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Post by fauxmaha on Aug 13, 2020 9:23:10 GMT -5
...has anyone ever walked across a lawn, not realized there was a rake lying on the lawn, stepped on the business end of the rake just right, and had the handle come up and whap them in the face?
As a child, I just accepted that this was a commonplace occurrence. In more recent years, I'm starting to think the whole thing is nothing but a concoction.
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Post by Cornflake on Aug 13, 2020 9:25:16 GMT -5
I did that with a shovel, as an adult. The incident left a large bruise on my face. My coworkers wondered if Diane and I had been getting along.
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Post by TKennedy on Aug 13, 2020 9:26:54 GMT -5
Never seen it happen but just the other day I was walking down the street and a safe fell on the head of a guy next to me.
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Post by Marty on Aug 13, 2020 9:30:11 GMT -5
I've had a piano fall on me, well not exactly as I wasn't standing directly on the X on the ground.
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Post by mnhermit on Aug 13, 2020 9:31:01 GMT -5
Yes, but it was in a garden, and it hit my crotch
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Post by TKennedy on Aug 13, 2020 9:33:29 GMT -5
I've had a piano fall on me, well not exactly as I wasn't standing directly on the X on the ground. There was an X on the floor by the cash register at the garden center when I was there the other day. I stayed well away from it. |
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Post by millring on Aug 13, 2020 9:43:09 GMT -5
I almost had a safe fall on me. Fortunately, I slipped on a banana peel just then and slid to safety.
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Post by fauxmaha on Aug 13, 2020 9:49:27 GMT -5
What's curious is that when you step off a ledge, without realizing you've stepped off a ledge, you're given a moment of reprieve before falling to your death.
But when a safe, piano, or anvil falls on your head, the result is instantaneous.
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Post by millring on Aug 13, 2020 9:51:47 GMT -5
. But when a safe, piano, or anvil falls on your head, the result is instantaneous. Though rarely permanent. |
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Post by millring on Aug 13, 2020 9:55:31 GMT -5
The only time I ever experienced that rake-to-the-head thing couldn't have come at a more fortuitous time. I had been experiencing amnesia from an anvil having fallen on my head. Thankfully, it was the rake to the head restored my memory.
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Post by fauxmaha on Aug 13, 2020 9:56:44 GMT -5
. But when a safe, piano, or anvil falls on your head, the result is instantaneous. Though rarely permanent. Usually about four seconds in a state of "out of tune accordion" is all that happens. |
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Post by millring on Aug 13, 2020 10:20:28 GMT -5
Hey, I just saw a beagle float by my window on scent waves.
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Post by fauxmaha on Aug 13, 2020 10:42:57 GMT -5
Aggressive following of the beagle will net you a cherry pie.
Or at least a fight over a cherry pie.
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Post by millring on Aug 13, 2020 10:44:42 GMT -5
....cooling on a window ledge for no apparent reason.
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Post by dradtke on Aug 13, 2020 11:26:18 GMT -5
I did that with a shovel, as an adult. The incident left a large bruise on my face. My coworkers wondered if Diane and I had been getting along. Why did you leave a shovel lying around in your office? |
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Post by Cornflake on Aug 13, 2020 11:29:17 GMT -5
"Why did you leave a shovel lying around in your office?"
Because there was so much BS there.
(No, it was in the back yard.)
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Post by aquaduct on Aug 13, 2020 11:37:07 GMT -5
One thing you won't catch me doing again is following some guy into a tunnel.
Learned that lesson the first time.
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Post by Marshall on Aug 13, 2020 11:47:38 GMT -5
 Gang warfare. |
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Post by John B on Aug 13, 2020 19:22:39 GMT -5
...has anyone ever walked across a lawn, not realized there was a rake lying on the lawn, stepped on the business end of the rake just right, and had the handle come up and whap them in the face? As a child, I just accepted that this was a commonplace occurrence. In more recent years, I'm starting to think the whole thing is nothing but a concoction. Yes, I have done this. |
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Post by coachdoc on Aug 13, 2020 20:41:07 GMT -5
I have done this. It stung.
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