INCOMING!
Doing some work at Mom’s the other night I am reminded of a kitchen remodel we did to her home just before she moved to her town house.
She took the old cabinets- whcih had flat doors with appliques- and had them covered in white formica. We also had to have a pair of cabinets remade- and when the time came, I hung the doors.
I stood on a chair holding the door in one hand, leaningt on the countertop below, and then secured the screws. A couple of adjustments here and there to get the door to lie perfectly level, and I leaned back to admire my handiwork.
THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP!!!
I had leaned back into the running ceiling fan, which managed to make a full revolution (all five blades) before my cranium stopped the motor. I ducked down, holding my head, and bled for a while.
The more I think about these moments, the more I understand things about myself now.
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My grand dad always wore a cap. Since he was bald he was always banging is head on things under vehicles when he was in the pit.
He was an acknowledge mechanical genius, but he forgot to duck.
For that matter I have similar issues my self from time to time.
I’ve always been suspicous of someone who doesn’t get a bump from time to time.
I have those zen moments while sacrificing some blood or flesh to the mechanical gods.
Like when my dad would yell at me for being a dumb shit – perhaps he had a point after all.
Dude. Seriously. Step ladder + Tammi = serious head injuries.
I just did that AGAIN when putting the garland up in the kitchen.
Just be careful. The world needs YOU, not another Tammi…..
;-)
Gee… I’ve never done that. Oh, no! Not once.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
M
Dude, that sucks. Never put my head into a ceiling fan. But I have hit it on everything else. ‘Course, whey your 6’4″ everything is low. I always have a bottle of advil no further away than the truck.
Amazing how those damn fans move closer to you when your back is turned.
I still have the crease in my skull from when I opened a cabinet door in my dad’s garage, knocking a bicycle off the two nails it was hanging from in the rafters.
And it was one of those heavy all steel bikes from the 40’s that weigh more than a 4 year old.
Two funny things from the hospital:
When we went to be admitted the lady at the desk asked me how I was injured and when I said a bicycle fell on me, she looked at me and asked, “You fell OFF your bicycle?”, so I said, “No, no, it was in the garage and the bicycle was hanging on the rafters. . .”.
After I got stitched back up the nurse put a gauze compress on, and took one turn under my chin with the tape, then another just above my eyebrows, and then another, and another, until, when my mom looked in, from the eyebrows and earlobes up, I was covered in white. Quite the shock to her, she said later.
damn. Been there, too.
But still…when it happens to someone else… hehehehe. sorry.
In the interests of detail, shouldn’t that have been
“THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP!!!”..THUMP?
I’ve done that more than once myself.
It may explain a lot.
Got across 220 volts a few times by accident, too…which may explain even more.
Oh, and BTW, I meant to mention. Do you know the newer Hunter, Harbor Bay, and Casablanca fans have this neat feature where if you whack the blades good, they come out of alignment, but you can pop ’em right back in? Sortoflike Whanging your dislocated shoulder against a stone wall to force it back in.
Thought you might like to know.
(I don’t know if Bigass fans have that feature.)
M
And you discovered this wonderful feature….how ?
swmbo
What? You didn’t read the warning on the fan that said not to stick your head or other body parts into the moving blades of the fan?
You know, if people can’t keep from doing such things, the Consumer Product Safety Commission will have to mandate protective cages around ceiling fans.
People, PLEASE read and follow the warning labels! Do it for the children!
That is cartoon material OG…
I have neat burns on two fingers… yep… a bike exhaust is hot! even after 10 minutes of said bike being parked… smelled like barbecue… Hope the head heals soon.
This was…. educational :o
Either that, or I’m bloody paranoid.