Not everyone has the luxury of working in a safe environment.
Rather poignantly, most of the essential workers, who continued to report to work as the world shut down during the pandemic, often had to report to very dangerous conditions.
And while we'd like to think that the people who are responsible for ensuring the safety and well-being of these employees will make sure nothing happens to them, that simply isn't always the case.
As many people have witnessed, truly horrific accidents take place at work more frequently than we think.
"What's the worst accident that happened at your workplace?"
As If One Time Wasn't Bad Enough
"Not my story, but my dad told me it."
"A man got his arm stuck in a machine, which degloved his arm."
"After he recovered, he was showing the safety people how it happened, and he accidentally degloved his other arm."- nugget_the_third3
Before You Eat Those Fries...
"Working at McDonalds, a girl slipped walking past a deep fryer and her hand went deep into the fryer."
"The manager wrapped her hand in a cloth, when she pulled it off to put in water all of her skin came off."
"We were still made to work so we walked off, they were even happy to keep using the fryer after it!"- Reasonable_Slice5324
Sometimes It's Their Own Fault
"Working for a specialized trucking company, a fellow driver lost control fully loaded going down a winding mountain road."
'The truck tipped over, slid across 2 lanes of oncoming traffic and landed in a field."
"Truck and trailer were absolutely demolished, cab was flattened, and the driver (a huge MFer) crawled out the back window without a scratch."
"$400k unit wasn’t even recognizable."
"Guy was fired when insurance pulled the ECM out of the rig and found he was going over 100kmh around a 50kmh corner and didn’t even touch the brakes."- Barquebe
"Man fell 75 feet due to standing on the wrong side of the pipe he was cutting."
"You ever see those cartoons where they cut the branch while standing on the branch?"
"He was cutting from inside and everyone thinks he just got disoriented."- R3DLOTU5·
Bizarre After Effects
"Guy fell 15’ and landed on his head."
"He lived."
"It fixed his lazy eye and he’s still with the company."
"He became very irritable, has violent outbursts and is a lil psychotic but otherwise perfectly ok."- Oneinsevenbillion75
Choose Your Smoking Breaks Wisely
"Had a corn starch dust explosion at a previous job."
"And no it's not previous because I caused it lol."
"A truly stupid guy decided he'd sneak a cigarette break in basically the worst place he could."
"He came very close to death for his stupidity and could have taken others with him, but thankfully he was the only one seriously injured when the dust went boom."
"That night I was pretty far from the boom area doing vacuum decay testing on completed bags of sugar substitute."
"I was uninjured, but it definitely scared the sh*t out of me."- LaReinaTormenta
They Call It Protective Gear For A Reason
"Teenage girl cut off her finger after refusing to wear the cut proof glove because 'it was ugly'."
"Follow safety protocols folks."- the-cosmic-kraken
So Many People's Worst Nightmares
"When I worked at a grocery store a guy lost his thumb in the meat slicer."
"Worst part is, because of the blade it went flying and they couldn’t find it soon enough to reattach."
'Deli was closed for 24 hours."- Mryan7600
Not Always Causing Physical Harm
"Worked in a grocery store as a teenager."
'My coworker (and still friend) was lowering a huge pallet of 1L apple juice tetra packs and the whole thing tipped from like 20ft up."
"Thousands of liters of apple juice flooded the whole back of the store."
"It was super hot that day and it just smelled like intense hot apple juice."
'We had the worst ant problem forever."
"Thankfully nobody was hurt but what a godawful mess."- permacloud
Wearing Your Hair Up Is As Stylish As It Is Safe
"A girl with long hair leaned down to check something near a fast rotating piece of machinery and got it caught."
"It ripped a good chunk of her scalp out."- EntertainerOk9552
Don't Rely On Workman's Comp
"At Walmart, an assistant manager had a heart attack in the break room."
"When she was taken away and treated she disappeared from work for months, and when she finally came back."
"Walmart management decided to put her outside in the hot California summer heat to be a greeter."
"When she refused they didn’t care and she quit."
"Every single person on my team was saying they probably did it on purpose and wanted her to quit."
"Really f*cked up and it’s probably true."- Filthy_pilgrim
At Least He Was A Good Sport...
"I watched a guy, who pinned his safety guard back on his Skill saw with a nail, lay the still spinning blade right into the meat of his thigh."
"It went right in."
"I almost passed out when he yanked it out. "
"He was in shock and laughing about how the blade was so hot it cauterized the cut, so not much blood."
"He then got into his yellow Bronco with a bad clutch and drove himself to the hospital."- Spodson
Why Updates And Refurbishments Are Necessary
"Hydraulic ferry doors were forced open to let cars out, pins snapped and doors slammed shut on an employee."
"They survived but it wasn’t pretty."- PlantBagWood
Texting While Moving Is Dangerous
"A crew was walking a plane out to the flight line and a guy got his bottom half squished underneath the wheels."
"Texting and not paying attention was suspected to be the cause but that’s not confirmed."- niciswan
"Safety First" should not simply be a warning or guideline for employees to follow.
But rather a basic standard for any workplace putting their employees in dangerous situations to uphold.
Doctors see things on the job that might make the average person's stomach churn. You have to have a strong constitution for this job, especially if you're working in the emergency unit, where anything can happen at any given moment.
Some years ago, I met a doctor who told me about all the things he had to fish out of people's butts because they'd... get things stuck up there. Needless to say, this is burnt into my brain.
We heard more stories after Redditor Naypotato asked the online community,
"Doctors of Reddit, what is the weirdest thing you’ve seen while at work?"
"But all was well."
"Baby was born in a small village with all her bowels and stomach outside of her body (gastroschisis). Mum wrapped the baby up in a swaddle and mum, dad, and baby walked 8 hours to the nearest hospital."
"Caused quite a ruckus in the emergency department triage counter as they couldn't speak the local language and had to open the swaddle to show the triage nurse what they meant."
"But all was well. Baby survived and went home well."
ConferenceCreative89
Walking eight hours immediately after giving birth? The woman must have been strong as hell.
"I resorted to..."
"450-pound woman bleeding from the belly button, which was obviously a very deep innie. I resorted to a large speculum to visualize then cauterized the bleeding vessel."
DrLaZone
Anyone else ever randomly get worried about your belly button just opening up?
"That night..."
"Mexican doctor here. Got a call from a patient who wanted me to check on his wife since she had been laying in bed all morning. When I arrived I could smell rotten eggs and humidity in the room."
"Open the door and a body lays there, decomposed (probably 2-3 weeks), and the stench was strong because the mattress was all soggy due to the body liquids draining all over flesh. I took the poor old man outside and perform quick exploration, finding his left eye is moving uncontrollably and non-respondent to light."
"We call his family and I give them the news. Turns out he had been an epileptic his whole life but rarely took his treatment accordingly. Most probably he suffered a seizure that made him motor functional, but mentally challenged. One of the saddest cases I’ve encountered."
"That night I took a long shower, called my parents to tell them I love them. Had to take the dog in bed just for comfort. 3 months passed before I decided to do house visits again. Now I carry a hazmat mask in the car at any moment."
[deleted]
This is such a sad story. No wonder you took the time you needed to recover.
"Medic here. Went to a rural hospital for a clinical day (as opposed to my usual inner city trauma center I work in, which is a different brand of crazy) and we had to get an eyeball out of a woman's vagina."
"Apparently she was getting ready for a fight, and needed to keep her prosthetic eye safe. So obviously the best way to do that is to pop it out and stick it up in nature's pocket. Well it turns out that both the object and its container had enough lube to make it very difficult for her to remove."
Officer_Hotpants
Really never knew what the next sentence was going to be with this one.
"A homeless guy..."
"A homeless guy came in complaining of foot pain. He hadn’t taken his boots off for 18 months. Doctor took one off, turned it upside down and a toe fell out."
discostud1515
This is absolutely tragic. There are no words.
"Part of me thinks..."
"Anesthesiologist here."
"Part of me thinks I went into medicine because I'm inherently nosy. Anyway, in my last year of residency, we had this young patient and her husband. She thought she was pregnant, as her periods had stopped and her belly was getting bigger. I don't know why she didn't go and see an OB but....anyway."
"She was at home at a point where she thought she was "8 or 9 months pregnant," felt "something pop" and a sharp pain and thought she was going into labor. Then, her legs went numb and she could no longer walk -she and her husband didn't think that was normal so they checked into our ED."
"She had a huge yolk sac tumor with mets to the spine, liver, and other places and had to go for an emergent spinal decompression given her neurological symptoms. I wasn't the anesthesia resident for that case, but I was the one for her 2nd surgery when they wanted to remove the primary tumor, and resect some of the liver mets."
"Primary tumor was about the size of a basketball. I felt so bad for that young couple, but I still wonder to this day why they didn't get some sort of ultrasound or see an OB."
Biphasal
There's a movement/subculture of "solo/unassisted pregnancy and births." This theory that births and pregnancy are natural and medical intervention is unnecessary. There have, obviously, been some very tragic outcomes.
"Ultimately..."
"Surgery rotation in third year med school: stat call from ER about a guy who had lost a vibrator in his rectum. Physical exam: NAD; palpable vibration noted LLQ abdomen. The vibrator was still on."
"Patient stated the vibrator had been fully charged prior to “use” and would last for hours.Ultimately the attending surgeon wanted to avoid surgery due to the still-on vibrator leading to potential complications."
"The residents made the surgical intern manually pull it out to avoid surgery. Intern ended up getting it out along with a couple of hotel-sized shampoo bottles."
"Patient discharged home from ER in stable and improved condition."
zee4600
That’s why adult toys should have a flared base.
"During my internship..."
"During my internship, a person casually shared that he had been drinking sanitizer for past 3 months."
wafflepopup
Sadly, chronic alcoholics are famous for this.
"This is a story..."
"This is a story from my mom who was an RN for decades as a hospice nurse but worked in a small country hospital for several years when she was just starting out. While this story has a little gore in it, the weird thing is at the end."
"One day a farmer came in from the field."
"He was working on a disc tiller and one of the large metal discs fell off onto his head and sliced it open so the grey matter was visible. After he arrived at the ER, they got the guy onto a bed and he was fully conscious and talking. They were waiting for the helicopter to come take him to the "big" hospital that was probably an hour away by ambulance."
"When the chopper arrived, the farmer sat up in bed so they could transfer him to the stretcher and a small piece of brain tissue fell onto the pillow. My mom pointed it out and the doc just picked it up and threw it in the trash can."
"Because it was a small hospital and was rural, the same doctor did all the follow-up for the guy after he got home."
"For the rest of his life he could remember up to New Year's eve 1961 and then New Years day in 1963. All of 1962 was completely erased from his mind as though it had never happened."
"My mom always wondered if 1962 was in that small piece of brain the doctor threw in the can."
jedimasterlenny
"Well, there goes 1962."
Your mother wins this round.
Doctors have to deal with so, so much. Be kind to them. And if you ever enter the field, make sure you have a strong stomach.
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Some years ago I met a man who had a scar running down his face, one clean line that had long since healed but that was still rather noticeable. He explained to those in his company that he'd been scarred defending a woman during a bar fight.
Considering how badly those can go, he's lucky he's alive. That could have gone so much worse than it did. He's accepted the scar and hey, it did make for a good story.
All scars have stories behind them. Some people shared their stories with us after Redditor JigglezPlayz asked the online community,
"How did you get your scar?"
"I fell in the shower..."
"I fell in the shower while dancing. Now I have a titanium plate."
Sighfaint
That's pretty metal, just saying.
Too soon?
"My sister..."
"My sister blindfolded me and led me into a desk corner."
Qwertythecoolone
Ouch! This is why I always prefer to be aware of all of my surroundings.
"My brother..."
"My brother blindfolded me and made me touch a hot iron."
GlassCrow123
Ouch! What is up with all of your siblings?!
"I was cutting wood..."
"I was cutting wood with a chainsaw and it touched my leg. I wasn’t wearing safety chaps."
[deleted]
It sounds like you've learned your lesson. Ouch. Hope you're feeling better.
"They cut..."
"They cut a mole out. Oops, that one's cancerous, better go deeper!"
[deleted]
Ouch! Hopefully you're cancer free!
"Sliced through..."
"Cut my index finger with a brand new Leatherman. Sliced right through the skin and into the bone."
homevp
I cringed so horribly reading this.
"I was wrong..."
"My ex girlfriend accidentally stabbed me in my arm. I was wrong to jumpscare the hell out of her while she was cutting onions."
Last-Level5126
She sounds like the person you want by your side for the zombie apocalypse, though!
"Got my thyroid removed..."
"Got my thyroid removed... looks like someone tried to slit my throat, unfortunately."
Neph88
I've seen some gnarly thyroid removal scars. Glad you're still with us.
"I got shot..."
"I got shot in the abdomen."
[deleted]
Scary! Glad you've since recovered. Gunshot wounds are no joke.
"I tried to..."
"I tried to run elegantly headfirst through a glass door."
MyShrinkWentBananas
People think it'll be like the movies and... they're so wrong. You don't just walk away from that.
It's been said that scars are just tattoos with better stories but to be honest, given the choice, I think I'd stick with tattoos.
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Never doubt it, working in a factory is one of the most dangerous jobs around. Living day to day, completing tasks alongside massive machines with enough power to crush and shape metal, is of course going to make our fleshy, soft bodies quiver with fear. But, if you pay attention during safety training, have a good head on your shoulders, and follow all the rules, you can avoid injury.
Right?
Reddit user, Low_Capital5993, wanted to hear about when things went bad when they asked:
"Redditors who work at factories, what’s the scariest thing you’ve seen a machine do to a person?"
What's the point of all those training sessions about how far away to stand away from the grinding-smashing machine if not to avoid events like this?
Fingers: The Doll
"At a plastic factory a girl reached under a gate to try to pull a part that had got stuck in the mold out while the machine was shooting the next part. Her hand got shut in the mold when it closed and mangled her finger tips."
"Another time that I wasn't there a guy moved a panel off an electrical source to clean around it and got electrocuted. There was a complete breakdown of everyone's safety training. He was knocked unconscious and nobody remembered what they were supposed to do. The supervisor couldn't remember how to dial 911 because he didn't know how to use the phone to get an outside line since the phones were all connected to each other and you had to dial 9+ the number if you wanted to use it like a regular phone. The guy ended up being okay. He shot up after 30 seconds or so and yelled "I'm back". We had to retrain everyone on safety procedure after that."
itzsp3ll3dwrong
Too Late For Boot Day
"saw a coworkers foot get severed by a dock plate that was not secured property. I got red wing safety boots from the company. although I felt bad for the guywhen he came back to work in a wheel chair with his wife to say hi."
merrypooping369
Slow Is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
"I designed a machine that skinned cuts of meat. A guy at the factory we installed it at removed the safety guard so he could work quicker....thing tore his arm off up to the elbow and dragged him in up to the shoulder and held him"
Rumple-skank-skin
"Safety > Speed"
Hour_Wishbone9172
A Smidge Too Far
"I saw an 18 year old use his dominant hand to push dough into a dough slicer. He pushed too far and lost 4 fingers in an instant."
LunchInABoxx
Make The Sense
"Saw a dude slip off a boat, fell about 4.5 feet onto the metal tongue of the trailer and his shin just exploded."
"They drug tested him and he failed with flying colors."
DankJohnson
A Lost Future
"1978, was working in a corrugated paper plant, and there was a young guy my age, summer worker, on his way to a college basketball scholarship in the fall, was running a corrugated paper slitter, think two vertical rollers stacked one above the other with razor sharp knives on each roller, used to cut glued up packs of paper into strips. The infeed had a belt that pulled the packs into the blades and cut them into strips."
"I was not far away from him when I heard crazy screaming, and finally found where it was coming from, he had a couple of layers of the packs stuck together and stalled the machine. Instead of shutting it off, he grabbed the packs and pulled back on them, as he did, the machine torqued back up and pulled his right hand into a pair of the slitter blades, cutting his hand in two lengthwise, and also taking his ring and pinky fingers off. 44 years ago and I can still hear him screaming."
big_d_usernametaken
A body part doesn't have to be lost for an accident to stick with you for the rest of your life.
Next. Next. Next.
"Not a machine exactly but related to the machine."
"A maintenance employee climbed into a large silo that was used to store beverage mix. These silos have nitrogen pumped in on top of the product to achieve positive pressure and maintain sterility."
"The silo was empty of product but still contained nitrogen. First employee climbed in and passed out due to the lack of oxygen. Another employee witnessed this and climbed in to save them. That employee passed out too. I believe a third person did the same thing before someone figured out what was going on and they got help. No one died thankfully."
wrenchandrepeat
Cheap Owners Are Going To Lead To Injuries
"Not sure if this counts but I used to work at a cabinet shop which was an extremely unsafe work environment. Nobody really wore safety glasses since our boss only supplied one pair for the entire shop. Was making a cut on a table saw and this dude who I worked with tossed a piece of wood at the saw thinking it would scare me. Shot up and hit me right in the eye. Almost knocked me out. My iris tore off my cornea causing iris prolapse and now I have what looks like two pupils."
Migitmafia
Tie It Up
"I worked in restoration for a bit and one my coworkers with long hair was using a stationary belt sander. Watched it rip a good size chunk of his scalp right off. Never heard a man scream like that. Still haunts me"
Curiousthrowzone
That's The Sound Of You All Adjusting Your Seats
"A colleague climbed over one piece of racking, went to climb over another and fell with her legs either side of both pieces of racking."
"Her perineum tore."
"Disgustingly, and for me regrettably, she was in a hidden location when this happened, and the manager only found out what had happened when they spotted some blood on the floor and followed it out and to the colleague's car. My colleague was sat crying in her car, unable to reasonably control that vehicle in her attempt to drive to the hospital."
Never Pull From The Bottom
"To this day I don't know why he did it, but we used to have a 7ft vertical stack of heavy plastic boxes for storage."
"Dude wanted something from the bottom box, so instead of removing the higher boxes, he sat cross-legged on the floor just lifting the whole stack with one arm and reaching in with the other."
"I heard a shrill scream and turned and saw everything topple over and bury him."
diggergig
"She's lucky the manager saw the blood trail. She's luckier she hadn't hit her head and died in a corner of the factory which nobody goes near for days on end."
"She spent the afternoon having her notcha stitched up, and a further ten days off."
P0sitive_Outlook
And then, tragically, there are stories like these, the kind we expected when this topic was brought up.
Never Made It To The Hospital
"I watched a guy tip over a fully extended Genie boom. The fall arrest whipped him around like a sling shot and unfortunately he didn't make it to the hospital. On another job (bridge building crew); a foreman tossed a large scrap lag bolt off the deck of the bridge. It hit a man directly in the hard hat 40' below on the ground; he died instantly"
James_a420
Fighting For Life
"Not a factory but a crusher."
"Heavy duty machinery mishap, the guy's head got smashed pretty badly and after 2 weeks of fighting for his life, he didn't make it. I'm still shaken to my core from that."
feisty_throwaway
Gone, Before Anyone Knew
"My father and I worked in a box manufacturing factory. There is a machine called 'the shredder' which is an eight foot wide rotating crusher style blade that pretty much just shreds messed up orders that we can't ship out."
"One thing about the factory it gets super hot in the building. Someone had been working by the shredder and passed out from the heat and had fallen into the shredder and ended up getting chewed up from the waist down. Dead before anyone even noticed he was missing."
huxe-exe
"That’s my current job. We have a shredder not 8 feet wide but has a conveyor part, so much safety around it. About a 8 inch gap to feed board, a little safety wire running parallel to the blades and a pressure plate thing under the belt. That guy was proper unlucky"
Murfiano
Be safe, no matter where you're working. Last thing you want to happen is anything remotely close to what any of these people experienced.
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People Divulge What They've Only Ever Done Once In Their Life And Never Again
New experiences are the spice of life, but sometimes that spice might be a little more bitter than you originally thought.
Whether the experience turned out to be a total flop, or it was the kind of thing that you're glad you got to do once but don't need to do again, some things are best left as one-off experiences.
*Content note: the following article contains graphic descriptions of injuries, and mentions drug use. Reader discretion advised.*
Reddit user CaneToDefeatYou asked:
"What is something you did once and never again?"
Always Swim Parallel To The Shore
Not paying attention to currents when swimming in the sea (and going anyway when there's a red flag and no guard)
Dumbest sh*t ever. I was with my two brothers and my father, happily splashing around. Suddenly we turn around and the shore just got very far away. So we start swimming back but the sea is stronger than you. If you stop 5 seconds to catch your breath you lose the progress you did during the last minute, and that's precious.
I was young so I don't remember it as a legit life-threatening situation, but my bros and dad still got chills when talking about it
It Technically Worked?
Put pizza wrapped in foil in the microwave when I was 10 thinking it will warm up quicker. It surely did by lighting on fire 3 seconds after I turned it on
Maybe Stay Out Of Caves
Spelunking / cave exploring. For starters, it begins and ends with going through a million bats. And the journey in between is just too dangerous, in the last place in the world you'd want to get hurt. And super tight squeezes are freaky.
the story of the guy who got stuck upside down in the Nutty Putty cave system will have me never ever getting into spelunking. his body is still stuck there because it was too unsafe and difficult to get him out. it's so disturbing and sad.
Every single time cave exploration or spelunking is mentioned on Reddit, the Nutty Putty cave gets mentioned. And for good reason.
Hard pass. Not a fan of being eaten by the planet.
Climb Of A Lifetime
Climbed the stairs up the CN Tower. It's a twice a year thing for charity. My friends and husband were all like "Yeah, come join us! It's so fun!!"
No, 144 flights of stairs is not fun. I've done it once. It's crossed off. Never again.
Edit: okay, it's "only" 144 flights of stairs, and 1776 steps. Sure felt like a billion, but this post has gotten some traction and I feel guilty.
Accidental Theft Is Surprisingly Common
This one time I was getting a drink that was only for a dollar, so I sped-walk my way into the mini shops, quickly grabbed one and ran out. I was running to my friend with the drink until I felt something in my pocket, pulled it out and it was the dollar...
SUDDEN REALIZATION
I quickly ran back to the mini shop to see the shop owners scanning the outside of their shop, I gave them my dollar and said "Sorry", they looked at the dollar, looked at each other, spoke in a different language, and went back inside.
I'm pretty sure they called me an idiot, as I went back with shame.
My dad told me this story. In the 70s he and my mum stopped at a Little Chef (motorway services restaurant) for lunch. After they finished, they got the bill, then left. They drove for half an hour before realising, they didn't actually pay the bill.
Being honest people, they turned round and went back and paid. The staff said "We though you'd be back".
In the days before pre pay gas pumps my buddy and I stopped at a station to fill some jugs up with 100 something octane race gas before heading to the drag strip. We forgot to pay. About a half hour later we were sitting in the pit area getting the car ready when a sheriffs deputy rolls up and told us. Both of us thought the other had paid. Whoops. He gave me a ride back to the station and I paid and bought pops for everyone including the deputy. He hung out with us for a while at the track. Felt dumb.
Let's Stick To Proper Toilet Paper
Ran out of toilet paper when i was 11, saw alcohol wipe cloths and thought that would work just fine... nope, as soon as I did that first wipe it was as if the sun teleported into my a**hole and i was hopping around the bathroom trying not to squeal. Mom opened the door to check on the noise and saw me jumping around with an alcohol pad between my cheeks.
Keep alcohol away from your anus.
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Jungles Aren't As Fun As They Look
Hiking through jungles. They look so beautiful in movies. In reality they are some of the most brutal hikes I've been on.
Let's start with the humidity. It's so bad it drenches you to the bone, and there's no escaping it. Being under a jungle canopy is like being in a pressure cooker. The heat and humidity beats you down harder than any environment I've been in.
Then there's the swarms of biting bugs. From never-ending mosquitoes, giant spiders on everything, ticks jumpung on you from everywhere and colonies of aggressive fire ants criss-crossing the trails, you can expect to have more bug bites than you've thought possible to survive.
Once-in-a-lifetime Was Enough
Went to Times Square for New Years Eve in New York City. I live in NYC and I figured it was the kinda thing I wanted to see but didn’t need to see again. Went in 2000 when I was 18. Got there 11am and stayed for 13 hours in the freezing cold but with close spots to the ball drop and screen. I’m glad I did it. I’m also glad I’ve never done it again.
Peer Pressure Sucks
Did heroin for the first time and wasn't into the sensation at all. The same roomate that talked me into herion talked me into smoking some crack to even out. Luckily I wasn't a fan of either and never did either ever again.
Sometimes It's Just Not Worth It
Removing paint from a table. I still need to finish sanding the thing but that was a nightmare, who paints a table with like 30 coats??
Edit: Used Citristrip Safer Paint Remover, then scraped the flat surfaces with a scraper, then used steel wool on the other parts, rinsing the chunks of paint off in between as it gunked up the steel wool real quick. Then repeated the process a few weeks later, then used a belt sander on the flat surfaces, now just need to hand sand the other surfaces.... It's like you want to quit but you are too invested at that point.
Beware The Bar Brawls
Tried to intervene during a street fight. Got shot for my troubles.
Was at the bar with my ex wife. Two regulars (one of which I considered a friend) started arguing. My friend went outside to go home and end the problem. A**hat decides hes gonna continue the fight in the parking lot. There was a group of us that followed and when he went to pull A gun my drunk a** thought it would be a good idea to step in and try to stop it all. F**ker shot at me three times. One of then hit my leg.
To be fair, it sounds like you might have saved your friend's life.
Yeah... still not good enough reason to try it a second time.
Running In The Desert Sounds Like A Bad Time
A marathon in the desert.
Do you try to find new ways to die every day?
Well I'm an epileptic with brain cancer who still cooks.
Can't Lose Money If You Don't Play
Bought a $20 lottery ticket.
Lost $20.
Never again.
Shoplifting Is Maybe Not The Best Idea
I stole a tester eyeliner from the makeup section at a store when I was 17. The security guy took me aside in a small room and "questioned" me, asked for my information, and to scare me, he said this would always be in my record and companies won't want to hire me anymore and I burst into tears and had a panic attack. He said he'll let me off if I pay double the price of the eyeliner, so I did and he let me go.
Now, I don't know how much of what he told me was real and if the resolve was legitimate, but if he tried to just scare me into not becoming a serial swiper, it worked.
Hot Things Are Hot!
Grabbed the hot grill as a 5 year old. Learned my lesson.
Put my face on a just unplugged iron.
This is my earliest memory. I was younger than 4. My mother was ironing the clothes and i was in the same room. She finished, unplugged the iron and left the room for a second. I was curious how hot it was so i went to check it. Why with my face? Because whenever i had a fever my mother used to check if i had a temperature by putting her cheeky against my forehead and well... Monkey see monkey do.
Wrong Kind Of Lube
When i was 14, i accidentally mistook bike chain lube for sex lube. At first, i wondered why it was blue, but that thought was almost immediately overpowered by an intense burning sensation.
More Like Bed And Social Anxiety
Stayed at a bed and breakfast. I’m not social enough to socialize with people during breakfast.
Same. Came downstairs at 9:15 because they said breakfast was served until 9:30. The owner said, "there you are!" and showed me to a table with a little card that said Mrs. Whinecube (in fancy script) and then proceeded to scold me that all the other guests were already done eating.
Never. Again.
Why Do So Many Kids Do This?
One time (I was around 12 or 13?) I suddenly took interest on my sharpener, since my pinky finger was small enough I decided why don't I sharpen my finger? Like why the f**k not?? So I plunged it in and twisted (hard). Took nearly a week to heal.
One of the most stupidest things I ever done
I did this as a kid too, it’s like some sort of whack childhood intrusive thought that you actually act on.
It's often good to try new things and get out of your comfort zone, but it's perfectly okay to head right back to that comfort zone immediately afterwards.