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so... tonight, my big brother was fixing his motorcycle, when he got his hand stuck in the chain and ended up cutting of half of 2 of his fingers (thumb and index finger)
now: this is the question..
what is the grossest thing that has happened to you?
ex: broken bones, etc.
for me: some of you may remember when i broke my jaw.. thats probably the worst for me.
Happened to me about twenty five years ago in Cabinetmaking shop in the vocational high school. I was building a red cedar lounge chaise for poolside use. My friend and I were using a twelve inch industrial jointer to make straight some boards for my project. I had the jointer set for a deep cut because the cedar is a soft wood.
My friend and I left the machine and went to the wood storage room to retrieve some more lumber. We were walking out of the woodroom toting several sixteen foot boards, when I see a classmate heading for the big jointer. I hollered at him by name and told him I was not done with the machine. He had a small piece of what appeared to be hardwood.
He bent down and started the machine without checking the cut depth, mistake #1, he then pulled the guard back out of the way, mistake #2. He then placed the small board into the jointer. The jointer ejected the board, which came flying by me like a rocket, and sucked his right hand into the cutting blades. It went in all the way in to the knuckles.
In the process of trying to stop him I dropped my end of the sixteen foot lumber, ran towards the machine, dodged the ejected board and hit the big red panic stop button. But I was too late, the damage was done. I was standing on the other side of the machine when he pulled what was left of his hand out of the machine. It was very gross, all four fingers were tapered from 1/16th of an inch to 1/4 of an inch. The setting I had on the machine.
When his hand cleared the machine he went into shock. Within five minutes he was in an ambulance on his way to the hospital. That is when I noticed the bits of bone and flesh that had spun up the front of my uniform. I ran to the bathroom and became sick for a few minutes. I did not work the rest of the day.
The kid's dad tried to sue the shop teacher and the school. The judge dropped the lawsuit after my memo and deposition were presented and I did not even go to court. The kid violated every shop safety rule from A-Z.
Well the first one is when we were in Lakeland, FL for a Flyball tourney. We were staying in a motel that had recently had the parking lot re-blacked. The bumpers that stop your car from going up on the sidewalk were also blacked. I didn't notice that when we first checked in. So, the next morning (FL is on Eastern time, I live in Central time, so at 5:30 a.m. ET it is like 4:30 CT.) we got up at 5:30 a.m. I put on my shorts, tee shirt, and socks and shoes and got a leash on my Labrador to take her out. I planned to come back and brush my teeth and hair before going to play Flyball. I went out the door to our room and headed towards the parking lot. It was still dark and I didn't see the bumper thing in the parking space. My feet stopped, but the rest of me didn't. As I was falling I put my hands out to keep my face from hitting the ground. My ring finger and little finger of my left hand bent backwards and I felt them touch my forearm. Broke my hand in two places. Well, we had an early ring time so on our way to the show site, my hubby dropped me off at the ER. After I was x-rayed and bandgaged I was discharged. Funny thing about ERs after you've been discharged they want you to leave. I tried to call my hubby, but he couldn't hear his cell ringing in the show site because of all the barking. Eventually, the nurses started asking if I was in need of anything. (remember I never got to brush my teeth or hair, I must have looked like a homeless person. Stragglely and now loopy on pain meds.) I was sitting on the curb outside the ER when a guy pulled a pickup truck in front of me. He said, "Are you Fay?" I said, "yes." he said, "I was sent to pick you up." I was a little loopy from the pain medicine they had given me so I got in his truck. A couple of miles down the road I realized I had just gotten into a car with a total stranger. So I started staring at him. Then all of a sudden my brain clicked in and I said, "Oh I know you! You own a Jack Russell on the 'Too Hot To Handle' team!" He said, "That's right. I was worried you wouldn't come with me!"
Second injury, we were once again in Lakeland, FL. (Bad Karma in Lakeland) in a different motel. I had seen a show on tv about bacteria and gross stuff on the floors in motels. After I had already taken my socks off and got into bed I realized my lotion was still on the counter next to the sink. Well, as all P sufferers know, you can't make it through the night without your lotion. So I hopped up, thinking if I ran fast my feet wouldn't get too much muck on them, and I ran right into the luggage rack. I heard my toe break! No ER this time. I just taped the toes together and suffered until I got home.
I don't really dislike Lakeland, FL, but I don't especially want to go back there. :)
I was young, 22 maybe, and walking up the subway steps when I tripped. I didn't think anything was wrong until I realized I couldn't pick up my briefcase. The middle finger of my left hand was dislocated, turning at a neat 90 degree angle at the middle joint. It didn't hurt but visually I knew I had a problem. I was at 59th St. and CPW and walked to the clinic I went to through my HMO at 62nd and York. Three blocks down and LOTS of blocks over. I should have gotten in a cab but I was so used to walking that's what I did. On the way over, someone stopped me for directions and even after I showed him my hand and told him I had to get to the doctors he kept talking. I finally made it and they fixed me up pretty nicely. Minor compared to some of the stuff that's been posted, but fortunately that's my worst. Well, once I got drunk and slammed my thumb in a car door and they had to remove my thumbnail. That wasn't any fun.
Tom, reading about your accident made my fingers hurt! Ow! It's an injury I can identify with. (not that I don't feel for the people who had fingers cut off! I just know how much it hurts to have fingers bent the wrong way!)
hi kimberly,
my gross's thing that has every happen to me. waking up in the moring and seeing how my hands got so bad over night.
have a good night my friend
richard
Rich wins!
Around 1984 in Atlanta they were building Spaghetti junction. It is where I-85 and I-285 cross. I was coming off of I-85 South to head North on I-285. As I came off of the exit ramp, I was nearing the top of a hill. I noticed a GDOT truck in the fast lane stopped just above the crest of the hill. There was no traffic coming, so as I began moving over lanes, I looked in my side mirror, and saw an old style VW bug flying up I-285 in the fast lane. before I could do anything he hit that GDOT truck going over 70 MPH. I watched as it decapitated the guy, then his passenger door flew off, and I ran over it. I could not stop, I knew there was nothing I could do, and I knew I would not be able to handle it. Not a nice thing to see. I actuallly have a few more, but I'll wait.
OMG!!!! Oh, oh, oh!!! Oh, to witness such a thing!!
I remember it like it was yesterday.
I'll have that image burnied into my brain for ever.
That's the stuff nightmares are made of! :(
OK, here's another one..........
I am going around I-285 there is a Cadilac full of people in the fast lane.
There is a concrete barrier the divides the lanes of traffic.
There is a tractor trailer that wants to be in the fast lane.
He comes over right on top of that Caddy.
I was right behind it all.
I hit the brakes and watched.
By the time they came to a stop, the Caddy was probably no more that 4 feet wide.
The people were squashed into each other.
I could not stop for that one either.
I've always heard driving in Atlanta is a life threatening experience. Now I believe it!
Here is one:
We were getting ready to move from our house in Montgomery to our new house in Wallsboro. My hubby took the day off to clean stuff out of the attic. Our attic entrance was a whole cut in the ceiling so he had to put a ladder under the entrance and pull himself up into the attic. There wasn't a lot up there, just some boxes of old clothes and Christmas decorations. Anyway he had brought down most of the stuff and was going up for the last couple of boxes when the ladder slipped out from under him. He only fell about 5 feet, but it was enough. He called me at work and said, "I think my ankle is broken." I said, "I go to lunch in 30 minutes and I will come home. It's probably just badly sprained." He called me again from the ER where he had driven himself and walked from the parking lot into the ER. By the time I got to the hospital they had given him morphine and were getting him ready for surgery. They put two pins in his ankle and they said over and over how they couldn't belive he had taken himself to the hospital!
Yes, driving through Atlanta is a nightmare,,,,,,I make DH drive there. I have driven in LA, Seattle, Kansas City, Denver and across the country but Atlanta and St Louis are the worst I've ever seen. We found going through is easier than the by-pass and try to time it for a week end. We'll be coming through on the 9th.
So far, no accidents.
I've always heard driving in Atlanta is a life threatening experience. Now I believe it!
Here is one:
We were getting ready to move from our house in Montgomery to our new house in Wallsboro. My hubby took the day off to clean stuff out of the attic. Our attic entrance was a whole cut in the ceiling so he had to put a ladder under the entrance and pull himself up into the attic. There wasn't a lot up there, just some boxes of old clothes and Christmas decorations. Anyway he had brought down most of the stuff and was going up for the last couple of boxes when the ladder slipped out from under him. He only fell about 5 feet, but it was enough. He called me at work and said, "I think my ankle is broken." I said, "I go to lunch in 30 minutes and I will come home. It's probably just badly sprained." He called me again from the ER where he had driven himself and walked from the parking lot into the ER. By the time I got to the hospital they had given him morphine and were getting him ready for surgery. They put two pins in his ankle and they said over and over how they couldn't belive he had taken himself to the hospital!
That is a guy thing deffinatly :D
Yes, driving through Atlanta is a nightmare,,,,,,I make DH drive there. I have driven in LA, Seattle, Kansas City, Denver and across the country but Atlanta and St Louis are the worst I've ever seen. We found going through is easier than the by-pass and try to time it for a week end. We'll be coming through on the 9th.
So far, no accidents.
:D That is so funny Granny! One time we were driving back for NC and I drove most of the way, but I work my hubby up on the east side of Atlanta and made him drive through the city, then on the west side he pulled over and I drove the rest of the way to Montgomery! Atlanta makes my plams sweat and you know that is bad for my p! ;)
hi scott,
all those poor poeple. i drove in and then out of Atlanta, both times doring rush hour. i never seen so many lanes of cars going so fast. to me it was like a race track :D :D :D
have a safe and fun drive all
richard
When we came home at after Christmas my DH was soooooooo sick. I drove from Birmingham to the west side of Atlanta and made him drive through,,,then I drove us home. Atlanta does not seem that big,,,just annoying. Could it be all those Northern drivers going through,,, ;) ;) :p
This happened many years ago before cell phones were so popular that everyone had one at hand. My hubby and I had stopped at a gas station at about 10:30 in the evening. While he was pumping gas I watched as a woman holding the hand of a child came running through the gas station. Just as she got to the place where all the water and air things are on the side of the lot, a car pulled up and a man got out. He shouted at her and she shouted back. Before I could think, he pulled his fist back and hit her in the face so hard I swear I saw the soles of her shoes! He got back in his car and with screeching tires raced out of the station. I hopped out of the car and ran to the cashier and shouted for him to call 911. It wasn't necessary because on the other side of the station there was a police car that took off after the speeding car. My hubby and another man ran to the woman, but she had jumped up and grabbed the hand of the child and took off running again. The only thing she said was, "He'll be back!" I often wonder what happened to her and the child.
Yes, driving through Atlanta is a nightmare,,,,,,I make DH drive there. I have driven in LA, Seattle, Kansas City, Denver and across the country but Atlanta and St Louis are the worst I've ever seen. We found going through is easier than the by-pass and try to time it for a week end. We'll be coming through on the 9th.
So far, no accidents.
You are correct... Taking I-285, the bypass, is not really a shortcut. It is mainly for the tractor trailers. It keeps them out of Downtown Atlanta.
Our rush hours are as follows:
Morning: 5:45am - 10:00am
Afternoons: 2:45pm - 8:00pm
As long as you can stay away from those times, you can just fly through Downtown on I75/85.
I always heard that Atlanta's Friday rush hour starts at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday! :D
My best friends Uncle used to kick our butts all the time out in front of my friends house (wrestling and stuff).
One day my friends Uncle was at work putting roof shingles on a house. Well he slipped and slid all the way down, catching a nail on the way. When he hit the ground, he found out that his, um, 'Man Toolbag' had been ripped open and his stuff was hanging out.
I assume he got everything fixed, but we used to tease after that and say "Man I bet you aint got the balls to wrestle with us now!"
now: this is the question..
what is the grossest thing that has happened to you?
ex: broken bones, etc.
for me: some of you may remember when i broke my jaw.. thats probably the worst for me.
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Happened to me about twenty five years ago in Cabinetmaking shop in the vocational high school. I was building a red cedar lounge chaise for poolside use. My friend and I were using a twelve inch industrial jointer to make straight some boards for my project. I had the jointer set for a deep cut because the cedar is a soft wood.
My friend and I left the machine and went to the wood storage room to retrieve some more lumber. We were walking out of the woodroom toting several sixteen foot boards, when I see a classmate heading for the big jointer. I hollered at him by name and told him I was not done with the machine. He had a small piece of what appeared to be hardwood.
He bent down and started the machine without checking the cut depth, mistake #1, he then pulled the guard back out of the way, mistake #2. He then placed the small board into the jointer. The jointer ejected the board, which came flying by me like a rocket, and sucked his right hand into the cutting blades. It went in all the way in to the knuckles.
In the process of trying to stop him I dropped my end of the sixteen foot lumber, ran towards the machine, dodged the ejected board and hit the big red panic stop button. But I was too late, the damage was done. I was standing on the other side of the machine when he pulled what was left of his hand out of the machine. It was very gross, all four fingers were tapered from 1/16th of an inch to 1/4 of an inch. The setting I had on the machine.
When his hand cleared the machine he went into shock. Within five minutes he was in an ambulance on his way to the hospital. That is when I noticed the bits of bone and flesh that had spun up the front of my uniform. I ran to the bathroom and became sick for a few minutes. I did not work the rest of the day.
The kid's dad tried to sue the shop teacher and the school. The judge dropped the lawsuit after my memo and deposition were presented and I did not even go to court. The kid violated every shop safety rule from A-Z.
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Well the first one is when we were in Lakeland, FL for a Flyball tourney. We were staying in a motel that had recently had the parking lot re-blacked. The bumpers that stop your car from going up on the sidewalk were also blacked. I didn't notice that when we first checked in. So, the next morning (FL is on Eastern time, I live in Central time, so at 5:30 a.m. ET it is like 4:30 CT.) we got up at 5:30 a.m. I put on my shorts, tee shirt, and socks and shoes and got a leash on my Labrador to take her out. I planned to come back and brush my teeth and hair before going to play Flyball. I went out the door to our room and headed towards the parking lot. It was still dark and I didn't see the bumper thing in the parking space. My feet stopped, but the rest of me didn't. As I was falling I put my hands out to keep my face from hitting the ground. My ring finger and little finger of my left hand bent backwards and I felt them touch my forearm. Broke my hand in two places. Well, we had an early ring time so on our way to the show site, my hubby dropped me off at the ER. After I was x-rayed and bandgaged I was discharged. Funny thing about ERs after you've been discharged they want you to leave. I tried to call my hubby, but he couldn't hear his cell ringing in the show site because of all the barking. Eventually, the nurses started asking if I was in need of anything. (remember I never got to brush my teeth or hair, I must have looked like a homeless person. Stragglely and now loopy on pain meds.) I was sitting on the curb outside the ER when a guy pulled a pickup truck in front of me. He said, "Are you Fay?" I said, "yes." he said, "I was sent to pick you up." I was a little loopy from the pain medicine they had given me so I got in his truck. A couple of miles down the road I realized I had just gotten into a car with a total stranger. So I started staring at him. Then all of a sudden my brain clicked in and I said, "Oh I know you! You own a Jack Russell on the 'Too Hot To Handle' team!" He said, "That's right. I was worried you wouldn't come with me!"
Second injury, we were once again in Lakeland, FL. (Bad Karma in Lakeland) in a different motel. I had seen a show on tv about bacteria and gross stuff on the floors in motels. After I had already taken my socks off and got into bed I realized my lotion was still on the counter next to the sink. Well, as all P sufferers know, you can't make it through the night without your lotion. So I hopped up, thinking if I ran fast my feet wouldn't get too much muck on them, and I ran right into the luggage rack. I heard my toe break! No ER this time. I just taped the toes together and suffered until I got home.
I don't really dislike Lakeland, FL, but I don't especially want to go back there. :)
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I was young, 22 maybe, and walking up the subway steps when I tripped. I didn't think anything was wrong until I realized I couldn't pick up my briefcase. The middle finger of my left hand was dislocated, turning at a neat 90 degree angle at the middle joint. It didn't hurt but visually I knew I had a problem. I was at 59th St. and CPW and walked to the clinic I went to through my HMO at 62nd and York. Three blocks down and LOTS of blocks over. I should have gotten in a cab but I was so used to walking that's what I did. On the way over, someone stopped me for directions and even after I showed him my hand and told him I had to get to the doctors he kept talking. I finally made it and they fixed me up pretty nicely. Minor compared to some of the stuff that's been posted, but fortunately that's my worst. Well, once I got drunk and slammed my thumb in a car door and they had to remove my thumbnail. That wasn't any fun.
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Tom, reading about your accident made my fingers hurt! Ow! It's an injury I can identify with. (not that I don't feel for the people who had fingers cut off! I just know how much it hurts to have fingers bent the wrong way!)
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hi kimberly,
my gross's thing that has every happen to me. waking up in the moring and seeing how my hands got so bad over night.
have a good night my friend
richard
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Rich wins!
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Around 1984 in Atlanta they were building Spaghetti junction. It is where I-85 and I-285 cross. I was coming off of I-85 South to head North on I-285. As I came off of the exit ramp, I was nearing the top of a hill. I noticed a GDOT truck in the fast lane stopped just above the crest of the hill. There was no traffic coming, so as I began moving over lanes, I looked in my side mirror, and saw an old style VW bug flying up I-285 in the fast lane. before I could do anything he hit that GDOT truck going over 70 MPH. I watched as it decapitated the guy, then his passenger door flew off, and I ran over it. I could not stop, I knew there was nothing I could do, and I knew I would not be able to handle it. Not a nice thing to see. I actuallly have a few more, but I'll wait.
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OMG!!!! Oh, oh, oh!!! Oh, to witness such a thing!!
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I remember it like it was yesterday.
I'll have that image burnied into my brain for ever.
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That's the stuff nightmares are made of! :(
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OK, here's another one..........
I am going around I-285 there is a Cadilac full of people in the fast lane.
There is a concrete barrier the divides the lanes of traffic.
There is a tractor trailer that wants to be in the fast lane.
He comes over right on top of that Caddy.
I was right behind it all.
I hit the brakes and watched.
By the time they came to a stop, the Caddy was probably no more that 4 feet wide.
The people were squashed into each other.
I could not stop for that one either.
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I've always heard driving in Atlanta is a life threatening experience. Now I believe it!
Here is one:
We were getting ready to move from our house in Montgomery to our new house in Wallsboro. My hubby took the day off to clean stuff out of the attic. Our attic entrance was a whole cut in the ceiling so he had to put a ladder under the entrance and pull himself up into the attic. There wasn't a lot up there, just some boxes of old clothes and Christmas decorations. Anyway he had brought down most of the stuff and was going up for the last couple of boxes when the ladder slipped out from under him. He only fell about 5 feet, but it was enough. He called me at work and said, "I think my ankle is broken." I said, "I go to lunch in 30 minutes and I will come home. It's probably just badly sprained." He called me again from the ER where he had driven himself and walked from the parking lot into the ER. By the time I got to the hospital they had given him morphine and were getting him ready for surgery. They put two pins in his ankle and they said over and over how they couldn't belive he had taken himself to the hospital!
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Yes, driving through Atlanta is a nightmare,,,,,,I make DH drive there. I have driven in LA, Seattle, Kansas City, Denver and across the country but Atlanta and St Louis are the worst I've ever seen. We found going through is easier than the by-pass and try to time it for a week end. We'll be coming through on the 9th.
So far, no accidents.
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I've always heard driving in Atlanta is a life threatening experience. Now I believe it!
Here is one:
We were getting ready to move from our house in Montgomery to our new house in Wallsboro. My hubby took the day off to clean stuff out of the attic. Our attic entrance was a whole cut in the ceiling so he had to put a ladder under the entrance and pull himself up into the attic. There wasn't a lot up there, just some boxes of old clothes and Christmas decorations. Anyway he had brought down most of the stuff and was going up for the last couple of boxes when the ladder slipped out from under him. He only fell about 5 feet, but it was enough. He called me at work and said, "I think my ankle is broken." I said, "I go to lunch in 30 minutes and I will come home. It's probably just badly sprained." He called me again from the ER where he had driven himself and walked from the parking lot into the ER. By the time I got to the hospital they had given him morphine and were getting him ready for surgery. They put two pins in his ankle and they said over and over how they couldn't belive he had taken himself to the hospital!
That is a guy thing deffinatly :D
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Yes, driving through Atlanta is a nightmare,,,,,,I make DH drive there. I have driven in LA, Seattle, Kansas City, Denver and across the country but Atlanta and St Louis are the worst I've ever seen. We found going through is easier than the by-pass and try to time it for a week end. We'll be coming through on the 9th.
So far, no accidents.
:D That is so funny Granny! One time we were driving back for NC and I drove most of the way, but I work my hubby up on the east side of Atlanta and made him drive through the city, then on the west side he pulled over and I drove the rest of the way to Montgomery! Atlanta makes my plams sweat and you know that is bad for my p! ;)
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hi scott,
all those poor poeple. i drove in and then out of Atlanta, both times doring rush hour. i never seen so many lanes of cars going so fast. to me it was like a race track :D :D :D
have a safe and fun drive all
richard
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When we came home at after Christmas my DH was soooooooo sick. I drove from Birmingham to the west side of Atlanta and made him drive through,,,then I drove us home. Atlanta does not seem that big,,,just annoying. Could it be all those Northern drivers going through,,, ;) ;) :p
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This happened many years ago before cell phones were so popular that everyone had one at hand. My hubby and I had stopped at a gas station at about 10:30 in the evening. While he was pumping gas I watched as a woman holding the hand of a child came running through the gas station. Just as she got to the place where all the water and air things are on the side of the lot, a car pulled up and a man got out. He shouted at her and she shouted back. Before I could think, he pulled his fist back and hit her in the face so hard I swear I saw the soles of her shoes! He got back in his car and with screeching tires raced out of the station. I hopped out of the car and ran to the cashier and shouted for him to call 911. It wasn't necessary because on the other side of the station there was a police car that took off after the speeding car. My hubby and another man ran to the woman, but she had jumped up and grabbed the hand of the child and took off running again. The only thing she said was, "He'll be back!" I often wonder what happened to her and the child.
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Yes, driving through Atlanta is a nightmare,,,,,,I make DH drive there. I have driven in LA, Seattle, Kansas City, Denver and across the country but Atlanta and St Louis are the worst I've ever seen. We found going through is easier than the by-pass and try to time it for a week end. We'll be coming through on the 9th.
So far, no accidents.
You are correct... Taking I-285, the bypass, is not really a shortcut. It is mainly for the tractor trailers. It keeps them out of Downtown Atlanta.
Our rush hours are as follows:
Morning: 5:45am - 10:00am
Afternoons: 2:45pm - 8:00pm
As long as you can stay away from those times, you can just fly through Downtown on I75/85.
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I always heard that Atlanta's Friday rush hour starts at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday! :D
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My best friends Uncle used to kick our butts all the time out in front of my friends house (wrestling and stuff).
One day my friends Uncle was at work putting roof shingles on a house. Well he slipped and slid all the way down, catching a nail on the way. When he hit the ground, he found out that his, um, 'Man Toolbag' had been ripped open and his stuff was hanging out.
I assume he got everything fixed, but we used to tease after that and say "Man I bet you aint got the balls to wrestle with us now!"
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