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21st September 2016, 05:25 PM #16GOLD MEMBER
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23rd September 2016, 08:27 AM #17Skwair2rownd
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Not properly checking that I had removed all the amo from my rifle.
Grabbed it to go shooting and it slipped from my hand onto the floor resulting in
a bullet zinging past my right ear. Two inches to the left and I would have been a goner!!
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23rd September 2016, 05:28 PM #18SENIOR MEMBER
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Congrats on the marathon
In terms of stupidest thing I've done, I'm sure most of us can go on for hours. There's heaps of things I've done that could have been stupid but fortunately didn't result any real harm. In terms of the one thing that did was when I was about 4 decided to take bigger brothers bike for a quick spin. This was back in the days when helmets were not mandatory and riding was still a new concept to me. Decided to turn back around but thought in my mind "I know I'll do one of those cool skids that I see kids do" End result was me landing head first on the footpath with such force that a pebble the size of a 5 cent piece lodged itself into my face just under my right cheek bone, have a fairly nice scar on my face to remind me every time i look in the mirror.
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23rd September 2016, 08:56 PM #19Member
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Hmm to many to list. Probably telling my boss that I would pull his arms off if he shouted at me again followed by me walking out. Led to 18 months of unemployment
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26th September 2016, 01:26 PM #20rrich Guest
Another dumb thing or two:
I had a real rectum orifice for a boss. From day one he tried to motivate me with fear.
Conversations would go like this:
"If I fired you, how would you make your truck payments?" "What are truck payments." His car payments at the time were about $1500. (2 vehicles in the late 1980s.)
"If I fired you, how would you pay your mortgage?" "I don't have a mortgage." His mortgage was almost $3000 at the time.
"If I fired you, you would lose your pension." "Unh, actually Congress passed laws to protect people like me from people like you."
My vice president, Julie, was sitting I'm my office, after hours, and had given me some important organizational information over some flavored ice cubes. My boss calls, she notices on the display that it is my boss. She says to put it on speaker. My boss gives me some organizational information that is contradictory to what Julie just said. Julie motioned for me to 'go ahead'. I started off, "Well Julie just told me. . . " My boss then goes into this tirade about not wanting me to talk to Julie. Then Julie says "I'll ask your permission before I talk to Rich again." I muted the phone, Julie and I were laughing so hard and high fiving one another. I unmuted the phone and Julie said that she would call my boss in his office. Julie poured a bit more over the ice cubes and went to her office.
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