blade. And yes, it was sharp.

Even at age 6 I had my blonde moments.

I used to watch my grandfather test how sharp a knife was by running it along his thumb. I tried twice before someone explained to me that his thumb was calloused, hence the reason it didn't cut him. It totally ruined my perception of him being invincible!

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[guppie01 0]

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As a child I repeatedly put my tongue on frozen things. DUH! I have several cuts in my tongue from this.

Repeatedly?! I only had to learn that lesson once!

But of course.... we all know you're much smarter than I!!!

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[78RATS 0]

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That's right, I swallowed

Good boy!

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[goofyjumper 0]

You big dork Jay. I have never done anything stupid

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When i was a kid i used to jump of things all the time.
One day I jump of the roof of the garage, after I leapt,i re-considered the sense of the jump, and decided to grab onto the top of the fence next to me, it was made of corrugated iron, to this day I have a nice big cresent shaped scar on the palm of my hand

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[monkycndo 0]

I belonged to the club at Cal Poly that built the school's float for the Tournament of Roses parade. We didn't always have matching sets of welding gloves, and I was only using the glove for the welding stinger. I had just finished a weld, and proceded to grab it with my bare hand. I knew it was cherry hot but couldn't stop in time. Instant char.
What made it really bad is I did it again just a few minutes later.

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[squirrel 0]

this is a story from a friend. when this guy was young, he picked up an extension cord, and for some reason, the conductors (wires) were exposed. his dad looks overs and says "I wouldnt do that if I were you" my friend, Nick, proceeds to lick the end of the cord....BAM! he remembers thinking, wow, fireworks.

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[AggieDave 6]

Atleast you got your piece of body piercing back pretty quick, it'll take a while for that hand to heal.

I've done similar things with hot metal pieces while welding/cutting. There's a really good one where I put an ungloved hand on a large piece I was welding on my garage floor. I've been hit with 110 a few times, 220 a couple of times, but that hurt much worst then anything other then a taser. I quickly sat back and complied with the metal's lawful orders, though.

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[Lindercles 0]

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Atleast you got your piece of body piercing back pretty quick, it'll take a while for that hand to heal.

For the record, I made no attempt to retrieve the lost jewelry.

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For the record, I made no attempt to retrieve the lost jewelry.

Only because you had another "moment" and flushed before you could retrieve it?

Eitherway a good professional power washer is something that is awesome. You don't even want to wash your car with some of them. Some of them can break the paint and start stripping your car. Even though stripping is a good thing in many cases, like in the obvious example of stripping with your car it leaves you with a head ache and a huge hole in your wallet.

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[monkycndo 0]

WTF part 2.

Was installing some lights in a garage and it started getting late. Needed light, so I just connected up one of the fixtures and kept working. I left one of the pieces of romex a little long and needed to trim it. The only problem was is was connected to the live circuit. Just as I started to cut it but before I could stop, my brain knew it was a bad idea. A big flash, me falling off the ladder and two big gashes carved out of my new side cutters were the result. The home owner came outside to see if I was OK. I was fine, just pissed I ruined my new Klein dikes.

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[2fat2fly 0]

The good thing about hanging out here is that you're unlikely to out dumbass everybodyI don't have time to type mine up, but-yep I've had injury inducing brain lock

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You big dork Jay. I have never done anything stupid

Aren't you married?

Blues,
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[MagicGuy 0]

I worked in the produce department of a supermarket for about 2 years. There was a lot of downtime in produce, so to entertain myself my buddy and I would take watermelons and other large fruit items and toss them in the air, slicing them with the machete as they were in the air.

One day I was chopping up a plantain in the back, and wanting to be funny I said "Hey look at these Iron Chef skills" and started chopping the thing really fast against the cutting board. Thumb was in the way, sliced down from the side of my thumb in, halfway through the nail. I could look into my thumb. Almost passed out from the sight.

Stitched that bitch up and I was fine. Pretty stupid on my part, though. I also used to purposely look at the sun when I was a kid. My eyes are fucked from it now.

[ifall 0]

Oh this is right up my alley. One thing really stands out for me.

It was when I was in college and my roomate and I, along with the regulars that would come over on the weekends, were drinking Jager. Well, we had a bunch of used up candles and decided to melt the wax and use some wicks that they sold right down the street at the corner market to combine all the used wax and make a new one. Long story short, I was ready to pour the wax and asked my roomate for something to pour it into. He handed me something and I started pouring not really putting 2&2 together until the last second that what I was pouring this HOT wax into was a plastic Solo cup. The second my brain tried to stop me I was screaming from pain from the wax that was now all over my left hand. I had to sleep with my hand drooped over the side of the bed in a bucket of water because the pain was tremendous.

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Eitherway a good professional power washer is something that is awesome. You don't even want to wash your car with some of them. Some of them can break the paint and start stripping your car. Even though stripping is a good thing in many cases, like in the obvious example of stripping with your car it leaves you with a head ache and a huge hole in your wallet.

You ain't kiddin'. Thankfully I was using our small one. I would have lost three fingers if I was using the powerful one!

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[skinnyshrek 0]

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[FlyingJ 0]

Come to think of it, I just about had another one of these moments yesterday. We were out doing a prescribed burn and upon taking a step forward I noticed the ground felt different so I looked down. I was stepping right on top of a freakin' rattlesnake and he was striking at my boot. Thankfully I was wearing 10" boots and was stepping a little too close to his head for him to strike much higher.

I took a step back and just watched him, that's when I leaned foward and started poking him a little with the end of my unlit drip torch. I was simply trying to get him to move on his way so he wouldn't encounter the fire but it didn't occur to me at the moment that by bending over and reaching out my hand was now only about 12" from him.

Thankfully this was more of a "what if" than a WTF was I thinking situation since nothing happened, but it didn't occur to me until a few minutes later how careless I was being!

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