Drifting13
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G'Morning, y'all. That pic was of me only I used a paperclip...
The Original Old Farts Club
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Good mornin! Things never change.....you guys are already at it. I must be on Cali time. I'm always one step behind. A bit of coffee will help out though.
Supposed go be snowing here now. Guess it is late in coming. All I see is two coyotes and a squirrel.
Working in the grow this morning ..... Lots to do. That's ok....labor of love most of the time.
Development company is building houses on the other side of the Golf course. I can' t believe how they are crammed together. Looks like they are only 6 foot apart! What happened to setbacks? Million dollar homes built so close together you could pee into your neighbors bedroom from yours. No yard just humanity in a
box!
Why is it that every little boy has to stick something into a wall outlet....I did it ONCE!!! You learn quick.
Supposed go be snowing here now. Guess it is late in coming. All I see is two coyotes and a squirrel.
Working in the grow this morning ..... Lots to do. That's ok....labor of love most of the time.
Development company is building houses on the other side of the Golf course. I can' t believe how they are crammed together. Looks like they are only 6 foot apart! What happened to setbacks? Million dollar homes built so close together you could pee into your neighbors bedroom from yours. No yard just humanity in a
box!
Why is it that every little boy has to stick something into a wall outlet....I did it ONCE!!! You learn quick.
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Good morning too , or , also
how does everyone like their eggs?
sunny-side up for me!
how does everyone like their eggs?
sunny-side up for me!
Wannabe_Biker
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Nice!!
I have to go out in the cold rain to work.
I tried to retire last year but one of my employers made me
an offer I could not refuse. I'm supposed to work two days a week but today is
day three.
I have to go out in the cold rain to work.
I tried to retire last year but one of my employers made me
an offer I could not refuse. I'm supposed to work two days a week but today is
day three.
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i remember those days Amigo!.....keep your chin up , retirement will eventually arrive!
moar coffee!
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It was a pair of tweezers in a wall socket that taught me how to do the 60 cycle shuffle at the tender age of three. A quick thinking Mom probably saved my silly *** by kicking me across the floor. Thanks, Mom.
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so I was browsing through some old Coffee Shoppe employee photos from when my grampa ran the Shoppe and I waxed quite nostalgic
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ROSTERMAN
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Flip them all over
My first electrical experience was prying a stuck plug out of a socket using a butter knife, which blew the fuse and a hole in the knife.
I can't start to estimate how many times I've been hooked up since, but mostly it just makes me hurt myself jerking my hand out of an enclosure somewhere. I got hooked up once really good, wearing shorts on a hot sweaty day and kneeling on a stainless sink while changing an overhead fluorescent light. I didn't trip the breaker because the wall switch was off, but I forgot about the electrical receptical in the light for razors and such, which was hot even with the switch off and cut halfway into it with a set of electricians pliers.
It nailed me hard and froze me in place so with all my inner strength I started to open my hand to get loose, and then it started arcing in my hand and burning me, sooooo I leaned to one side and fell off the sink, thereby breaking me free.
My nerves were jangly for several hours afterwards and I now understand how some folks get electrocuted with a piddly 120VAC.
I can't start to estimate how many times I've been hooked up since, but mostly it just makes me hurt myself jerking my hand out of an enclosure somewhere. I got hooked up once really good, wearing shorts on a hot sweaty day and kneeling on a stainless sink while changing an overhead fluorescent light. I didn't trip the breaker because the wall switch was off, but I forgot about the electrical receptical in the light for razors and such, which was hot even with the switch off and cut halfway into it with a set of electricians pliers.
It nailed me hard and froze me in place so with all my inner strength I started to open my hand to get loose, and then it started arcing in my hand and burning me, sooooo I leaned to one side and fell off the sink, thereby breaking me free.
My nerves were jangly for several hours afterwards and I now understand how some folks get electrocuted with a piddly 120VAC.
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Was that a bit of leg calf in that one
You sure had go through a lot more clothes back in those days to get near the good stuff.
On the other hand it looks like there is enough room to hide under the folds of some of those dresses.
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I believe my heart problem started this way too. was hit with 240 at main panel many yrs ago
had to basically fall away from box it had the death grip on me.
I passed out for short time and no one else was there to see me when it happened.
I never received any medical help at the time, but to this day I suffering from half my heart not getting a signal to fire correctly.
So please be careful LOL
Yeah Right, Careful what's that..........................
120 will fry ya under those circumstances.
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ROSTERMAN
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That is why they made so many flavors of toilet water.
Yeah, not to forget that was before running water and daily showers.
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So tell me old wise one, what were the Lady's that worked at Big Jill's like?
I guess the men stank even more LOL
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GW, the worst I ever took was my right arm touching the neutral side of a 220 30 amp wire with my left arm touching a 4" cold water pipe. Knocked me off of and 8' scaffold and flat on my back. Slurred my speech for fifteen minutes. As soon as I could talk, I told 'em to call the meat wagon off. They insisted. I told them I was fine and wasn't going to any hospital.
Got hit by 277 volt and burned a black spot on one of my tattoos. Both times I was working around scab electricians. Not one of 'em would own up to being the ******* that caused it. Go figure.
Got hit by 277 volt and burned a black spot on one of my tattoos. Both times I was working around scab electricians. Not one of 'em would own up to being the ******* that caused it. Go figure.
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There WILL come a day, WB. Trust yer Unca. I have now been retired from a company longer than I worked there.
You'll hear the hosannahs:
"And yea! All the people threw camel schit... because in those days, confetti was not yet invented."
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