Do you ever do something and then feel stupid?

[flyboy01]

I was sanding down the left rear quarter doing some bodywork and I was getting stressed out that my newly primered and clean trunk is getting tons of dust and sanding debris in it, also my interior was getting a fair amount of sanding dust in it too. I had been contemplating how to stop this from happening. 




I thought  about taping it off with masking paper, maybe buying some plastic sheeting, then it came to me in a sudden flash of inspiration.   








I shut my trunk and rolled up my windows.     

[BBLM23]

 

[Dartsport]

 

[automan63]

Had a good laugh  reading this, thanks. after today, I needed it. Jeff.

[Capt Jack]

sometimes obvious....isnt

[flyboy01]

The sad part was, it took me 4 days.   

[SIKPUP]

  I had a friend that did that years ago !   He got in an accident because he turned on his heat / defroster and blew all that dust in his eyes ...while driving in traffic.  He rearended some ladies car , and totaled it because it buckeled the whole rear clip down.

             So clean out the heater ducts too !

                                                       SIKPUP

[268darts]

I was taking the last bolt out of my tranny the outer day, when I was thinking I should stop and make sure the jack was under it good. And at that moment...bam.  Well, 18 stitches on the forehead later, I can deal with stupid, but man my head hurts.  ouch! 

[moparrr07]

 , when i locked the keys in my car,

man chryslers are hard to brake into-

i ended up taking a small piece of angle iron about 6 feet long and bending it alittle in the middle and putting a pick on the end,

then i forced the vent window open (duster), and reach in with this 6 foot long piece of metal and pull the door handle

[DartKnight]

  I had a friend that did that years ago !   He got in an accident because he turned on his heat / defroster and blew all that dust in his eyes ...while driving in traffic.  He rearended some ladies car , and totaled it because it buckeled the whole rear clip down.

             So clean out the heater ducts too !

                                                       SIKPUP

That almost happened to me, except I opened the fresh air vent below the dash while driving; you wouldn't believe how much assorted crap came shooting out right into my eyes (since you have to bend over to open it).

Let's see...I've also washed my car with the windows down, poured oil into the crankcase after an oil change with the drain plug off, rebuilt an engine and forgot the oil pump (it was 4 in the morning, dammit)....the list goes on. 

[eldubb440]

never 

[moparwedden]

I Had My Axles Retrilled For The Large Bolt Pattern And Had Them Weld A Larger Ring On The Outside To Beef Them Up, Also Made The Mistake Of Having The Holes Filled In. Well Installed Them This Year And Had To Use A Rachiting Wrench. Of Coarse Had To Have Head In The Wheel Well So I Could Get Some Torke On Wrench And Wammo Wrench Slipped Hit Myself Between The Eyes And Knocked Myself Out For A Couple Of Minutes Just To Wake Up With Blood Pouring Down, No Stiches But A Large Bump Between The Lookers. Of coarse Had To Look Around To See If Anybody Seen Me, Wew No One Seen.

[flyboy01]

Ha, the exact  same thing happend to me, except it was a shock. I was installing a new set of rear shock on my Dakota when I slipped and dropped a heavy shock straight between the eyes, knocked me out for a few seconds, I had a knot about the size of a quarter on my forehead. A few weeks before that I was under my truck again and dropped a craftsman 1/2 drive rachet, the 5/8 socket hit me in the forhead and cut a perfect 5/8 six-sided impression in my head. All my friends and co-workers laughed for about a week everytime they saw me. Of course, everytime I looked in the mirror, I laughed also.   

[jacks62440]

I was sanding down the left rear quarter doing some bodywork and I was getting stressed out that my newly primered and clean trunk is getting tons of dust and sanding debris in it, also my interior was getting a fair amount of sanding dust in it too. I had been contemplating how to stop this from happening. 




I thought  about taping it off with masking paper, maybe buying some plastic sheeting, then it came to me in a sudden flash of inspiration.   








I shut my trunk and rolled up my windows.     

         I was doing the same thing this afternoon,  Power sanding and looking at the driver door that was open a crack and open window, 2 feet away, Dust flying, thought about it, continued sanding, finished sanding, applied more fiberglass, sanded some more.      Maybe I will close it Tomorrow       Funny thing, I have done this 3 Time's Now. When I finish this part, I will Vacuum the inside again and wash it again. And then I will most likely do it Again    Some people Never Learn, And I am One   

[instrument]

I was getting pissed, trying to remove some exhaust pipe bolts off the collector flange. I dropped the socket four times. I came out from the car, pissed, and slung the socket over a few neighbor's fences. I then had to relocate a second socket. Which was a heavy impack socket. I crawled back under the car and as soon as I turn the nut. I drop the socket again, hit me straight in the eye. My other hand was trying to hold the bolt's head, so I had no way to defend my face.

[SIKPUP]

never 

                     

                           SIKPUP

[notenuffcash]

Yeah, I remember this one time I was just standing there and said " I do". My buddies didnt even try to stop me.

[moparwedden]

Man Keep Them Coming, This Is Better Than Yuk Yuks.

[65dart440pro]

Never use needle nose pliers to put on brake springs, I have a scar in the middle of my forehead to prove it......

[motorhead]

since we are are talking about silly things we do ,i had just freshened up 396 in 68 chevelle had 488's in back with glide and very loose 8 in 5500 converter , had wife in the car monitoring guages , while i was checking for leaks and stuff , couldnt help noticing motor sounded like it was labouring , finally after not finding anything wrong or so  i thought , maybe it just needs to be cleaned out , alittle burp , aww everythings cool its just me, so , standing in front of the car with no hood on i reach for the throttle and give it a big burp and to my surprise low and behold the car is in gear ,also in the garage heading for the wall with me inside the engine compartment and my shirtsleeve caught on the throttle , not quite the ride i was looking for but we all lived to laugh about it later.

[flyboy01]

I once started my F150 from underhood (because my ignition switch was intermittant), but what I forgot to do was put the trans into park or neutral after it stalled. As soon as I hit the solenoid with the wrench, it started up, the grille hit me in the chest and pushed me to the side, and the truck left to go driving down the street by itself!



I tried to grab onto the truck to stop it, but it almost took my finger off (skin and meat, down to the bone), it was cruising down the street at about 15 mph (you have no idea how fast that is untill you are running to catch it). It was heading for a brand new house, right for the picture window in front. Since the landscaping was not done, there was a 3 foot high pile of pea gravel in the yard, 10 feet from the house. It mush have been a miracle because the truck went up over the curb (with me still 30 feet behind it) and steered straight for the pile, it hit it and stopped. 10 feet from the house, I finally caust up and threw it in park. At that point the pain hit me from my dangling finger. My freinds were still a half a block back wondering what was going on. They laughed about it right away, but it took me a few months before I could.

[wilddriver]

I haven't worked on the car in a couple weeks,but i was working on the house the other day.The basemeant window frames are getting pretty rotten. I take the glass out,reach for the crow bar,the big one about 3 and 1/2 ft long.Jam crow bar between frame and cinder block and give a big yank.Wake up on the floor with complete window frame  and crow bar lieing on top of me ,and a big knot on my head.

[twistedsix]

I made a move 2 states from home. i rented a box truck and car trailer on which i towed my jeep wrangler. i got to my new house and parked the truck and unhitched the trailer in the driveway, pulled the truck forward and emptied it. i had to return the truck and trailer so genius that i am i try to back the jeep off the trailer while it's unhitched from the truck..... i backed up and the tongue of the trailer came off the ground and i took a backwards ride down the hill in the jeep on top of a rented trailer. when i came to a stop i look up the hill to see my old man with his hands cupped around his mouth in order to make sure i hear the words ..... "NICE MOVE ASS!!!!!!!!"

[baumtruck]

years ago I had afb carb that the air cleaner stud had broken flush with the hole. I decided to drill it out with  the carb on the engine.
when i was done there were metal shaveings on  the butterfiys,no problem I grabbed the wifes vacuum , taped a piece copper tubeing
to the end and sucked up the shaveings. I noticed as  Iwent by the ventures vaporised gas came out,so  I decided I should check them all
to see how they were working. As I was doing the third one I heard a small explosion,looked over and saw my wifes vacuum bulged out
and  a lot of smoke!

[baumtruck]

When I was in the air force (back in the 60's) one the harder  jobs was changeing the  hydraulic                           suction filter on a kc135. To access it you had to stand on a
stepladder raise your arms over your head and insert your head and shoulders through a small access panel , remove the 2 inch lines and remove
the  filter which was about 18 inchs long. One of the more inept mechanics in our shop was working on this for twice as long as it would take a
average person when my roomate decided to help him by filling the 5 gal. reservoir which is accessed through a panel on top of the wing.
After pouring 6 gals. of hydraulic fluid (into the 5gal. reservior) he thought he should check for problems, standing on the step ladder under the
wing he found number one mechanic completly soaked.

[evstraus]

Back in High School Auto Shop a friend had his Vega on the floor hoist and was attempting to weld a crack in the oil pan. He had drained the oil but could not get the weld applyed because he could not get the oil off the pan. So with about 6 guys standing around the car watching him he decides to put the flame of the torch into the oil pan drain hole. I was washing my hands when the wall in front of me lit up and I heard what sounded like a jet car leaving the line. Well a flame about 5 feet long shot out of the hole (oil fumes I guess) and torched some poor fool right in the face. It was raining that day and the shop doors were half way close.  He had his hands over his eyes and went running to get outside...  wham! closelined him and put him flat on his back. The shop teacher brought him over to the sink where I was standing to throw water on his face. When the teacher removed his hands from his face his eyebrows were gone, and he was crying " my lips they burn, they burn " they looked like a couple of giant blisters. He was also wearing one of those coats that have a fur collar that was pretty toasted as well. He ended up sueing the school district for a large amount of cash to ease his pain. 23 years later it still makes me laugh ..... not that I'm sediistic.... well maybe a little.       Eric 

[flyboy01]

Boy, all these stories are making me remember of all the dumb this I have done. The garage door made me remember when I used to work in a shop that had huge roll up doors, one bay had an extra large and tall door for fitting bugger vehicles like trucks in the shop. They were balanced doors that weighed a ton, but it only took a light tug on a rope to close them. One day I was walking outside and yanked the door down behind me, someone in the shop said something that got my attention, I turned around and the next thing I knew, I was looking up ay about 5 guys standing around me.

They said that I stopped under the door and turned around, they saw the door come down right on top of my head  and compress my neck. I was out for about 30 seconds. I stood up, staggered a bit, and went back to work. I did not even get a headache.   

[norwaycharger]

Never use needle nose pliers to put on brake springs, I have a scar in the middle of my forehead to prove it......

  happend to me too...
Sometimes i do things that make me question my own IQ.
I had a 72 Duster that i did a tachometer install.
I eyeballed it and meassured it, finally i got the right place on my column.
Wired it up and started the engine, yeah it worked ......Until i put my column shifter in drive .
Then it somehow changed the posision

[flyboy01]

Thats a classic! 

[Duster Five-O]

The question is: do you have the feeling in the back of your head telling you you should't be doing it this way and then do it anyway?  Guilty, and that makes the stupid moves and resulting pain even worse