absent minded...

JRSutton · May 1, 2014

Man I scare myself sometimes...

I had to spray some epoxy primer tonight.

Mixing the primer up, put my beer down, and was
walking around with the open can of hardener in my
hand, looking for a stirring stick.

Took a while to find one - long enough to forget
what I was holding.

(a small can of PPG epoxy hardner is suprisingly
similar to a 12oz beer can)

My internal clock told me it was time for a swig
of beer - raised it to my mouth...

I can't believe how close I got to drinking that
stuff.

Caught myself right at the very last second.

I read the danger label afterwards - that could
have ruined my evening.

Billy Shafer · May 1, 2014

I am getting that way myself. Was cranking a new chain saw then realized I had the wrong gas in it. Would have been very hard to explain to the customer why his new saw was now scrap.

fixerupper · May 1, 2014

It would prime you up alright! Some of that stuff is wicked if imbibed. I can see myself doing that. Something that scares me is the similarity in the size and shape of a bottle of eye moisturizing drops like Murine, and a bottle of super glue. Every time I lube my eyes up with that stuff I take a close look at the label. Jim

Fergienewbee · May 1, 2014

BTDT. Put gas in the oil compartment on the chainsaw a couple weeks ago. Caught it right away. Constantly lose my cup--set it down and can't remember where. Same with tools. Ain't it fun to get old?

Larry

Frank 41 · May 1, 2014

A friend back in the 50s was at a gas station drinking out of a Squirt bottle. He put it down and picked up what he thought was his and took a drink. It was brake fluid. That put him in the hospital.

He always said he had all of his money tied up in lots and houses, lots of whiskey and w____houses.

MT RON · May 1, 2014

WHY are you mixing epoxy primer with out a respirator on anyway?Ron

Don-Wi · May 1, 2014

My brother caled me a couple weeks ago- he was changing the oil in his lawn mower and put the oil in the gas tank instead of the engine. Didn't try starting it before he figured it out atleast.

Asked me if it'd be ok. I told him it'll just smoke a little bit but it'll be fine.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Dan T in MO · May 1, 2014

I enjoy a pinch between the cheek and gum and I enjoy my Pepsi. An empty Pepsi bottle makes a handy cuspidor. I always look at whatever it is I'm about to take a swig of.

ShadetreeRet · May 1, 2014

Some years ago, I bought some two cycle oil that was blue. One day both my son and myself were using weedeaters and he went to the shed to gas his up. About ten minutes later I went looking for him, and there he was trying desperately to crank his weedeater. Seems he had picked up a jug of anti-freeze which was also blue, and filled the tank. By the time I got there it had already sucked anti-freeze through the carb and into the engine. Needless to say, a carburetor cleaning and kit was in necessary.

Steve@Advance · May 2, 2014

Back in the younger and much wilder days (and nights)... Working late one night, several of us doing something to an old car, wrench in one hand, beer in the other...

I pulled the radiator out, friend had sat his beer on the floor in front of the car, the radiator was still draining antifreeze out as I carried it across the shop. Some of it must have went in his beer.

"Danm that beer tastes funny!" Didn't stop him, he just kept on drinking it!

Next evening he came by, said he had the worst hangover of his life! Tried to tell him that beer had antifreeze in it, wouldn't listen, lucky he wasn't dead!

JRSutton · May 2, 2014

I think I'd take the hardener over that.

JRSutton · May 2, 2014

I knew somebody would catch me on this. I was rushing to spray it before the sun went down.

I actually had the respirator around my neck, just not on my face. I realize it doesn't work as well there. But I did put it on my face when I actually mixed the stuff.

Donald Lehman · May 2, 2014

Huh????? Now whut was you saying?

NNP · May 2, 2014

I know what you are saying.....
Don't trust myself.
My drinking water bottle (2-liter pop bottle usually) gets put down on my workbench in the same spot EVERY time.
Even if I have to walk for it and to put it back.
Anything else in bottles gets put on the floor, never on the bench, not even for a second.

jennifer408 · May 2, 2014

husband say he suffers from CRS can't remember shirt or chit or however you spell it. poop, that's it, CRS can't remember poop.

BAnNC · May 2, 2014

That may explain the bad hangover from drinking locally made sippin's that were produced with old radiators, huh?

37chief · May 2, 2014

Thought you were going to say something like what I did with my PPG primer. I measured out the primer in a can. Measured out the hardener, them poured the hardener into the full can of primer sitting there with the top off. You only do that one time, with the price of that stuff. Stan

jerrybigrig · May 2, 2014

I thought you were going to make a reference to a bad paint job....my dad will see a bad paint job and says it looks like someone drank a quart of paint and owed out his paint...

IH2444 · May 2, 2014

I had been meaning to read this thread but kept forgetting to.

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