For example, today i nearly set my house on fire after forgetting a pan on the stove.
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Caught my shoelaces in my bike chain trying to avoid a shitty driver who almost ran me off the road (I did successfully not get hit by this idiot and eventually got him to realize how bad he was fucking up, yay).
Tired of this bullshit and am probably going to convert my bike from chain and derailleur to belt and hub like I have on my Priority Folder.
Yesterday I didn’t sleep, it was hot and couldn’t sleep.
Got up at 4am, went to work, ran errands. Then as I was driving I put the car in reverse in the freeway instead of 6th gear. What the fuck. Grinding noise.
Turns out the car no longer goes in reverse. I believe I bent the teeth in the synchro gears. Fuuuu, need to pull the transmission and take it all apart. I don’t even have concrete or anything yet. I have lived here 6 months on raw land. I guess for the next few years I need to push the car if I get stuck lol
I plan to have an automotive workshop when we build the garage, but that might be a few years away.
Does 1st still work? Reverse isn’t usually synchro’d, it’s just an idler for 1st to reverse the rotation of the output shaft.
If 1st still works, then your probably just chewed all the teeth off the idler, or shattered the gear.
Anyway. I’m impressed you managed to force it into reverse at highway speeds, that takes some serious strength (props to your shifter and linkages too), and your transmission is full of metal shavings at this point, so if you are going to drive without fixing it for a while, at least flush the fluid out.
Have fun using the Flintstone drive for reversing.
1st works fine. I didn’t force it, just shifted like normal, and knew something was wrong when there was a grinding noise. Hopefully we don’t have to push it. I once owned a stick shift car that the starter didn’t work, we had to push start it each time lol at least until I change the starter.
Yeah. You probably just blew up that reverse idler then. Not sure if that is easier or harder to fix TBH. Disassembling the whole transmission isn’t something I would do, but I could see myself dropping in a junkyard transmission, and doing my clutch and rear main seal at the same time since you’re going to have everything off and drained anyway.
Sad thing is the car only haas about 60,000 miles and the clutch bearing died about a month ago. Wasted $2,000 to have a new clutch installed because I’m on raw land and i have not built my garage yet.
Once I build my garage I plan to have a concrete pad poured so I can add a car lift. Might be a few years until I can work on this car and it’s our only car at the moment and I live in the middle of nowhere.
But good news I did buy a pickup truck on Tuesday, they are mailing the keys, title, bill of sale. So hopefully by next week we have another vehicle to drive around here. Sadly the owner died, but that’s how I got a great price on it.
I too, killed the last owner of my car to get a good deal.
This is a bad fuck up :/ I’m sorry that happened to you, I’ve almost done it myself.
It’s been quite the downer lol running errands and parking in ways I can get out ha. My wife keeps saying at least the car didnt leave us stranded, and we can still go out. We live in the middle of nowhere.
Well, gotta take the small wins. It could have been worse.
If it makes you feel better, most of my major fuck ups are cooking related. I was boiling down some dr. Pepper for jerky marinade and fell asleep. Didn’t wake up to alarms until my wife woke me up. Pretty embarrassing, and really makes you doubt your own ability to do things. Eventually you get over it and just get cagey about the very specific lead up steps, which is probably a good thing.
About, oh my a decade ago, I had what I call the toffpocalypse. I was drinking and decided to make toffee from sweetened condensed milk by boiling the cans in a pot. Well I inevitably fell asleep and woke up to the alarms in the entire apartment blaring. There was a thick smoke and the dog had pooped on the floor in fear. The cans had exploded when the water boiled away, denting the ceiling and the stove hood. I turned off the stove, opened the windows, and fanned the smoke until the alarms stopped. Luckily the building alarms had not gone off.
I had intended it to be a video gaming heavy weekend as my wife was away visiting a friend. Instead I had to use wet rags to clean toffee off of the ceiling as best as I could for all of Sunday. I did manage to mostly get it all clean. It was a good lesson to learn not to actively cook while not sober, the results could have been much worse, even fatal
I set some humming bird food to boil a while back. Got distracted in the other room and smelled smoke. Went back into the kitchen and couldn’t see the stove there was so much smoke. Then the smoke alarm went off. Very effective. Took hours to scrub the burn sugar out of the pot and days to get rid of the smoke smell in the house.
Pro tip, always set a timer when you walk away from something on the stove.
When I was living in a boarding-school like arrangement for people with disabilities once, they had really sensitive smoke detectors and if you tripped them needlessly, you were in for a hell of liability, because they immediately caused complete evacuation pocedures and an automated emergency call where not just a small contingent of firefighters were called. One night, one person forgot their pasta boiling on the stove and fell asleep on the couch in exhaustion - so deeply and long, that all the water boiled away and the noodles burned and tripped the alarm. That exhaustion cost them several thousands of Euros.
I ate too many blueberries yesterday and regret it today.
I didn’t know this was possible, could you share what you think the critical amount is?
This is obviously a fabrication. Blueberries are delicious and there’s no too many about it.
Found the big blueberry shill
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🎵 I could see the city light 🎶
How is it possible to regret eating blueberries? Like, I need more details.
Blewb poop soup
He blued himself
I’m someone who can eat multiple pounds of blueberries in one sitting. Next time, try spraying them thoroughly with vinegar and letting them soak for at least 5min, 10 or even 20 is better. Then rinse thoroughly with water. There are some tummy upsetting molds and bacterias that are neutralized by the vinegar. This works for any berries or easily spoilt produce. It’s majorly cut down on the “consequences” of my grape and berry binges.
Yeah, I do a vinegar bath when brining berries home from the grocery store. Just fill a mixing bowl with water, then add like two cups of white distilled vinegar. Let the berries soak while you put away the rest of the groceries.
I started doing it after I had some strawberries get visibly moldy only one day after I bought them. I was pissed. Since I started soaking them in diluted vinegar, they don’t get moldy anymore. They literally dry out and shrivel before they go bad. I just dunk the entire container into the mixing bowl, and let the entire thing float while I put my groceries away. Then give them a quick rinse with the sink sprayer before they go in the fridge.
When I notice them starting to dry out, I just move them to the freezer instead; They still taste fine, so after they start to dry, I use them in smoothies instead.
Are you blue?
Agreed to manage our clients AVD environment.
I had sex with a girl way out of my league. Usually I fuck down.
Wait, how is that a fuck up?
Play on words. They’re saying that fucking someone lower on the 0-10 hotness scale is fucking DOWN, so fucking someone hotter is fucking UP (I don’t really use that scale lol, just easiest way to describe it)
Ohh, now it’s too obvious, thank you!
See, this is why I shouldn’t be browsing Lemmy when I’m high as balls.
I See what you did there
I saw online a cool idea for “pinwheel burgers” and wanted to make them for my kids.
- assembled them after work, had the younger one select and apply the spices
- discovered most of the veggies were dead, and I never bought Cole slaw or cucumbers
- put them on the grill but when I went to flip them discovered I’d run out of propane
- restarted with a new tank but went inside because of the heat and humidity
- came out to flip the burgers and discovered a raging fire, and burgers like hockey pucks.
Luckily I had sufficient backup but after anticipating a new variation of burger and a new variation of Cole slaw, we had dinner two hours late, plain burgers, no veggies
Very minor, but I very recently changed deoderant after not being able to find the one I usually use. I just got to a clinic for a medication infusion and it has completely worn off, being replaced by the smell of stress sweat from traffic, and now this poor nurse has to smell me while I get my medicine, so I am mortified.
If it helps, I’m pretty sure stress sweat is far from the worst thing that nurse routinely smells. By a long shot.
the nurse probably has access to body wipes you could use; alternatively, you could see if they have some antimicrobial soap like hibiclens, washing armpits with those (like in a bathroom) works like a lasting deodorant I’ve heard
By stepping back into an abusive relationship and not knowing how to get out without fear of the person committing suicide and leaving 3 children with no parent.
Their choices are not your responsibility.
Their choices are not dependent on your choices.
You choose your own actions. You don’t control theirs.
Fear is just a feeling, don’t let it control you or stop you. Face it. Deal with it. Don’t listen to it.
I was replacing the runner lights for our stairs and was having some resistance pulling, so I tried pulling the other way. It’s currently stuck and I’ll need to take off a section of molding to push it back through. At least I did the other side correctly
Left my bicycle unattended (but locked) for 3 days. Came back to a bicycle without tires. Rip 300€
Damn that sucks. I have a chain lock but it only loops through the frame and front wheel. I use a shitty old cable with it to loop through the back tire and my pannier strap if I’m leaving it on the bike. I do this because I’ve had a wheel jacked before also, it fucking sucks.
Forgot a lunch box for weeks at work, and then they threw it out while I was sick, so now I have to buy a new lunch box.
That’s quite rude. I’m lucky at my work they just throw the food out and wash the Tupperware.
I made sure I told them, too, that I would’ve cleaned it and taken it home had I not been sick since the day before they posted the ultimatum and gave me 3 working days until they threw it out.
It was a nice glass container too.
Had a colleague who went on leave and had probably $50 of lunch in the work fridge.
New admin assistant says we have one work day to get our stuff out so she can clean out the fridge, and his stuff was all tossed.
If they’d given more notice, we probably would’ve had time to get our stuff out then ask whose food that was, and realise it was old mate’s.
That’s just anarchy, wtf.
I am the one at my workplace who throws moldy lunchboxes away. Though in pur fridge it is mostly unopened yoghurts that somebody brings and forgets about. So disappointing how much food is wasted
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I was clearing some brush with a machete, 6 stitches in my shin.
That reminds me of a few years ago when I noticed a neighbor down the street running a weed eater while wearing a small bikini. She had on heavy gardening gloves and safety goggles, but to protect the rest of her whole body just the bikini. And it was a really big-ass weed eater too, the kind with the extra side handle. Might have even been gas powered.
Yeah, well. 🤷🏼♂️
OMG. I worked on lawn care as a teen. I still to this day avert my face away from anyone weed whacking. Received many hits to the face even with safety gear.
I know right? I wouldn’t even use a weed-eater in shorts, let along a bathing suit. What got me was the contrast between the bikini and the goggles & gloves lol.
If you really don’t like your leg hair, just double up your socks. That’s no way to shave, man.
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I would probably have cleared the brush before it reached my shin, that way you could probably get by with a trimmer instead of a machete. And doing it before spring has its advantages too so the beach bod is ready before swim season.
Recently? The worst was accidentally drinking coffee too late in the evening a few days ago, which, sadly, was more than enough to mess up my well-being for several days at this point in my life.
