I'm afraid of Canada geese while I'm wearing dress pants but not when wearing jeans. Because if one decided to bite me in the testicle it would be a lot more damaging if I'm wearing dress pants. Denim is thicker and thus provides more protection.
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I sometimes have dreams of shower head malfunctioning like turning off when it shouldn't, spraying something other than water, the middle of the head opening to show a deep black endless hole...#### gets weird.
I also never stop next to the wheel of a big truck at a red light, or drive beside one in that spot, because I'm afraid of being killed in a split rim tire explosion.
I don't know if that's technically irrational or just really, really unlikely.
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I also never stop next to the wheel of a big truck at a red light, or drive beside one in that spot, because I'm afraid of being killed in a split rim tire explosion.
I don't know if that's technically irrational or just really, really unlikely.
not at a red light, but I do know someone whose car was hit by an exploding truck tire on the 401 near Toronto.
The air sprayer nozzle hooked up to compressed air. I worry I'll grab it, shove it in my ear and hit the trigger.
I have a similar thing with the seeds from avocados. Whenever I pick one up I have a fear that I'll put it into my mouth and it will get stuck in my throat.
The air sprayer nozzle hooked up to compressed air. I worry I'll grab it, shove it in my ear and hit the trigger.
I nearly lost my leg to a pressure washer incident.
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After the Flood in 2013 I was helping my dad clean-up flood damage at the ranch. I was using a pressure-washer to clean out the stable, wearing just shorts and sandals. I set the wand down, and somehow it got triggered and started flailing around - the stream cut a gash across my leg like a sword, blood gushing out every time my heart beat. My dad gave me first aid, and I seemed ok for a day or two. Then, my leg got very sore and swollen, and the emergency doctors were worried I had flesh eating disease. There was talk of amputating my leg, but first they tried antibiotics to see what would happen. Turns out my leg was not infected, but my leg was swollen just from the trauma of the pressure wound. I was able to go home a few days later on crutches
That I'll start a thread here, and no one will reply.
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I nearly lost my leg to a pressure washer incident.
Industrial accidents scare me. I work for a company that does a lot of contacting for large industries and some of the accidents I hear about still freak me out.
I used to do some work at Alcan in Kitimat and during a health and safety meeting we were told about a contractor who sustained a fatal injury from an industrial pressure washer. The hose slipped out of his hand and started whipping around. He tried to catch it and was impaled.
I also heard of one in the U.S. where a guy thought he would be funny and pressed the side of his head up to the suction end of a hydrovac truck and it sucked his brain out though his ear.
And at one of the paper mills I was at, they told us about a guy that caught on fire and jumped into what he thought was a ditch full of water, but it ended up being some kind of fuel. Apparently the guy survived and is badly disfigured, but he goes around teaching health and safety lessons.
At the same mill, someone was on the roof taking videos for some reason and walked right off the ledge to his death.
And when I lived in Thunder Bay, a couple of girls climbed up a grain elevator and fell down a shoot. Apparently the shoots start off wide but get really narrow near the bottom. It freaks me out just thinking about it.
And trains, don't even get me started about trains.
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