[Land-speed] shop comments sorta... ( no LSR )...

[joseph lance]

Once upon a time--I welded my watch band to the terminals of a voltage 
regulator, caused one hell of a burn on my wrist.

Lance

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Cowle" <SCowle at mentorcollege.edu>
To: <BWANA343 at aol.com>; <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] shop comments sorta... ( no LSR )...


> There is something comforting in knowing i'm not the only one who has done
> stupid things.I guess my best was when I worked as a mechanic in a garage 
> and
> I used a crowbar to put tension on an alternator belt and I was crouching 
> down
> by the front fender to tighten one of the bolts when the crow bar slipped 
> and
> I hit myself square in the forehead. I could feel myself losing 
> consciousness
> and my boss was just standing there looking at me as if I was an idiot, 
> and I
> trying not to look like the idiot I was( am?) said" that should do it" and
> tried to walk nonchalantly away.Then there was the time I set my own shop 
> coat
> on fire by putting a distributor wrench down on the car's battery and it 
> touch
> both posts and went redhot igniting my coat as I was leaning over the
> engine-geez. Scott