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[Deleted member 1235]

Everybody goofs up sometimes. Post an embarrassing/painful/funny example of you doing this.

I'm currently away on business putting in new networking equipment, part of this installation is installing an Uninteruptable Power supply. This thing comes in 3 parts, the main unit and 2 extra battery packs that mount in a Server rack together. These things are HEAVY. 37 kgs per battery pack. A real bitch to lift and put into the rack by yourself. So I'm doing this anyway, and I take the battery pack out of it's cardboard box, but don't remove the cardboard surrounding it, as I lift it, the cardboard rips, the unit falls and lands on MY FUCKING TOE.

Now I have something like 5+ more hours of maintenance to carry out with either a broken or severely bruised toe (I'm leaning towards the latter). It hurts like a mofo and I'm limping everywhere now. It made a very loud noise when I dropped it too.

It was one of those instances where I had to act all cool about something in front of a bunch of strangers while they looked at me. 37kgs landing on your toe = bad times.

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

Actually, once I tripped a fat guy and he went plowing into the ground. I felt really bad for that because I didn't intend for him to knock over 3 chicks. Boy was my face red

Edit: He also took me down with him

 

[kumanoki]

Speaking of tripping, when I was a junior in college, I tripped up a wet wooden step and shattered the big toe on my right foot. All of my weight went on it, and the X-rays showed that both bones and the knuckle were not just broken but comepletely smashed. I had to have an operation to have the bone fragments removed. They replaced the bone with two metal pins. I have the best balance in the world now.

 

[bjork]

Back when I'd just bought my 64 Nova, I was always out in the driveway working on it... sanding, primer, etc. It needed (and still needs) a lot of work. So I'm out there one day, and there's a girl walking home from school who I'd been wanting to talk to but never had the balls to just go say hello. However, that day I was like "today is the day."

So I'm out there messing around in the car, and I see her walking down the street. I go to stand up, and I guess I forgot that I was inside the car, because my head shot straight up to where the weatherstripping SHOULD'VE been if I'd had any, so I hit this really sharp metal.

Instead of seeing me going all Evil Dead 2 and being like, "whaddaya say we... have some champagne, huh baby?" or something, she instead saw me going FUCK SHIT GOD DAMN IT OWOWOW and whatnot as I threw wrenches and rolled around on the ground clutching my head.

I never did talk to her, btw.

 

[Mike Works]

Once I accidentally altered about 25 thread titles to include the word 'Nintendogs' in them.

 

[kumanoki]

Once I accidentally altered about 25 thread titles to include the word 'Nintendogs' in them.

How exactly does clumsiness fit into that equation Mike? Did you trip or something?

 

[Mike Works]

Yeah, I tripped and my face fell onto the keyboard, hitting control and then V a couple dozen times.

It was pretty embarassing.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

My entire toe has turned the colour of red wine.

Is that bad?

 

[bjork]

If it's worrying you, you should probably go get it looked at.

Personally, I'd rather pay to find out that it's not broken, over not knowing and having it heal crooked or something.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

If it's worrying you, you should probably go get it looked at.

Personally, I'd rather pay to find out that it's not broken, over not knowing and having it heal crooked or something.

I know. I have another 5 hours of work to do shifting shit around before I can go sleep then get it looked at in the morning, it's getting more painful as well..... I'll post a pic tomorrow and let the gaf doctors sort it out!

 

[Red Scarlet]

Bumping my root beer can into my open CD drive, ruining it.

 

[Blackie]

They replaced the bone with two metal pins. I have the best balance in the world now.

Do you have superior balance because you are extra careful now or because the metal pins work better with your foot?

 

[Blackie]

I have a nasty habit of almost running into trees/poles/etc when turning back to wink or say "later" to a hot girl. I also hit face first into a streetlight playing my game gear once.

I've nutted myself on 3 seperate occasions the past two months. Twice because I was making an emphatic gesture downward. Too close downward.

Um. I was skeeting on my razor scooter TWICE leaving the date of this same girl and hit the SAME crack and had to bail on my razor. That was damn embarassing.

I tried to karate kick the side of this low bench once and did it too high, getting my leg stuck on the top of the bench and falling sideways. That was really shameful, even though no one saw.

 

[heavy liquid]

I cut the tip of my finger off back in January while cutting a bagel.

Picture warning for the link above - it's not a pretty sight.

It's completely grown back now, and you can't tell anything ever happened to it.

 

[Che]

Once I accidentally altered about 25 thread titles to include the word 'Nintendogs' in them.

:lol I kept wondering what had happened yesterday till I saw that thread at OA. You're crazy man.

 

[darscot]

Probable the worst was in a shoe store one day. You know those little benches they have that are knee high you sit on to try on shoes. Well I'm looking at shoes and didn't realise that I had backed up right against one. I turn around and just go to walk I didn't see the thing at all. Bang, I bail and literally go flying into a rack of clothes it goes flying into another rack. I don't actually go down just start stumbling at like a 45 degree angle. I'm trying to catch racks and not bail it turned into a total Kramer. At the end of it all I'm standing in the middle of total chaos the store is totaled in like a ten foot radius around me but I never went down. My wife is with me she just turns around and leaves and people burst out laughing. The only thing I could do was take a little bow and get the fuck out of there.