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What? Again? Alzheimer's Moment Limited Edition GAW
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I must confess to a killing many years ago. A moment from 1982(?).
If you work on guns a lot (and I used to) you are bound to have an AD sooner or later. I was working on 1911's one night and picked up mine. I dropped the slide on what I thought was an empty chamber (which you shouldn't do anyway on a 1911). About that time Pierce Brosnan who played in the show "Remington Steel" came up on my TV. I brought up my pistol and shot my TV right between Brosnan's eyes on what had been a screen. I was surprised to say the least.
I was so stunned that the gun actually went bang and blew my TV away that I never heard the sound, my wife of ten years (only other marriage) had been laying out to the side reading and backed up against the back wall screaming (it damn near deafened her). All I could do was look at this colt .45 like it was a snake ready to strike and finally placed the gun down cocked-and-locked (still dumbfounded) and spent the next 30 minutes assuring my wife that I hadn't done it on purpose.
Moral to the story: never aim at something you aren't willing to kill. Including your TV.
If you work on guns a lot (and I used to) you are bound to have an AD sooner or later. I was working on 1911's one night and picked up mine. I dropped the slide on what I thought was an empty chamber (which you shouldn't do anyway on a 1911). About that time Pierce Brosnan who played in the show "Remington Steel" came up on my TV. I brought up my pistol and shot my TV right between Brosnan's eyes on what had been a screen. I was surprised to say the least.
I was so stunned that the gun actually went bang and blew my TV away that I never heard the sound, my wife of ten years (only other marriage) had been laying out to the side reading and backed up against the back wall screaming (it damn near deafened her). All I could do was look at this colt .45 like it was a snake ready to strike and finally placed the gun down cocked-and-locked (still dumbfounded) and spent the next 30 minutes assuring my wife that I hadn't done it on purpose.
Moral to the story: never aim at something you aren't willing to kill. Including your TV.
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Very generous Ghostwalker, your Sebenza GAWs are extraordinarily kind. Thanks for making the forums such a great place!
1) The addition to the birth-card doesn't match the current knife
2) My moment ended up being more embarrassing than harmful in the end, but it was just me forgetting the basics of knife safety.
A garbage truck hit the tree in front of my house and so I cut a broken branch off the main limb, then trimmed it down to throw it in the yard-waste bin.
I used a Swamp Rat Ratmandu that i had just sharpened to a polished convex the night before to hack off some smaller branches, and cut once towards myself.
The knife cut through the matchstick-thin branch and fell no faster than gravity pulled and the blade bounced off my left thumb. I was initially relieved that it was just a bounce and I didn't cut myself until I looked down and saw about four different colors of tissue and bright white tendon exposed!
I ended up needing a ton of stitches, exploratory surgery to locate the severed tendon ends in my wrist, and two months wearing a splint and physical therapy.
It wouldn't have been so bad except I knew better and I was just dumb for a moment. And then I had to explain to lots of people that I knew knife safety and get lectured on knife handling - very humbling :foot: It left a cool scar though! A big smiley face to remind myself to not take life too seriously...
1) The addition to the birth-card doesn't match the current knife
2) My moment ended up being more embarrassing than harmful in the end, but it was just me forgetting the basics of knife safety.
A garbage truck hit the tree in front of my house and so I cut a broken branch off the main limb, then trimmed it down to throw it in the yard-waste bin.
I used a Swamp Rat Ratmandu that i had just sharpened to a polished convex the night before to hack off some smaller branches, and cut once towards myself.
The knife cut through the matchstick-thin branch and fell no faster than gravity pulled and the blade bounced off my left thumb. I was initially relieved that it was just a bounce and I didn't cut myself until I looked down and saw about four different colors of tissue and bright white tendon exposed!
I ended up needing a ton of stitches, exploratory surgery to locate the severed tendon ends in my wrist, and two months wearing a splint and physical therapy.
It wouldn't have been so bad except I knew better and I was just dumb for a moment. And then I had to explain to lots of people that I knew knife safety and get lectured on knife handling - very humbling :foot: It left a cool scar though! A big smiley face to remind myself to not take life too seriously...
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Ok, I'm in. Thanks for doing this, Ghostwalker. It is greatly appreciated.
1. Looks like the wrong birthcard to me.
2. I have no pics, but here it goes with one of my worst senior moments.
Some years ago on a Saturday morning, I was changing the water pump and radiator hoses on my Chevy Caprice. It needed to be done badly and timely as I had a job that night doing armed security for a rave warehouse party in a very bad part of Chicago along with a few other buddies of mine. I finished the repairs to my car. I drove to the rave party, finishing the job around 2am. I started my car, letting it warm up as my friends and I talked a bit.
I left the parking lot and was about a mile away when my thermostat started climbing REALLY fast. I pulled over, parked and shut it down in a part of Chicago that no one should be in at night. Upon inspection, I found my coolant on the street, leaving a trail behind me. When I put the new hoses on, I absentmindedly put the hose clamp on wrong on the lower radiator hose. I put the clamp on in front of the lip of the lower radiator pipe instead of behind it. Had to walk to a nearby hospital to call a tow truck and tow me home as I didn't have the proper tools to fix it. Not one of my best senior moments...
1. Looks like the wrong birthcard to me.
2. I have no pics, but here it goes with one of my worst senior moments.
Some years ago on a Saturday morning, I was changing the water pump and radiator hoses on my Chevy Caprice. It needed to be done badly and timely as I had a job that night doing armed security for a rave warehouse party in a very bad part of Chicago along with a few other buddies of mine. I finished the repairs to my car. I drove to the rave party, finishing the job around 2am. I started my car, letting it warm up as my friends and I talked a bit.
I left the parking lot and was about a mile away when my thermostat started climbing REALLY fast. I pulled over, parked and shut it down in a part of Chicago that no one should be in at night. Upon inspection, I found my coolant on the street, leaving a trail behind me. When I put the new hoses on, I absentmindedly put the hose clamp on wrong on the lower radiator hose. I put the clamp on in front of the lip of the lower radiator pipe instead of behind it. Had to walk to a nearby hospital to call a tow truck and tow me home as I didn't have the proper tools to fix it. Not one of my best senior moments...
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Thank you so much for this amazing opportunity. A Sebbie is my Grail knife and I'll never-ever be able to afford one...
1. The birthcard does not match the knife.
2. I did a lot of these moments when I got my car.
I slammed it a few times, broke the window lever by pushing on the wrong side, locked the keys in the trunk TWICE and had to get two buses at midnight to go home and get the spares...
But the funniest is probably when I forgot where I had parked my car (a Fiat Grande Punto) and spent 20 minutes forcing the door of my neighbour's car (an Opel Corsa) thinking it was my car and that the doors were just stuck... :stupid:
... imagine if the car owner or worse... a cop came and saw me trying to break into a stranger's car in midday...
1. The birthcard does not match the knife.
2. I did a lot of these moments when I got my car.
I slammed it a few times, broke the window lever by pushing on the wrong side, locked the keys in the trunk TWICE and had to get two buses at midnight to go home and get the spares...
But the funniest is probably when I forgot where I had parked my car (a Fiat Grande Punto) and spent 20 minutes forcing the door of my neighbour's car (an Opel Corsa) thinking it was my car and that the doors were just stuck... :stupid:
... imagine if the car owner or worse... a cop came and saw me trying to break into a stranger's car in midday...
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I'm in. And thanks for the chance.
1) the birth card is incorrect
2) so I am a Correctioanl Officer in the DOC and I work opposite hours of my wife most of the time. So I always send her a txt message to let her know I make it to work. So leaving for work one day I send my wife a message to let her know I'm headed out the door & on my way down the road I was at a red light & see the business card of the Sergeant who is the Range Master for the division. I was schedule to be out on the rang with him that weekend but had yet to discuss the times with him. We had given me his card & told me I could reach him by his cell number so I sent a text message to find out what time I needed to be where. He had a brief discussion & that was it....or so I thought. I pulled into work & at least thought I was sending my wife my usual text message to her to let her know I was at work. Little did I realize that I forgot that my wife was NOT the last person I had text messaged & ended up sending the Sergeant one last message which made the day at the range quite uncomfortable ! But he ended up having a good laugh about it at my expense
1) the birth card is incorrect
2) so I am a Correctioanl Officer in the DOC and I work opposite hours of my wife most of the time. So I always send her a txt message to let her know I make it to work. So leaving for work one day I send my wife a message to let her know I'm headed out the door & on my way down the road I was at a red light & see the business card of the Sergeant who is the Range Master for the division. I was schedule to be out on the rang with him that weekend but had yet to discuss the times with him. We had given me his card & told me I could reach him by his cell number so I sent a text message to find out what time I needed to be where. He had a brief discussion & that was it....or so I thought. I pulled into work & at least thought I was sending my wife my usual text message to her to let her know I was at work. Little did I realize that I forgot that my wife was NOT the last person I had text messaged & ended up sending the Sergeant one last message which made the day at the range quite uncomfortable ! But he ended up having a good laugh about it at my expense
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First, thank you very much for doing this.....
1: DOB info does not match that 21!
2: I suffered a serious concussion about 5 years ago. Not my first. It left me with PCS for what I would estimate to be 3 really tough months, but more like a half a year before I really felt like myself again.
It was one of the most difficult times of my life, and honestly the one thing that really helped me get through it was that I had just got a new dog a few months before.
Going for long walks with Rex...
Was the only thing I could do (when I wasn't sleeping, which was most of the time)
Anyway, to the point. I had very little short term memory, so if I went out for a walk I had to rely on my wife to make sure that I had my keys, phone, etc. I would either forget things like that or spend an hour trying to remember what I needed to go on a short hike and get so frustrated I would just go to sleep.
We lived in a town that had grown a lot and unfortunately the coyotes had lost a lot of their territory, so hiking in the woods meant being close to them. I always carried a knife that would be of benefit to me if there was ever an issue, although coyotes are not something that really bother me or people for the most part.
I kept the same route most days I went (getting lost was a worry) but I felt better with Rex and surrounded by tree's and water....I needed to get out as much as possible...sleep was the other option and I had to fight it when I could. PCS is a horrible thing....
I will never forget this for as long as I live, but halfway down the valley headed down to the river I felt that strange feeling like someone is watching you, I am sure you've all felt that!
I stopped.
Looked over to my right side, and there was a Coyote not more than 15ft from me.
Man, they're bigger than you think....
Rex started going nuts, he was just a pup, and I am not sure if he knew what to do!
I reached into my pocket for my trusty 940 or 710 and I pulled out my daughters SOG TWITCH with it's less than 2 inch blade!!!
Ummm....my wife packed my pockets....
I felt naked.
The Coyote ran (not because of the Twitch!) Rex was barking up a storm....
The worst part was Rex chased the Coyote, and I know how that usually goes, but he came back 15 minutes later (lucky me) I have no idea where they went or what happened.
That day my wife learned the subtle differences between knives....!
1: DOB info does not match that 21!
2: I suffered a serious concussion about 5 years ago. Not my first. It left me with PCS for what I would estimate to be 3 really tough months, but more like a half a year before I really felt like myself again.
It was one of the most difficult times of my life, and honestly the one thing that really helped me get through it was that I had just got a new dog a few months before.
Going for long walks with Rex...
Was the only thing I could do (when I wasn't sleeping, which was most of the time)
Anyway, to the point. I had very little short term memory, so if I went out for a walk I had to rely on my wife to make sure that I had my keys, phone, etc. I would either forget things like that or spend an hour trying to remember what I needed to go on a short hike and get so frustrated I would just go to sleep.
We lived in a town that had grown a lot and unfortunately the coyotes had lost a lot of their territory, so hiking in the woods meant being close to them. I always carried a knife that would be of benefit to me if there was ever an issue, although coyotes are not something that really bother me or people for the most part.
I kept the same route most days I went (getting lost was a worry) but I felt better with Rex and surrounded by tree's and water....I needed to get out as much as possible...sleep was the other option and I had to fight it when I could. PCS is a horrible thing....
I will never forget this for as long as I live, but halfway down the valley headed down to the river I felt that strange feeling like someone is watching you, I am sure you've all felt that!
I stopped.
Looked over to my right side, and there was a Coyote not more than 15ft from me.
Man, they're bigger than you think....
Rex started going nuts, he was just a pup, and I am not sure if he knew what to do!
I reached into my pocket for my trusty 940 or 710 and I pulled out my daughters SOG TWITCH with it's less than 2 inch blade!!!
Ummm....my wife packed my pockets....
I felt naked.
The Coyote ran (not because of the Twitch!) Rex was barking up a storm....
The worst part was Rex chased the Coyote, and I know how that usually goes, but he came back 15 minutes later (lucky me) I have no idea where they went or what happened.
That day my wife learned the subtle differences between knives....!
Lol. Yeah, that is a favorite activity of mine; sitting back on a sofa with a firearm watching action/war movies. A friend of mine had a .357 S&W revolver and was watching an action movie at his home a few years back and thought the chambers where empty. He cocked the hammer of his .357 and pulled the trigger. The result was a hole through his white panel ceiling and a deafening blast. He had put a hole right through his roof.
Lmao you poor guy. That must have been some conversation assuring her that that had been an accident.
,,,lol,,,
I was working my late night freight job yesterday night and had put my Ipod movie 160GB in my work bib pocket. I moved some heavy boxes and heavy hoses and forgot that the Ipod was in my pocket, didn't think much of it. When I went to punch out I felt my Ipod in my pocket and was hopeful that my Ipod didn't break... I tried turning it on after getting out the doors and it wouldn't turn on.... Says error 1437,, I hear something rattling around in the Ipod...
Shame, I loved this Ipod. I wonder if it can be sent somewhere to be fixed. I need to be more careful with my stuff.
Ccc, Wow that is one nasty looking wound there. That is as bad as the scar on my arm.
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Wow, thanks for the chance, I'm in!
1. The knife and birth card don't match.
2. Several years back, I was driving from St. Lours to TN alone. About halfway I stopped for gas and a snack. I love music, so I always crank the stereo and enjoy some tunes when driving by myself. After getting loaded back up, I hopped back on the interstate, cranked some tunes and drove for an hour or so. It's not until I'm coming into the southern edge of St. Louis suburbs on I-55 that I realized I had gone north after my fill-up rather than south like I should have. Reminded me of that scene from Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd went the wrong way.
1. The knife and birth card don't match.
2. Several years back, I was driving from St. Lours to TN alone. About halfway I stopped for gas and a snack. I love music, so I always crank the stereo and enjoy some tunes when driving by myself. After getting loaded back up, I hopped back on the interstate, cranked some tunes and drove for an hour or so. It's not until I'm coming into the southern edge of St. Louis suburbs on I-55 that I realized I had gone north after my fill-up rather than south like I should have. Reminded me of that scene from Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd went the wrong way.
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What a generous gaw! I'm in!
1. Card doesn't match the knife.
2. I work with someone who I consider to be quite annoying. One day he really ticked me off and I decided to email my buddy in the office to say that I really wanted to kick the snot out of our annoying coworker. Turns out I directly emailed the annoying coworker saying I was interested in kicking the snot out of him. I had to own up to the email and I followed up the conversation with "I still want to kick the snot out of you!" Thankfully he quit a few months later!
1. Card doesn't match the knife.
2. I work with someone who I consider to be quite annoying. One day he really ticked me off and I decided to email my buddy in the office to say that I really wanted to kick the snot out of our annoying coworker. Turns out I directly emailed the annoying coworker saying I was interested in kicking the snot out of him. I had to own up to the email and I followed up the conversation with "I still want to kick the snot out of you!" Thankfully he quit a few months later!
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WINNER CHOSEN...
After little debate a winner has been chosen.
The birth card is indeed original. Ghostwalker had a "senior moment" and thought he was adding "custom unique graphic" to a copy he had made. He accidentally wrote it on the original.
For those too proud to fess-up you missed out on a free CRK!
Not only did this member nail question # 1 he had in our opinion the best story to share.
Ccc is the WINNER!
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After little debate a winner has been chosen.
The birth card is indeed original. Ghostwalker had a "senior moment" and thought he was adding "custom unique graphic" to a copy he had made. He accidentally wrote it on the original.
For those too proud to fess-up you missed out on a free CRK!
Not only did this member nail question # 1 he had in our opinion the best story to share.
Ccc is the WINNER!
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Congratulations Ccc! Great story, nasty injury! Enjoy the knife
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Ccc, PM me where you would like my senior moment sent. And congratulations!
BTW, nice scar!
BTW, nice scar!
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Thanks again to Ghostwalker and the judges for this awesome chance, and congrats to Ccc!
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Smarta$$! Now where did I put that bicycle? What am I supposed to send this gentleman?
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I would like to mention that I have Blade Forum to thank along with friends here for some of my best senior moments. I would also like to thank ccc for service to our country.
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Congratulations Ccc!
gonebad395
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Congrats ccc this was fun