Bits of Wisdom

[tealsphynx]

Exactly, and i don't know where i ever got the notion that a garbage disposal CAN turn on accidentally or by itself .... but am one to believe that just because i've never SEEN it myself does not mean it is not possible.
As far as horror stories/movies go .. i STILL can't watch them, but i try to. my Master chuckles at me the whole time whenever we watch anything gory or suspenseful .. He thinks it is funny that i cover my eyes (sometimes my ears too) when i think something startling is about to occur. i hate the feeling of my stomach jumping up into my throat as i jump due to being startled while watching that stuff. i always end up peeking from between my fingers though, i hate to miss something and not know what is going on as i watch the rest of the show.

i've seen those grab-it-claw thingies before .. but can never recall where. i REALLY NEED one of those!!! It would also be great for reaching the top shelves in my kitchen. i've always kept a stool in the kitchen, one of those claws would work. Gonna keep my eyes open .. mayeb they have them at the dollar stores, or at one of those "Only Sold on TV" stores at the mall.

The one I have is actually from the tool section of Walmart if I remember right. Or maybe it was Checker's Auto supply...it's a narrow coily thingy with little claws for grabbing nuts/bolts that fall into engine crevices while doing car work. My hubby brought it home for him to use during car work....I've stolen it into my kitchen collection. It also looks like it would be nifty to use on nipples...

 

[h_i_s]

The one I have is actually from the tool section of Walmart if I remember right. Or maybe it was Checker's Auto supply...it's a narrow coily thingy with little claws for grabbing nuts/bolts that fall into engine crevices while doing car work. My hubby brought it home for him to use during car work....I've stolen it into my kitchen collection. It also looks like it would be nifty to use on nipples...

Nice, thanks tealsphynx .. i'll look for one at Wallyworld .. don't think we have a Checker's Auto Supply store here, but if Wamart doesn't have it .. i can try a few that we do have.

For nipples?!? Uh, i'll have to check it out ... and be certain i REALLY 'need' one of them ...

 

[FurryFury]

Sorry to hear of your disposal hair thingie.

That is terrible!

*hugs*

Fury

 

[ShyGuy68]

My bit of wisdom. Never let anybody pour soda over your digital camera!! It most likely won't work after it!!

 

[Private_Label]

Echoing others in saying you were very lucky Sin. For future use, SALT works wonders on excess bubbles.

For my own wisdom learned the hard way.... After a big snowstorm; even if the apartment complex did an excellent job removing all traces from the sidewalk - one day of full sun can melt the piles to the side and lead to the stairs and steps covered with a sheet of ice in the evening. Thankfully a good grip on the railing and a backpack full of books saved my back but left me with a sprained knee, and probably a minor fracture in my hip that did not hurt all that much and was ignored initially.

 

[graceanne]

I don't know about bits of wisdom, but if someone makes an alarm that goes off when kids spill water on linoleum I (and my foot) would be much appreciative.

I bet more people hurt themselves from falling on wet linoleum than they do in fires any day.

 

[brioche]

You can often get claw things that reach the top shelves, etc. at home health care centres - the places that cater to people with mobility issues. Many people with wheelchairs need them to pick up stuff from the floor and reach things that are too high. They should have a fair selection of such things.
i only know this becuase my sister works in a drugstore that has a home health care centre in it. Some of the stuff is fascinating.

 

[DVS]

Er... looks like I jumped the tracks there.

Maybe I shouldn't make myself post when I'm so tired.

Garbage disposals are nothin to mess around with.... (but then... I'm an OCD safety nut case)

I suspect I may lose my finger in a garbage disposal one day, or in any number of gruesome ways; our family seems to have a curse involving missing right index fingers; my grandfather, two of his brothers, his brother in law, his father in law (my great grandfather), and two of my uncles (one his son in law)... in that order. On the upside, it hasn't affected my father, or any of my generation, so maybe I'm safe.

I'm none too keen to test that theory though.

No piano players in your family, I assume? You'd notice a missing digit then, I'm sure. As would anyone who listened to you play.

 

[FurryFury]

I don't like to put my fingers in folks mouths unless they are going to suck on them and lick them and stuff.

Now a yawning cat? Yeah that is fun! Love the cat's look when ya do that.

Fury

 

[DVS]

Nice, thanks tealsphynx .. i'll look for one at Wallyworld .. don't think we have a Checker's Auto Supply store here, but if Wamart doesn't have it .. i can try a few that we do have.

For nipples?!? Uh, i'll have to check it out ... and be certain i REALLY 'need' one of them ...

Look in a tool store. A hardware store maybe, but I've seen them a plenty in a store that sells tools and other things...cheap. Surely you have one of those places in your town. They usually advertise in the Sunday paper, and have everything under the sun for sale...hand tools, all sorts of saws, drills, welding kits, dollys, wenches, tarps of all different sizes and colors, assoted spray paints, a plethera of adhesives, and even a few electronic gizmos.

You name it (tools), this store has it. Lots more than a Walmart or a hardware store would have and probably cheaper, too. Of the ones I saw, some had a curved thing for your fingers that when pulled, the claws closed up. There were also those with kind of a gun trigger thing that when you pulled the trigger with your finger the claws closed up. Some were long and some were short. Some were even magnetic.

This is the place I got my tennis racket shaped bug zappers, the other day. I tell you, this place has some cool things, if you are looking for tools. But, Walmert might have 'em, too. It won't hurt to look. And, maybe a Home Depot might have it. But, if not, check for a everything in tools type of store. You might find you some bug zappers, too! $3.99, on sale!

 

[DVS]

Winder is coming up and those of us lucky enough to experience ice this season should always take care on that stuff. If you didn't know, it's pretty darn slippery.

i was working one night and walking in a parking lot that had just been graded by the local crew. It was a pretty cold night, and although the lot had been graded, what was left on the surface was a very smooth and slick sheet of ice.

It wasn't that difficult to walk on and my shoes had resistive slipping soles, too. But, I decided to stop and look around for a second and noticed some smoke coming from the top of one of the buildings near by.

Just the slow action of moiving my head from one position to another (from looking straight ahead to looking up at the smoke on the roof of this one story building) caused my center of gravity to shift ai guess and my feet slid right out from beneathe me.

I'm no clutz, so I quickly realized I was going down. Well, I didn't realize quick enough to correct the fall, but I could at least keep my head from slamming onto the parking lot. And, although I didn't plan it, I landed perfectly flat on my back with one quick bump.

Because I had a thick jacket on, and because I landed so perfectly, it didn't hurt at all. And, because it was in the middile of the night, nobody saw how stupid I looked as I landed.

OK, I didn't think that I looked that stupid, but it helped the story come to a close, don't you think? It was just one of those perfect one point landings. One point meaning the flat of my back. Well, there wasn't anyone watching as I fell. Maybe it did look a little stupid, but I guess I thought it was pretty graceful, because nobody broke out laughing.

Ya'all watch those slick spots, this winter. Ya' hear?

 

[tealsphynx]

I learned as a child not to try and walk across mudflats. The marina I lived at was in a place called Sinclair Inlet in the Puget Sound. Sinclair Inlet isn't sandy or rocky. Rather, the bottom is a nice silty mud. Ducks and geese love it, there's lots of worms and they're easy to get. There was a minus tide one day so the top half of the dock was sitting on what was normally the water's floor. I was going to play at the beach over by another dock and thought "Oh, the tides REALLY out, I can just walk across the beach instead of walking around the parking lot!" So I just jumped off the end of the dock only to find myself waist deep in soft, slimey, silty mud. Even better was my dog was with me, and she followed right after me and was burried to her neck! By the time I was almost free my mom was worried that she didn't see us at the beach so she walked up to find us in the mud and helped us out the rest of the way....needless to say I got to strip in public cause there was NO WAY I was going to be allowed back on the boat otherwise! (I lived on a boat for most of my childhood...now I know why I've had a more than sailor healthy love of West Marine's block and tackle section.....)

 

[graceanne]

When I was little, and living in Missouri, we had this tree outside that dropped these sharp seed things. They were tear dropped shaped, and came to a very sharp point. I got one of those in my foot ONCE and my mom didn't have to remind me to wear shoes outside all summer.

 

[graceanne]

Actually, a number of women in my family play the piano (it's only the men that loose fingers)

When I was about six, I asked my grandfather if I could have some of his pop. He told me I could finish it... and somehow I managed to get unpleasantly drunk on about 3/4 a can of beer.

I didn't so much as consider drinking after that till I was 20.
(not sure what wisdom can be gleaned from that though)

I remember Ice skating when I was in high school (oh for the fitness of my youth), in any case, I knew how to go, and go fast, but for the life of me I could never turn, so I fell down a lot. Most of the times I fell I was able to roll back up to my feet before I'd stopped moving, in some cases just in time to bounce off the wall.

One person asked if I were falling on purpose, apparently I made it look fun.

In anycase, after ice skating for three hours, it is very silly to think that you can handle yourself in any way on the ice without skates... which is precicely the trap that I led myself into. That wound up being the only fall that night that actually hurt, and wow did it. My hip was bruised for a week.

When we lived in Minnesota there was this huge hill with a small pond at the bottom. Mom couldn't afford skates or anythng for us, so we'd slide on it in our snow boots, pretending we were iceskating. We had a blast.

Then we moved to Texas, and Miss almost got in a fist fight with the neighbor girl (who was a born and bred Texan) cause Miss said that skates had sharp metal things under them and the neighbor girl said they had wheels.

 

[Iron Bear]

Things learned from mistakes... Ummm... well...

When they say "DO NOT EAT THE BROWN ACID", DO NOT eat the freaking brown acid.(Not from personal experience. I am not that freaking old.)

Never mix beer and whiskey.(This one is from personal experience.)

I don't care how often your wife/girlfriend says Mel Gibson has a cute ass, do not comment on actresses' tits.

That's all I can think of for now...I'll be back.

 

[shy slave]

I don't care how often your wife/girlfriend says Mel Gibson has a cute ass, do not comment on actresses' tits.

That's all I can think of for now...I'll be back.

ROFL

This reminds me that whenever your wife/gf/so asks 'Does my bum look big in this?'

DO NOT ANSWER



There is no right answer,

Never, Ever presume that just because you are their SO or Dom/Me there is a right answer.

All answers are wrong!!

 

[graceanne]

ROFL

This reminds me that whenever your wife/gf/so asks 'Does my bum look big in this?'

DO NOT ANSWER



There is no right answer,

Never, Ever presume that just because you are their SO or Dom/Me there is a right answer.

All answers are wrong!!

If I ask questions like that K just rolls his eyes at me and says 'DO I LOOK LIKE A MORON TO YOU?'

Suffice to say that my answer got my butt smacked. And the giggling I was doing at the time got me another smack.

 

[shy slave]

If I ask questions like that K just rolls his eyes at me and says 'DO I LOOK LIKE A MORON TO YOU?'

Suffice to say that my answer got my butt smacked. And the giggling I was doing at the time got me another smack.

I can guess your answer would be either the short version of 'yes' or 'maybe,'

the longer version being the same response but whilst running or at least heading out the door PDQ!!

 

[graceanne]

I can guess your answer would be either the short version of 'yes' or 'maybe,'

the longer version being the same response but whilst running or at least heading out the door PDQ!!

Actually I said 'You don't really want me to answer that, do you honey?'.