Stupid Things I Have Done

[Dftodd]

See the thread about pill organizers....

You got a link. It's not popping up when I search it.

 

[MossRoad]

You got a link. It's not popping up when I search it.

Sorry, it was some comments in the you might be old thread. I think. Maybe... hmmm. I forget.

 

[ultrarunner]

There are a lot of things that separate a good engineer from most, and near the top of that short list are:

1. Wrench-turners. If you were the kid fixing everyone's bicycles at age 13, and then all of your friends' cars at age 17... you're going to be a better than average engineer.

2. Talk to the production and service folks. If your short list of best friends don't include the people who've been producing and servicing the product for 20-30 years, you're doomed to repeat all the mistakes of the past.

3. Work in manufacturing, or if you don't have the chance to do it, at least hang out there. E.g., if you're designing machined parts, you'd better have a pretty good idea of how the machinist is going to fixture and mill or turn that part, so you don't come up with designs sensitive to tolerances they can never hope to hold.

I resemble this… neighborhood bike fixer before a teen… restored first car before I had a drivers license and worked on the floor of tool and machine shop with jobs for NASA, Caterpillar, James River, Hexcell, DelMonte, etc. after Engineering school.

 

[Dftodd]

Sorry, it was some comments in the you might be old thread. I think. Maybe... hmmm. I forget.

That sometimers is kicking in

 

[Alan46]

I thought Seacrest is the new host of wheel of fortune???

He is I was just messing with you people! Good catch!

 

[Dftodd]

He is I was just messing with you people! Good catch!

I figured it could be plausible. That dude seems to be out to replace everyone in Hollywood and do their job.

Didn't he take over for Casey Casum (not spelled right) and Leno???

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

You guys are starting to make me nervous.
How do you know these things?
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Have you been following me around?

When I was a young buck, in the starving, pre-starving student mode. I worked as a highway department inspector for projects constructed by others in the right of way.

I was inspecting a pipeline contractor putting a 24-inch high pressure natural gas line in, and we had about half a mile of trench opened up at about 0200, and were starting to backfill. A guy who had just left the bar and was stumbling drunk, came through the barricades trying to get to the front entry to his apartment complex, and dropped his front axle in the trench. The super and I went over to see what it would take to get him out of our way, and explain how to get to his apartment. He went AH, and started cussing us out, saying nasty things about our families, etc. He was winding himself up to get in a fight. All the while the laborers had gathered around behind him with their shovels.

He got himself wound up, and toed up on me. At which point the Super informed him that if he swung, the laborers would smack him in the head with their shovels, and they would bury him under the pipe, drive his car down the block to the nearest bar, and no one would know where he went to for at least a hundred years. And while this was gong on the foreman called the police and they rolled in to arrest him for DUI, and have his car towed to the impound.

After things calmed down, the Super and I were talking, and I asked him if they really would have buried the guy. His response: I ain’t ever needed to, but rumor is my daddy, and my uncles have more than once. And, everybody on the job, is a son or nephew of them.”

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

I bought my first new car, '72 Toyota Celica ST when I was 19. Late one night in a drunken stupor I drove to my parent's home taking back roads when somehow I was crossing the parking lot of the Fleet Enemas factory and never saw the loading dock that dropped off onto train tracks.
I thumbed a ride home and at 7am a few hours later awoke to Dad pounding on my bedroom door saying "I don't know what you did last night but your car is on the tracks at the enema factory and a train is coming through in 30 minutes!".
I stumbled downstairs and called a towing company that was close by who got it off the tracks just in the nick of time.

 

[airbiscuit]

You can't make that stuff up!

 

[masseyrider]

I bought my first new car, '72 Toyota Celica ST when I was 19. Late one night in a drunken stupor I drove to my parent's home taking back roads when somehow I was crossing the parking lot of the Fleet Enemas factory and never saw the loading dock that dropped off onto train tracks.
I thumbed a ride home and at 7am a few hours later awoke to Dad pounding on my bedroom door saying "I don't know what you did last night but your car is on the tracks at the enema factory and a train is coming through in 30 minutes!".
I stumbled downstairs and called a towing company that was close by who got it off the tracks just in the nick of time.

Fleet Enemas?