Lessons learned young.

[llowry61]

My buddy bought a can of mace.
We sprayed it into the air.
My inquisitive nature got the best of me. I wondered what it smelled like.
Not my smartest move.
My buddy saw me coughing and choking, so he decided to see what it smelled like too.
I guess he was a little dumber than me.

A smart man learns from his mistake, a wise man learns from other people's mistakes.

Most men are smart and very few wise.

I get wiser every year.

 

[mike4sigs]

Don't stick a hairpin in the electric outlet. At any rate, you will only do it once. Ask me how I know.

50ish years ago A freind found out that gum wrappers and elecrtic outlets should NOT play together

 

[steelslaver]

My Dad told me if you are bothered by a bully...take a short section of 2 X 4 and smack him as hard as you can under his knee into his shin...he WILL go right down...Dad further told me he had to do this in Sandusky, Ohio when he was growing up in the 1940's because the punks were waiting for him every day after school and he learned this from his Father...He said after he did this one time they never waited for him and bothered him again...

My one brother's step daughter had a problem with a bully at the school bus stop. He taught her how to throw a punch, swiveling her hip and straightening her leg out to really put her body behind it as she straightened out and told her to nail him right on the snot locker. Both the kid and his parents were impressed. When they whined to my brother he asked dear old dad just how bad he wanted a sample. She went on to become a Marine helicopter crew chief in Afghanistan. End of Story

 

[steelslaver]

In 7th Grade science class I pulled the plug from a soldering iron, however one of the prongs broke off and stayed in the 120 volt socket

I was a smart kid. I knew all about electricity, and touching only one side of the socket would not shock me. So I grabbed a hold on the copper prong and tried to pull it out.

I then learned that I was not a genius after all.

You can touch one side, no problem, But, when you touch the other you had better not be grounded.

My lesson as a child was to be careful kneeling and swinging a hatchet. The scar is still visible and you can still feel the notch in my knee cap. But, I also learned that although I could develop a leak here or there a most, a few stitches usually stopped them. If it didn't take stitches it wasn't really much of a leak.

Unless your a complete idiot, red hot steel doesn't burn, black steel on the other hand, can be very deceptive in that regard.

 

[ACORN]

Thought of another brain fart I had, though I wasn't all that young.
We were working on an old boat and finishing up when I decided to use our cutting torch to cut some 3/8" chain, without gloves.
I cut the chain and the red hot links fell where I didn't want them. Not thinking, I reached down with my bare hand and picked it up.
At first all I felt was the skin frying. Then the pain came.
Raised one heck of a blister.

 

[robvious]

ONLY whittle wood... fingers are not appropriate...

 

[soFlaNative]

Unless your a complete idiot, red hot steel doesn't burn, black steel on the other hand, can be very deceptive in that regard.

Red hot steel doesn't burn? That I need to ponder.
I did find out for a fact that hot glass looks the same as room temp glass.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Red hot steel doesn't burn? That I need to ponder.
I did find out for a fact that hot glass looks the same as room temp glass.

So does aluminum.

 

[Grayfox]

Don't chase the rooster.
He ain't chicken.

 

[Inusuit]

Don't let the lead rope get under your horse's tail.

 

[Smoke]

Something my father taught me

You make your living with your tools. Buy the best tools you can afford and NEVER sell them.

 

[steelslaver]

Red hot steel doesn't burn? That I need to ponder.
I did find out for a fact that hot glass looks the same as room temp glass.

Red hot steel looks hot and only idiots touch it so it seldom burns people. On the other hand 1000f steel looks just like 70f steel and people will touch it

 

[Rustyt1953]

Fill empty ice cube trays.

Don't put empty jugs, jars or cartons back in the fridge.

Don't touch dad's Circus Peanuts or bread heels.

I wasn't born in a barn.

I make a better door than I do a window.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I learned that lesson when riding when my friends beautiful 65 1/2 white mustang with powder blue trim threw a rod and ground to a halt at 3 am on I-610 in the middle of nowhere.

 

[lihpster]

My father's take on hot steel: Never grab a piece of dry steel.

 

[charlie sherrill]

Mine was, Don't pee on the electric fence.

My Dad challenged me to do this when I was about seven years old and we were on a dove hunt. Same thing if you pee on a running lawn mower spark plug. I didn't learn enough on the electric fence.

 

[charlie sherrill]

LOL. This image has been around for a number of years

We were in the 8th grade. A friend of mine, who later flew choppers in Viet Nam, took one of those winged paper clips, clamped it to a pencil, and then stuck the wings into a wall outlet. It sparked and shut the power off for a third of the school. He also survived Viet Nam.

 

[charlie sherrill]

It probably worked.