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A discussion of life's lessons learned the hard way. This usually involves pain!!
dreher
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The pain can be physical or emotional but pain is a wonderful teacher. IF you live through it!! So let's do a long list of things we learned the hard way. These can major things or minor things but things we painfully learned from.
I'll start off with a minor life lesson learned the painful way.
Never shoot any semi-auto rifle unless you are wearing socks!! Why is this you ask?? I well remember a perfectly 223 shaped blister on the side of my foot. An ejected casing dropped right between my shoe and my sockless foot. By the time I got that casing out of my shoe I had a very large water blister on my foot!!
Keep them coming!! There has to thousands of painful life lessons out there!!
I'll start off with a minor life lesson learned the painful way.
Never shoot any semi-auto rifle unless you are wearing socks!! Why is this you ask?? I well remember a perfectly 223 shaped blister on the side of my foot. An ejected casing dropped right between my shoe and my sockless foot. By the time I got that casing out of my shoe I had a very large water blister on my foot!!
Keep them coming!! There has to thousands of painful life lessons out there!!
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Putting your bare leg on a motorcycle muffler.
Jumping on a huge Beach ball on an above ground pool from a picnic table. (Stitches involved on that one.)
Don't try and beat the rapidly closing garage door on your tricycle that your older Brother is slamming shut after beating you into the garage on his scooter. (Lots of stitches on that one.)
(1st set of stitches.) Mom was vacuuming the hardwood floor at our place in Germany in anticipation of a move. Ken being 1 year old, was running across the floor in his Walker (why were they called Walkers?) Hit the power cord at full speed and cartwheeled. Yep ER here we come.
Letting older kids dare you into touching your tongue to a frozen metal pole.
Got lots of em'.
Sam06 will like this one. In Basic training at Fort Lost in the Woods 1980. Killing some time at the shooting range.
Guy starts tossing some gravel across the dirt road from a pile. Drill Sergeant spots him. He now has to move the pile from one side of the road to the other, one at a time, while counting them. When we had to march back to base, (like 8-10 miles) he had to fill up every single pocket on his BDU's with as much gravel as they would hold.
Oh, and when the Drill Sergeant tells you all to pick up cigarette butts in your dead time, it's best not to point out that you don't smoke.
Cutting up seriously Hot Peppers, then rubbing your eyes.
Being in the Gas Chamber with the Idiot that could not remember his Weapons # before we could all run out. (Like the Sergeants in the Gas Chamber knew everyones Weapon #.) We pummeled the Idiot when we finally got outside.
I've got a nice scar on the back of my head from doing a helicopter (on skis) and landing on some idiot that came in underneath me Neo.
When I got home that night, my bandana was frozen/stuck to my head from blood. Lost a big chunk of flesh on that one. I can feel the big scar right now. 🤕
When your parents buy you new shoes don't forget and leave them in the yard. I did it and it rained that night. My father found them in the morning and whipped butt good with the wet shoes. I understand it now, they didn't have money to waste. I never did it again.
When a nun asks you if your friend jumps off of a bridge are you going to do that too? Don't respond it depends how high it is. Rulers on knuckles are never a good experience.
Never try to do a handstand from the handlebars of your Schwinn Stingray while cruising down a freshly paved tar & chip rural road. Especially while being closely followed by your beagle.
I learned a great deal from that one! Beagles can be blood thirsty little bastages!
Never every in any case use an acetylene cutting torch to cut up a car body while wearing tennis shoes
as a young kid so many bicycle wrecks and injuries to list
a bit older and in in the early driver license era a few do not hang on the back of a car and see how fast you can run . at some point your feet leave the ground and letting go involves sliding down a gravel ally road rash comes to mind .
same car and many riders do not sit on top hanging on the luggage rack while the driver(s) we took turns . got to up death speed and swerved from side to side of the road trying to toss you off while the other car contestants in waiting on there turn to ride were tossing empty beer bottles up at you .
the owner of a store I worked at called me evil knevel for years watching me drive thru the parking lot even over a huge dirt pile when they were working close by in a old mustang I staked the landing but about took out the side of the store
a very close friend passed a few years ago ( we had drifted apart 20 some years ago ) him and I had too many car and truck adventures . I could fill book with all the dumb luck things we lived thru it my cars
I had not thought about for years at his wake I introduced myself to a lot of his family I had never met . he had told them a lot of the stories on me , when hearing my name I got a lot of attention I instantly became surrounded by people and OMG your Dave . we heard about your adventures ( funny he seemed to have left out his parts , RIP Ron )
my user name is sort of based on my no fear driving or dying when younger .
skip ahead when I was working construction I gained a few more life long mementoes in the form of pain from falling or being in the wrong place about being crushed with heavy equipment a few time only by the grace of God I did not die or suffer serious injury .
now being older I have added scars from just about ever tool in the tool box from utility knifes to table saws
I know most all of you have done and lived thru worse that I could imagine ( especially the vets and current servers and LEO y for you I tip my hat and say thank you )
just sharing a few of my hold my beer moments funny now thinking back how luck I truly was
Don't ride your dirt bike up a 2x4 into a trailer with your wife watching unless you're very proficient.
Don't try to walk the new untrained German shepherd outside the yard on a gravel surface when you are 3 years old.
Don't stand up in the new outhouse and shoot holes in the steel drum with your shotgun after your dad forgot to drill some holes and tells you to go blast some holes in it with your 16 ga sxs unless you have hearing protection.
Don't downshift when going 95 mph to teach a lesson to the idiot tailgating so close you can't see his headlights for 5 miles.
Don't think the 12' ice is safe after someone moved his shanty before a snowfall.
1) At -20F do not let your bottom lip touch your handlebar going over a bump.
2) Make sure the axle quick-release lever is on the OPPOSITE side from the disc brake.
3) When the motion lights come on, don't always run out to see why
Don't stand barefoot on a concrete floor, and stick your finger into a live light socket, just to see for yourself if it really is dangerous.
Having your experienced Ski friends/Buddies take you up to the top lift for your first run or two, telling you to "just point them downhill, you'll be fine." 🤕
Going downhill on Rollerblades on a REALLY steep hill. (Trust me.)
Anytime you utter the infamous words "Hold my beer, and watch this."
A few from my days......
A knife sharp enough to cut the head off of a plastic dinosaur will also take off a significant chunk of your finger when you let it slip. We used to cut them apart and make new ones by 'welding' parts together. That's where the woodburner was supposed to come in.
Don't be the winner in a contest where you see who can run their bicycle into a wall the fastest.
It’s fine to not have time to go in and get stitches in your hand, but don’t rush to do the job yourself in a truck with a manual shift while sitting in the farm store parking lot after buying the super glue.
BTW- it put me in the hospital twice!
You didn't know they had teeth in there, did you?