don't oil your hood hinges!!!!

When I was about 17, my step-mom had a 76 Corvette Stingray. Everyday I spent in Ohio that summer I was out working on this car. Nothing major. Just clean-up stuff like polishing the chrome dress-up kit that someone had put on it, washing and waxing it, just stuff to keep a 17 year old occupied until step-mom comes home with the keys and I can go driving! Anyway, this one day I was trying to figure out why the horn only worked sporadically. I popped the hood open, and to get at the horn you had to reach between the bottom of the hood and the back of the front fascia. I was planning to check the wiring pigtail for corrosion. Well, I was digging around in there, and I apparently hadn't opened the hood far enough that the hinges locked in place. My shoulder pushed into the hood, and it slammed down and latched with my hand between the front of the hood and the back of the front fascia. Thank God those cars are fiberglass! My step-brother was sitting in the driver's seat and I started screaming at him to open the hood! My dad was in the back yard and he came running. The whole time my step-brother just had this stupid look on his face and never moved. My dad had to yank open the door and pop the hood latch so I could get it open. I didn't break my hand, just a bit of a scrape across my palm and across the back of my hand where the hood and fascia caught it. That was the LAST time I ever worked on the horn for that car. I never did get the wiring apart to check the connection, but after that it worked perfectly. Every time.