i accidentally made this thread [NO POLITICS, NO OFFENSIVE POSTS, NO NSFW]

[JimParker256]

Talking about accidents...
I'll share this through the anonymity afforded by the forum.
Back when my 1st son was born we lived in a fairly rural part of south Florida. All dirt roads, mail box on the main dirt road about 1/2 mile away and for garbage you could take it to the dump, burn it in a 55 gal drum, or pay a local big money to take it to the dump. Anyway, as a baby we had a lot of wet diapers on burning day. Put in some garbage, put in the diapers and get it started. Well wet diapers don't burn so well, so after trying a number of times I went to the lawn mower and got some gas and put it on the diapers. Went to light it, out of matches. Into the house to get matches. Never thought about the gas vapors sinking to the bottom of the drum. Came out lit it and BOOM. a cylinder of flame out of the drum, dirty burning diapers up in the falling all over the yard, running around trying to put them out, melted section sticking to the shoes. In all very exciting. Got an instant sun burn and some singed hair and eyebrows. Live and learn

That's almost as funny as when my buddy (deceased now, so my sworn promise to never tell anyone about it is moot) was teaching me how to correctly "dump" an RVs black and gray water tanks by demonstrating with HIS camper. He was the "expert" on all things RV-related, and I was a first-time RV owner learning at his feet...

To properly set the stage, you have to imagine a tall, lanky guy with flowing hair and beard. He could have posed for some of the medieval era pictures of Jesus... He is wearing shorts, t-shirt, and flip-flops as he squats down in front of the valves with the drain hose in hand, and proceeds to lecture me on how this can get REALLY messy REAL FAST if you don't know what you're doing and follow his instructions... So I'm making sure I'm paying REAL close attention to what he's doing, and the sequence for doing it wrong...

He then proceeds to explain how you the first step is to to remove the drain cover from the RV. But being the "professor" and somewhat enjoying playing the role, he first has to explain the purpose of that cover - to prevents "drips" from the drain pipe while you're driving down the road. What that said, he proceeds to open start opening the cover... Um, professor, aren't you supposed to check the... He (in full-blown "do it like I show you or else..." mode) shushed me, and proceeded to open that cover, failing to notice that when he last dumped the tanks, he had forgotten to close the black tank drain valve.

So when he removed the drain cover, 60 gallons of absolute reeking FILTH came blasting out of the hose and onto my buddy... It's on his face, in his hair and beard - all over his clothes, and he is standing (in flip-flops, thank God) in a couple of inches of it...

The look on his face when he realized what he had done was the funniest thing I've seen in my life, except for when I looked away (to avoid embarrassing him further) and saw the husband and wife in the RV in line behind us almost dying laughing. They were laughing so hard their RV was actually rocking!

It took us a good 10 minutes to rinse all the sh*t out of his long hair and beard, and get most of it off the rest of his body and clothes, with me operating the hose and standing as far from him as I possibly could... It took another 15-20 minutes to clean up the dump site (after having to reach his hand into the much to find and open THAT drain).

At that point, he literally stripped naked outside the RV door (public spectacle be damned - he wasn't about to wear those clothes and shoes into the RV) before taking a shower in the RV while I drove it back to his campsite. When I went to get into the RV to drive away, I glanced back at the couple behind us - they were STILL laughing their asses off!

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[jsus]

Next years sun eclipse with be total where we live.

But where will you be when the next Total Eclipse of the Heart occurs?

 

[MinntoMich]

I play this, sorta

Is that a lute? Medieval music... I kinda like it. Sometimes I let the soundtrack to Medieval Total War play in the background just for the enjoyment. There is a YouTuber/music professor by the name of Peter Pringle who I think accurately tries to play ancient music.

 

[Chris_G]

Is that a lute? Medieval music... I kinda like it. Sometimes I let the soundtrack to Medieval Total War play in the background just for the enjoyment. There is a YouTuber/music professor by the name of Peter Pringle who I think accurately tries to play ancient music.

 

[Leand60]

Fire trucks are really water trucks.

 

[Barksdale123]

That's a $hitty story

You might say I was pampered

 

[Barksdale123]

Actually it's a ukulele. Tuned like one fingered like one strummed or picked like one. A company named Roosebeck makes them along with actual lutes.

 

[JimParker256]

You might say I was pampered

#SpitTake

 

[Barksdale123]

That's almost as funny as when my buddy (deceased now, so my sworn promise to never tell anyone about it is moot) was teaching me how to correctly "dump" an RVs black and gray water tanks by demonstrating with HIS camper. He was the "expert" on all things RV-related, and I was a first-time RV owner learning at his feet...

To properly set the stage, you have to imagine a tall, lanky guy with flowing hair and beard. He could have posed for some of the medieval era pictures of Jesus... He is wearing shorts, t-shirt, and flip-flops as he squats down in front of the valves with the drain hose in hand, and proceeds to lecture me on how this can get REALLY messy REAL FAST if you don't know what you're doing and follow his instructions... So I'm making sure I'm paying REAL close attention to what he's doing, and the sequence for doing it wrong...

He then proceeds to explain how you the first step is to to remove the drain cover from the RV. But being the "professor" and somewhat enjoying playing the role, he first has to explain the purpose of that cover - to prevents "drips" from the drain pipe while you're driving down the road. What that said, he proceeds to open start opening the cover... Um, professor, aren't you supposed to check the... He (in full-blown "do it like I show you or else..." mode) shushed me, and proceeded to open that cover, failing to notice that when he last dumped the tanks, he had forgotten to close the black tank drain valve.

So when he removed the drain cover, 60 gallons of absolute reeking FILTH came blasting out of the hose and onto my buddy... It's on his face, in his hair and beard - all over his clothes, and he is standing (in flip-flops, thank God) in a couple of inches of it...

The look on his face when he realized what he had done was the funniest thing I've seen in my life, except for when I looked away (to avoid embarrassing him further) and saw the husband and wife in the RV in line behind us almost dying laughing. They were laughing so hard their RV was actually rocking!

It took us a good 10 minutes to rinse all the sh*t out of his long hair and beard, and get most of it off the rest of his body and clothes, with me operating the hose and standing as far from him as I possibly could... It took another 15-20 minutes to clean up the dump site (after having to reach his hand into the much to find and open THAT drain).

At that point, he literally stripped naked outside the RV door (public spectacle be damned - he wasn't about to wear those clothes and shoes into the RV) before taking a shower in the RV while I drove it back to his campsite. When I went to get into the RV to drive away, I glanced back at the couple behind us - they were STILL laughing their asses off!

Great story. Feel for the guy. Lessons in humility come hard sometimes. (Still smiling)

 

[JimParker256]

Great story. Feel for the guy. Lessons in humility come hard sometimes. (Still smiling)

Fortunately, he had a good sense of humor - but not so good that he didn't swear me to secrecy as a condition of getting me back home from the trip we were on together... LOL I'm sure he was kidding. Well, mostly sure. But I never did tell the story until after he passed!

 

[jsus]

Fortunately, he had a good sense of humor - but not so good that he didn't swear me to secrecy as a condition of getting me back home from the trip we were on together... LOL I'm sure he was kidding. Well, mostly sure. But I never did tell the story until after he passed!

Good Humor, you say?

 

[AutoDrifter]

Anything? I found a Bicentennial quarter with no mint mark. Thinking it was rare I thought I had something valuable. Turns out the Philadelphia Mint made in excess of 800,000,000 of them. Not so rare. Turns out its worth a bit more than 25 cents.

I have a 1921 Morgan dollar coin dont know how much it is worth

 

[AutoDrifter]

Wow lol I did not expect this lol

 

[BigB]

Giddy up oom poppa oom poppa mow mow

 

[JimParker256]

I have a 1921 Morgan dollar coin dont know how much it is worth

It's pretty worthless - you should give it to me... LOL Just kidding. I like old coins, but it's been years since I've followed what something like that might be worth. If it's in decent condition, I suspect it's worth more than you might think!

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