Sorry, this is off topic, but I had to share it with someone who might laugh at this rather than make me sleep on the couch for being such an idiot.
I am such an idiot. My pen was running low on ink. Rather than spend another $3-4 on another pen, my brilliant self decided to try to get three more sentences out of my pen.
So, I held my pen at the end of my fingers as I flicked my wrist back and forth as fast as humanly possible. 3-4 seconds later, everything turned blue: my computer screen, my keyboard, my favorite suit, my face, my desktop; you get the picture. Apparently when a pen is getting close to being out of ink there is more ind in it than I thought.
I look like the biggest idiot in history right now. For the price of keeping a $3-4 pen around 20-30 seconds longer, I have cost myself so much money. Perhaps I am cut out for middle management after all.
Where all of us have had moments of logical lapses and ended up looking rather stupid or embaressed or both! Dont fell too bad, its just a part of that rather annoying habit of Being Human!
Here we encourage all to tell us there story and admit, hey, I’m just human…
I’ll add my little story. I had just finished rebuilding an old beach cruiser into a really cool hot rod of a bike, new paint, a Nexus 7 speed drivetrain and hub brakes front and rear, Harley seat, and motorcycle handlebars, real sweet ride… so at a group ride I’m riding around showing off my new rod when I decide to hop up a curve where everyone was watching, no sooner than I pulled up the front wheel then it fell right off…the fork dug into the grass and I went right over in front of everyone! Ninkompoop! I forgot to tighten the front axle nuts down! [:o)]
D’oh!
Anyone else wi***o share? Ah come on, were all friends here…[;)]
Railroad-related:
Couple on to a train, cut in the air, wait for brakes to release, do the brake test, walk the release back to the head end, take the winter snowsuit off, then get back up and get dressed again, because as the engineer started to move the train the air dumped; then walk back 75 car lengths in the snow again to the coupling you just made sixty minutes ago, and start over again, this time MAKING SURE THE PIN IN THE KNUCKLE FALLS!
Let me guess; those damn BIC pens. Those things often explode just looking at them funny…crappy pens…that’s if they work in the first place than they become trash can inhabitants.
My great habit when I lived in Manhattan and had my office in White Plains was to ru***o Grand Central, get the Metro North train, get off at White Plains North Station, walk to the office, and then realize my keys to the office were still in my Manhattan apartment. Solution: eventually a hidden spare key near the office door. I think I have kicked that habit where I am now, anyway. But I think it is the Eternal’s help and not that I am really getting any smarter.
They get out of a van and on to train parked in siding at away terminal. Train consist is two Dash 9s bracketing a single box car to be set out at a facing point siding enroute. Conductor, a newly promoted engineer, set back to train service, carefully sets the up trailing unit (behind boxcar) to trail including isolating the unit, setting up the brake stand and releasing the handbrake and walks back up past the boxcar to the lead unit and gets on. Having a clear on the dwarf the engineer pulls the little train on to the main. About half a mile up the road the engineer stops and the conductor sheepishly gets down and walks back to the boxcar past the slightly hazy brake smoke and releases the handbrake on the boxcar…
No no, much cheaper than that…I hope you didn’t pay that much for those crappy things. Of course when I was in school, I used to take the good pens from the teacher’s desk…(anybody in school don’t do this) Bad influence I’m turning out to be…[:I]
The worst that I can think of is your sister has just shaken a can of pop on you out of revenge for being on the phone too long. I was sitting at my computer at the time and it was cream soda.
(My other half has been known to be waiting for me in the garage with a firehose and a box of soap…especially after timber bridge fire inspections)[:-^]
I have found that I go through pens WAY to fast to spend that kind of money on them. I buy blue Uniball Micro pens by the case though. Always have at least 2 or 3 with me. What good is a lawyer, or railroader for that matter without a pen?! They are great. Ink like a felt tip, hard point like a ballpoint. I think they are $7.50 for a box of 12 at Staples. Well worth it. The blue helps show which signature is the original…