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Learning Things the Hard Way

Topazfyre

Topazfyre

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Thought I'd post a reminder of things that one should be careful after I was forced to learn them the hard way this week. :sobstory:I think everyone should take head of this thread, and please feel welcome to post your own lessons you've had to learn. ;)

1. Keep an eye on your snake AT ALL TIMES when you have it out. Before I say anything further, yes, I found her about 20 minutes of looking. But, as I was weighing Freyja earlier this week, I turned around for less than 5 seconds to grab a container. Look back- She's GONE! I thought she may have gotten into the scale, so I completely took apart the scale- no snake. Look in the dresser drawers, no luck. Finally look under the dresser, there she is. :eek: I think I can safely say now this happens to everyone. Whether it's conscious or not everyone thinks this won't happen to them until it does.:noevil:


2. If you see something strange with your thermometer, CHECK IT OUT.I fully trust my thermostat. I have a mark on the dial for what it is supposed to be set at for a good temperature range, and it hasn't failed me yet. On the other hand, my thermometer has two probes that I have a tendency to confuse between temp and humidity probe. I also use them for other things, so when I saw that my thermometer read 68*F and 34% humidity after misting the viv, I checked the thermostat. The thermostat was fine, so I assumed I had confused the probes again. 1 regurge out of Freyja later (big week for her), I realize I had NOT confused the probes, but my thermostat was, in fact, in a dead power socket and OFF. The humidity had remained the same because it hadn't had time to recognize the change. Do not assume something is fine until you fully investigate it.


3. Always have a garbage bin nearby. Carrying a new regurge across the house to the nearest garbage bin is just not cool.


4. Clean your vivs regularly. After having decided to put off cleaning the vivs for a month, I finally had a free day where I just got it done. Of course, I needed to use the hose outside to get it done easily. And, of course, it starts to rain the moment I begin. So I had fun being wet for 2 hours in the winter rain cleaning my vivs with the dogs around, because I didn't have the time any other day of the week. If you are not doing anything, just get it done or you may have to do it under unaccommodating circumstances.

Also, it's very lucky I did them that day, because two days later I learned my final lesson to you all.
5. Do not cut the turkey leg with the scissors. Seriously- that's not a metaphor. I'll keep a long story short-a 'minor' puncture wound to the pinky finger has resulted in a tendon repair surgery thanks to BOTH tendons in that finger being completely severed. Part of that surgery was an exploratory surgery into the palm. So, I get full use of my forearm and left hand in 10 weeks, and for now it hurts like dark fiery places. :devil01:
 
Don't know why it cut this off of my original post, but I also wanted to say thank you for reading this thread, and I hope your week has been better than mine. If not, feel free to post your own sob story, I know I'd love to hear it. In the meantime, I'm going to go pop another pain pill... *they seriously need techni-colored smilies here*
 
Wow, you're a modern day Confucius! I'm so sorry that you had to learn all of this the hard way, and thank you for giving me some definite food for thought!

(I -- sometimes! -- will feed a snake in a container that I leave uncovered because I'm standing right over it, watching...and then something happens, and I run away for a second...always sure that the snake will still be there, because it's so incredibly busy, right? I know that Murphy's Law is going to crash down on me if I keep doing that! I shall take that as a non-lesson well-learned & never do that again...!)

I hope that your hand heals perfectly! *fingers crossed*
 
Cegninedorf said:
Wow, you're a modern day Confucius! I'm so sorry that you had to learn all of this the hard way, and thank you for giving me some definite food for thought!

(I -- sometimes! -- will feed a snake in a container that I leave uncovered because I'm standing right over it, watching...and then something happens, and I run away for a second...always sure that the snake will still be there, because it's so incredibly busy, right? I know that Murphy's Law is going to crash down on me if I keep doing that! I shall take that as a non-lesson well-learned & never do that again...!)

I hope that your hand heals perfectly! *fingers crossed*
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LOL, I do that, too- never again. (Yeah, right, I'll probably do it by accident next feeding. :rofl:) Thank you for well wishes, though!
 
It's a good list of lessons to learn.

Oh yeah, and I can completely sympathize with your hand. I cut a tendon when I was cooking dinner... by putting my hand down on a knife. Nothing like feeling like a complete idiot and having a wimpy injury turn serious. lol I still don't have full feeling or movement in that finger.

Hope yours goes better though.
 
I truely hope the next ten weeks flies past for you, and you make a full recovery!

I think you should put a request in to Rich, for a special smilie just for you to use in the mean time.....a seriously technicolour one.....lol

Best wishes,
 
I hope you feel better soon.My contribution is don't show off when chopping onions. I did when I was a student living in a shared house (a few, ok, 20 years ago).The result of me telling my friends that you're more likely to cut yourself with a blunt knife whilst preparing dinner was 4 stitches in the tip of my left ring finger, a vertical scar there, and loss of the feeling in that area permanently, plus the howling laughter of my friends. It was such a small wound, but the addition of onion juice into it from the knife was a refinement only I could manage.
 
Jrgh17- I know what you mean- my first thoughts were 'How could I have so stupid?! This is really severely annoying.' :headbang::laugh:

Susielea: Why wait for Rich?
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Thank you for inspiring :trippy: ;)
 
diamondlil said:
I hope you feel better soon.My contribution is don't show off when chopping onions. I did when I was a student living in a shared house (a few, ok, 20 years ago).The result of me telling my friends that you're more likely to cut yourself with a blunt knife whilst preparing dinner was 4 stitches in the tip of my left ring finger, a vertical scar there, and loss of the feeling in that area permanently, plus the howling laughter of my friends. It was such a small wound, but the addition of onion juice into it from the knife was a refinement only I could manage.
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Ouch...... You must've damaged that nerve pretty well there, and I'm sure the onion juice helped out so much... >o<

Heh, my brother and I laugh about my injuries all the time. Just last year I was trying to open a window that had been painted recently. I tried to slam it to get it loose- window shattered. I checked myself for injuries, and sure enough I had two lacerations, a deep but relatively benign one on my right forearm and one right on my wrist. I ended up barely nicking the nerve, scratching a tendon, and just exposing the artery- a millimeter away from disaster. My brother and I were cracking up all the way to the ER while my mom was freaking in the back seat.:rofl:
 
Topazfyre said:
Heh, my brother and I laugh about my injuries all the time. Just last year I was trying to open a window that had been painted recently. I tried to slam it to get it loose- window shattered. I checked myself for injuries, and sure enough I had two lacerations, a deep but relatively benign one on my right forearm and one right on my wrist. I ended up barely nicking the nerve, scratching a tendon, and just exposing the artery- a millimeter away from disaster. My brother and I were cracking up all the way to the ER while my mom was freaking in the back seat.:rofl:
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Is it just me... or are we a very special variety of people? :sidestep:
 
:rofl:Well seeing as I'm crying with laughter whilst wincing over the window accident....we definately are special!
 
And a lesson or two from near fatal accidents involving my mother;
Don't approach the gas oven with a match after the pilot light has failed My mother smelt gas, went to relight the oven and was blown across the room.
Don't poke a pair of scissors down a live plug socket to remove wallpaper
Again, there was a bang and my mother flew backwards across the room.
In both incidents the result was us children standing in shocked silence which swiftly turned to gales of laughter.
And a lesson from me as a child;
Don't try to swallow a roast potato whole
Luckily my brother grabbed and heimlich-ed me and the offending potato flew across the room like a champagne cork .After I turned less blue my whole family wet themselves.
 
diamondlil said:
And a lesson or two from near fatal accidents involving my mother;
Don't approach the gas oven with a match after the pilot light has failed My mother smelt gas, went to relight the oven and was blown across the room.
Don't poke a pair of scissors down a live plug socket to remove wallpaper
Again, there was a bang and my mother flew backwards across the room.
In both incidents the result was us children standing in shocked silence which swiftly turned to gales of laughter.
And a lesson from me as a child;
Don't try to swallow a roast potato whole
Luckily my brother grabbed and heimlich-ed me and the offending potato flew across the room like a champagne cork .After I turned less blue my whole family wet themselves.
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O_O Sounds like a lot of flying across the room when you were a kid! :rofl:
 
My favorite had to be when my roommate almost cut his nipple off.

Yes, you read that correctly. Never cut things close to important body parts... :roflmao:
 
Yeah, lessons in the practical application of physics can be painful.

My earliest (that I can remember):
- never shoot at .22 bullets with a BB gun. Newton's law of equal and opposite reactions sends the case backwards, you know. Actually, it's not an equal reaction, since the heavier bullet resists the powder explosion more than the lighter case so the case goes faster.

Many in between

My most recent:
- Learn what all the buttons and switches do BEFORE riding a new motorcycle. Gravity and Asphalt have yet to lose to skin and bones.

This was where I learned to enjoy Percocet boilermakers.
 
MerlinsPop said:
Yeah, lessons in the practical application of physics can be painful.

My earliest (that I can remember):
- never shoot at .22 bullets with a BB gun. Newton's law of equal and opposite reactions sends the case backwards, you know. Actually, it's not an equal reaction, since the heavier bullet resists the powder explosion more than the lighter case so the case goes faster.

Many in between

My most recent:
- Learn what all the buttons and switches do BEFORE riding a new motorcycle. Gravity and Asphalt have yet to lose to skin and bones.

This was where I learned to enjoy Percocet boilermakers.
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ouch.... My uncle got into a motorcycle accident recently, had to have half a but cheek removed. Hence the eruption when I told my mom I may want a bike in the future instead of a car to save on gas...
 
Topazfyre said:
ouch.... My uncle got into a motorcycle accident recently, had to have half a but cheek removed. Hence the eruption when I told my mom I may want a bike in the future instead of a car to save on gas...
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True. I was smart (or lucky) enough that day to be wearing full riding great. Looked anything but cool I'm sure, but I had minimal road rash. Unfortunately, I landed on my head and right shoulder going 45 and no amount of padding could prevent my collarbone from crumbling and my egg from scrambling. But they're both allllll better now (just don't get behind me going through airport security if you're in a hurry).
 
Injuries? What injuries? I don't have no stinkin' injuries! Ok so I have a couple minor ones.

1) In middle school in the locker room there were some girls snapping wet towels at everyone. I went to get away from one girl and slipped and fell on my knee and sprained it. I was on crutches for several weeks. And half my classes were on the ground floor and half were upstairs. Lesson - Don't run. Ball up your fist, turn around, and beat the crud out of them.

2) Getting kicked in the mouth with someones heel is not the best way to loose your two front baby teeth. My friend decided he wanted to play leap frog... however he forgot to inform me and just did it.

3) The best way to impress the boys is not by falling on glass while trying to race them. Trip to the hospital for 3 stitches.

4) When you are flirting and do one of those playful hits....make sure the bleachers aren't in the way first. Sprained finger.

Ok so I am pretty dull.
 
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