Things not to do when drinking...

[woftrax]

Interesting post the other day about "never get on gunbroker when drinking."

That is good advice...It got me to thinking about other things we should never do when drinking...Driving and drinking is bad..I don't do it..Drinking and dialing old girlfriends two weeks before the HS reunion is not a good idea...that led to disaster..and emailing when drinking can cost some friendships.some were expendable and others kind-of bothered me..

What are your personal no-no's that got you in trouble and you will never do again??? I hope to learn something on this thread..I suspect that I should add some of these to my list if they make sense..A word to the wise sort-of thing..

You can tell us..we're not going to spill the beans..

 

[calmex]

Well, this didn't happen directly to me, but I saw the results. Many years ago, the night before a bowling pin match, a good friend came home late after too many whiskeys and decided that he could load a bowling pin load that would REALLY clear the pins off the table.

Unfortunately, instead of flipping the book open to the ".45 ACP" page, he ended up on the ".45 Colt" page. His loads DID clean the pins right off the table, but after about 4 or 5 shots, his barrel bushing broke and his recoil spring plug and spring sailed foward under recoil and narrowly missed the remaining pin. His firearm was "packed up" for the day at that point, although I don't remember anything being seriously damaged other than the broken off barrel bushing.

His cases were very bulged, and his ego was somewhat bruised, but we all had a good laugh about it. The 1911 is a pretty strong gun, and he was pretty darned lucky.

His loads were up around 9.0 grains of Unique back when 7.5 was Maximum for the bullet he was using. Some few remaining loads scavaged from a magazine that day "hung around" our group for quite a while. One guy, always skeptical of Hitler having shot himself with just a .32, joked that they would be the ultimate "termination loads" for the suicidal. This particular guy died in a horrific car accident a year later ("And you know what?" the RCMP Officer told me, "There were BOWLING PINS all over the highway!" Ron had been carrying a load of the club's pins in his trunk that we had never got around to unloading.)

Anyway, Ron was recently divorced, and didn't have much estate. Before any of us could even get there, some lawyer had "cleaned" Ron's apartment of his stereo and his guns...which supposedly were to go to Ron's Ex but rumour had it that the lawyer kept the .45. Inhuman souls that we were at the time, we used to joke about that .45 being out there loaded with -- most probably -- 9.0 termination loads. But I never heard anything about it afterwards, so who knows? Ron was killed in the spring of 1981, so I suppose if anything happened it happened a long time ago already.

 

[handejector]

I have heard that 'Posting under the influence' caused a problem here, but only once.....

 

[feralmerril]

I wont get up to break up two fighting dogs in the hallway again. I was still half asleep, reached down in the dark and got nailed on the hand. My hand swelled up like popeye, doctor said I was less than a hour from death with blood poisoning by the time I finaly went in.

 

[mod34]

A few things:

I try to not log on to the SW Forum
I try not to have "just one more"
I never, ever post a "Wanted to Sell" ad on the SW forum. If you see me post an ad to sell an ANIB 4" Colt Diamondback in .22LR for $250 shipped, I beg you to disregard!
I never change out a set of grips. I can't seem to find the buggerd skrew, scratched frame, nicked grips avatar

 

[TheShootist1894]

NOT PROUD OF THIS ONE!!

Woke up at a stop sign one night, foot on the brake pedal, car in gear, me scared stupid!! Lucky to have survived my younger years. . .. .

LIVE AND LEARN

 

[s&wchad]

Things not to do when drinking...

Play cards at deer camp. I lose more quarters that way...

 

[DWFAN]

What constitutes under the influence? Heck I say dumb stuff without any. See I'm saying dumb stuff now. Anybody seen my wine?
DW

 

[mod34]

What constitutes under the influence? Heck I say dumb stuff without any. See I'm saying dumb stuff now. Anybody seen my wine?
DW

I thick its parkd rite nects to my brbon

 

[cussedemgun]

house rule- No Drunks allowed in the kitchen!

I hate getting up to find a drunk tried to cook. You can tell when every dish, pot, & glass in the house is dirty & it looks like someone ate off the stove top.

Did i mention I live alone?

Jim

 

[redlevel]

ANIB 4" Colt Diamondback in .22LR for $250 shipped

I'll take it!!

PM sent.

 

[Big Cholla]

Never, never ever lean across the table when dining with 3 other 'couples' after noticing that the voluptuous lady across from you has dripped salsa on a very prominent boob and say, "Don't wipe that off, I'll lick it off for you!" Don't ask me how I know about this rule. :-(

Big Cholla

 

[Smithhound]

Using a chainsaw. My left shinbone can verify this.
Fireworks. Don't ask.
Related to fireworks:
thinking one can pour a 1lb can of black powder out in a long line and lite it with a match, expecting it to burn slowly, like smokeless. It doesn't. Took awhile for my eyebrows to grow back.
Las Vegas.
Emailing the Boss.

RD

 

[roosterk]

Fall in love.

roosterk

 

[mgjohn]

Guy wanted to shoot a black power rifle. All kind of BP but no BP rifle. Friend takes a single barrel 12g and says lets use this. Take one 12g shell, remove shot and wadding and fill with BP. Yes fill, 3/4 of the way up a 28 inch barrel, they used about 3/4 of the can and then tamped newspaper on top of it. Very nice boom!!!! Shooter lived, 2 fingers broken, blue jean vest ripped from sholder to waist, (hammer caught it, may have prevented more hand damage) sholder broken and most of his hair was burned off in the fire ball. Thanks to a severe application of corn liquor (before and after shooting) he did not have to go to the hospital for a couple of days.

 

[Smithhound]

Well..now I don't feel so bad after reading that!
RD

 

[ect1222t]

Rx Narcotics

Don't know about "drunk" as I've never been a drinker, but it is ill advised to post or PM while under the influence of copious amounts of Perscription Narcotics, (especially the initial perscribed dose after surgery) no matter how "great" they make you feel. -Ed.

 

[Oddball]

Several of us guys got together at a friends lake house one time and after a few beers the conversation turned to what would happen if you fired both barrels of a 12 guage side by side at the same time. Well, the big mouth of the group (isn't there one in every group?) said he would show us and grabbed our hosts shotgun,went outside on the deck and pulled both triggers at the same time. After the smoke cleared he found that his right hand was bloody and mangled and there was a large bloody cut between his eyes. He decided that he wouldn't do that again.

 

[dpmac83]

Things not to do when drunk:

Met a bachelorette party from out of town at a large bar and showed them all to a good time. When my girlfriend called I told her to come up and meet me..... When she got there I explained what I was doing and that I was only hanging out with the bachelorette cause "she wasnt a threat." needless to say..... I slept on the couch that night!

 

[akviper]

Don't measure the inseam of the belly dancer when your girlfriend is coming in the door of the bar. Only an FBI guy carries a tape measure in a bar anyway. She had really long legs and everybody was curious. Needless to say, this was the condensed version of the story.