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Question of the day - Thursday 18 Feb
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Several cell phones and a fair sized hookah. :rolleyes2
There's probably more, but I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
There's probably more, but I can't think of anything off the top of my head.
Probably my low pitch treble - I was frustrated by a bad practise session and threw it onto a chair in a fit of temper....it somehow hit the wooden frame and cracked down the whole length of the mouthpiece :doh3: That was nearly £1000 down the drain....my parents were NOT amused...
The laptop that I spilled coffee on. This was a number of years ago and they weren't as cheap as they are now.
i tend to be extremely careful with the few things i own that are expensive -- like my computer, the tv, the lawn tractors, and the wood stove. that said, the motor did blow on my previous electric chainsaw a couple years ago, probably because it was a fairly inexpensive chainsaw and because i was trimming down a lot of firewood. i also blew the motor on my dirt devil canister vacuum relatively recently, probably from vacuuming up firewood debris for several years -- though it was 5+ years old too. i'm tough on my tools/equipment.
Probably dozens of things. Nothing comes to mind though.
I'm a klutz.
I'm a klutz.
I rolled a car over. Going into the third roll, I hit a house. Totaled the poor car. It was a little over a year old.
[A few hearts ...just kidding. I totalled my Pontiac I loved that car. It was storming and I didn't see the gray semi truck coming. I don't think he had his lights on.
Jeez! I'm glad you are both here to write about it. Sounds pretty horrible.
Oh, that's easy. Back in 1987, I owned a 1969 Ford Fairlane, valued at $4400, due to the previous owner having done a little bit of after-market work to it. It was a wet rainy day in June and I went around a curve a bit too fast. The car flipped, and went down an embankment, where it flipped--get this--11 more times. I totalled that car, also broke a whopping 46 bones, and tore my ACL, PCL, and LCL ligaments in both knees, as well as suffering a collapsed lung, and broke a vertabrae in my neck. Sounds lovely, right?
Holy moly. It's amazing you survived! It must have taken a very long time to heal from all of that.
19 and a half months.
Holy moly. It's amazing you survived! It must have taken a very long time to heal from all of that.
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Wow I'm so sorry that happened...terrifying. Forget the Ford, you broke your body which is way more expensive/valuable!
I haven't had that many nice things...and I'm careful with my car and stuff. I've never even broken a bone yet at age 29. :/ I did get a little crack on my Samsung Galaxy S3!
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You ":win."
I'm having trouble thinking of something for myself. I broke the railing going down to my Grandparent's basement once. Not the wood rail itself; but one of the metal brackets that attached it to the wall snapped. My Grandpa said it was ok; that my uncle (his son-in-law) had done the same thing years ago. I think we all used to jump the last few steps. It was inevitable.
A Suzuki GSX 250CC motorbike when I was about 19.
It was the other driver's fault. He was coming towards me on the opposite side of the road, wanted to turn right and cut across in front of me without looking or signaling.
I claimed on his insurance for the cost of the bike, helmet, jacket and compensation for my injuries and went back-packing around India for a year with the cash.
It was the other driver's fault. He was coming towards me on the opposite side of the road, wanted to turn right and cut across in front of me without looking or signaling.
I claimed on his insurance for the cost of the bike, helmet, jacket and compensation for my injuries and went back-packing around India for a year with the cash.
Golly, I'm not sure. Probably my car. April 1, 2011, it was a Sunday night, raining and a LOT of lightning. The kind where you don't hear the thunder but the entire sky is lighting up. Anyway, that always unnerves me for some reason. I was fairly new to driving still, less than six months. I missed my turn to get to the street that I wanted to go on (was in Logan Square in the city and needed to get to the highway to go home). I ended up coming from the north (instead from from the south), so had to make a left turn at this weird three-way intersection.
Apparently the lights were not working right because of the lightning. I made a left turn on the turn light, and there's another light very shortly after that. It's usually green when that arrow I turned on is green. It never changed, and there was another car there that I couldn't see. There's also only room for one car there. She was in the blind spot caused by that part of the car between the windshield and driver side window. Anyway, expecting the green light, and not seeing this other car, I didn't slow down as I turned, By the time I saw her it was a bit too late to stop.
No one was hurt. Her car had some damage, mine had much worse though. Neither of us even got a ticket. My first time being in a car accident ever. Ever since then though, driving when there is lightning like there was that night has me freaked out.
Apparently the lights were not working right because of the lightning. I made a left turn on the turn light, and there's another light very shortly after that. It's usually green when that arrow I turned on is green. It never changed, and there was another car there that I couldn't see. There's also only room for one car there. She was in the blind spot caused by that part of the car between the windshield and driver side window. Anyway, expecting the green light, and not seeing this other car, I didn't slow down as I turned, By the time I saw her it was a bit too late to stop.
No one was hurt. Her car had some damage, mine had much worse though. Neither of us even got a ticket. My first time being in a car accident ever. Ever since then though, driving when there is lightning like there was that night has me freaked out.
I can guarrantee you that it was no "win", that's for bloody sure!
You ":win."That sounds incredibly painful. I just can't imagine.
I'm having trouble thinking of something for myself. I broke the railing going down to my Grandparent's basement once. Not the wood rail itself; but one of the metal brackets that attached it to the wall snapped. My Grandpa said it was ok; that my uncle (his son-in-law) had done the same thing years ago. I think we all used to jump the last few steps. It was inevitable.
