Things you learned the hard way!

[Big Rack]

Saw this on the SASS Wire and thought it may be an interesting thread here.

For myself:
If you grow hot peppers and if you let them dry on the vine and if you use a blender to grind them, make real sure you wash your hands before taking a leak!! My wife sure thought it was funny watching me squirm a little and then run for the cold water.

[TheGrimReaper]

Wash your hand REALLY good after putting in some Copenhagen and then putting in your contact lenses!!!

[BD]

1.Think about where you are exactly before you pull the trigger on anything that weighs more than you do.
2. marriage (is there an "easy" way to learn about marriage?)
BD

[Blammer]

You have to have your Ball Glove UP if you do not want to catch a ball in the face.

[Char-Gar]

Know where your fingers are BEFORE you fold a knife.

[TXGunNut]

Tinsel fairy is always in the neighborhood and molten lead is very, very hot.

[rush1886]

Saw this on the SASS Wire and thought it may be an interesting thread here.

For myself:
If you grow hot peppers and if you let them dry on the vine and if you use a blender to grind them, make real sure you wash your hands before taking a leak!! My wife sure thought it was funny watching me squirm a little and then run for the cold water.

It don't matter who you are, that's funny right there!!!

Personally, never ask another person to turn off circuit breaker #12! If you want something done right, do it yourself--just sayin!!

[TXGunNut]

Always wash your hands after handling lead-acid batteries. Have lost many pairs of perfectly good, generally nearly new jeans as I handle them on a regular basis. And there was that one trip to the bathroom...

[jeepyj]

If thinking that you can hold that piece of steel with your hand rather than clamping it when using a hole saw on a drill press. Quite likely your going to be proven wrong.
Jeepyj

[P.K.]

How about "seen" ?

Never stomp out a small fire on your front porch.....

[wch]

Never have an argument with an idiot, you'll just make him angry and frustrate yourself.

[PULSARNC]

Never take someone elses word that the power is off to a circuit you are about to work on . Check to see that the water is cutoff before you put the recipircating saw to that piece of pvc pipe.

[41 mag fan]

Something my BIL told me once.....and i laughed and laughed about it.

Don't get drunk, get the munchies and eat 2 big boxes of laughy taffy.
The next morning after sitting on the pot pushing and pushing and trying, it got stuck!!
He took a spatula to it, with no avail, finally used a pair of tongs and got it unstuck.
He says it was so bad he had 911 on his ph ready to hit the call button!!!

Also, don't wash the spatula and tongs and put them back in the kitchen, throw them away!! He did do that right!

[bbs70]

Raising 2 daughters

[TCoggins]

When installing laminate countertops, they screw to the cabinets from below. Always,always,always, double check that the screw is not long enough to extend though the top of the laminate.

Nuff said.

Tim

[Love Life]

Alcohol does not, contrary to popular belief, actually make you 10 ft tall and add another 100 lbs of solid muscle.

Skill does not always defeat brute force and strength

Getting pulled behind a car on a bicycle is not as good an idea as it sounds.

Make sure you jump far enough to clear the ledge of the pool.

I can go for days...

[Heavy lead]

Can I list the things I learned the easy way instead?

List is below:

[historicfirearms]

Don't melt beeswax in your wife's good stockpot. And definitely don't give her a new pot as a Christmas gift, just replace it with a new one before she notices.

[dagger dog]

" You don't tug on Superman's Cape"
" You don't P!$$ into the wind"
" Don't pull the mask of the Ole Lone Ranger"
and
You don't make a 22 Magnum by pulling the bullets out of 2 rounds of LR, dump the powder from one into the other, reseat the bullet into the one with the double charge, put it into your trusty Mossberg 420 Palomino lever action rifle pull the trigger.

Yeah I did that when I was 13, you know that didn't even booger the rifle, can't say that it did much for my fingers that were in the lever, lost a little hide and some off my butt too, when the old man helped me pick some brass out my right cheek, lucky I wore glasses, could've lost an eye.

[472x1B/A]

Don't wear your pant leg cuffs rolled UP when welding or using a cutting torch.

Or weld in a 39 foot deep grain leg pit with out letting the dust settle first. Grain dust makes a very loud boom.