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Bungleau · 04-21-2005, 11:12 PM

I can't think of anyone really weird... wait. Not necessarily weird, per se, but somewhat stupid.

Dingbat #1: My brother's friend from school. We had a box fan that my grandfather had built (literally) from a 2x8 board, a fan blade and motor, an electrical box with a light switch, and a cage around it. The switch was inside the cage, and dingbat #1 decides one day, while he's talking on the phone, to turn the fan off. Without looking. He missed the switch. It was not one of those plastic safety fan blades, but a real metal one from the 1950s. One trip to the ER, coming up.

Dingbat #2: Guy I worked with at a pizza joint. We were cleaning things up in the kitchen, running things through the diswasher and running excess food and such through the garbage disposal. He turns the disposal on, and then proceeds to start shoving his hand into it (to push something down, perhaps). I hollered at him and asked him what he was doing. He looked at me and said, "what?". When I mentioned what the disposal would do to his hand, he got sheepish and said "oh. didn't think about that." Sheesh!

Dingbat #1, revisited. The time he pi$$ed me off and I should have let him die. He was buying my brother's car from him, up until something went wrong while he was driving it. Somehow, I got drafted to help figure out why the engine wouldn't start. I looked at a variety of things, and said I thought it was the fuel pump not working somehow. He thought it was the starter, and went to buy a new one. We replaced it, and it still wouldn't start. He decides to short the starter by making the connection and start the car... with a metal wrench held in his bare hand! Apparently the concept that *he* would become part of the electrical circuit escaped him. Sadly, I prevented him from electrocuting himself by asking him what the he!! he was doing (one of my favorites phrases). Why did I want to kill him? Because after working on this stupid starter for 5-6 hours, some other friend comes along, says he thinks it's the fuel pump, and dingbat #1 immediately agrees and says the guy is probably right. That lost Saturday.... I shoulda killed him twice [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img]

04-21-2005, 11:12 PM	#21
Bungleau 40th Level Warrior Join Date: October 29, 2001 Location: Western Wilds of Michigan Posts: 11,752	I can't think of anyone really weird... wait. Not necessarily weird, per se, but somewhat stupid. Dingbat #1: My brother's friend from school. We had a box fan that my grandfather had built (literally) from a 2x8 board, a fan blade and motor, an electrical box with a light switch, and a cage around it. The switch was inside the cage, and dingbat #1 decides one day, while he's talking on the phone, to turn the fan off. Without looking. He missed the switch. It was not one of those plastic safety fan blades, but a real metal one from the 1950s. One trip to the ER, coming up. Dingbat #2: Guy I worked with at a pizza joint. We were cleaning things up in the kitchen, running things through the diswasher and running excess food and such through the garbage disposal. He turns the disposal on, and then proceeds to start shoving his hand into it (to push something down, perhaps). I hollered at him and asked him what he was doing. He looked at me and said, "what?". When I mentioned what the disposal would do to his hand, he got sheepish and said "oh. didn't think about that." Sheesh! Dingbat #1, revisited. The time he pi$$ed me off and I should have let him die. He was buying my brother's car from him, up until something went wrong while he was driving it. Somehow, I got drafted to help figure out why the engine wouldn't start. I looked at a variety of things, and said I thought it was the fuel pump not working somehow. He thought it was the starter, and went to buy a new one. We replaced it, and it still wouldn't start. He decides to short the starter by making the connection and start the car... with a metal wrench held in his bare hand! Apparently the concept that he would become part of the electrical circuit escaped him. Sadly, I prevented him from electrocuting himself by asking him what the he!! he was doing (one of my favorites phrases). Why did I want to kill him? Because after working on this stupid starter for 5-6 hours, some other friend comes along, says he thinks it's the fuel pump, and dingbat #1 immediately agrees and says the guy is probably right. That lost Saturday.... I shoulda killed him twice [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img] __________________ B Save Early, Save Often Save Before, Save After Two-Star General, Spelling Soldiers -+-+-+ Give 'em a hug one more time. It might be the last.