So, what's your biggest dummy moment??

I can tell one on somebody else.

Back about 1982 I worked for this stoner who was......and still is a pretty good mechanic. Anyway, He had this bout 78 I guess Trans Am on the lift.

"Somehow" he needed to turn the car on the lift 90* from where it was to fit more stuff in the shop. It was formerly a two stall Texaco station.

I have a lot of previous experience.......literally as a kid rebuilding old air over hydraulic lifts, as I helped my old high school auto instructor rebuild all of them in the old vo-tech building.

I "knew" this particular lift was called a "quarter turn" lift. In other words, you turned the lift a full quarter turn and it unlocked the post for removal for service.

Needless to say turning the lift was NOT something you did with air pressure applied.

With me shouting as loud as I could "DON'T DO THAT!!" it was too late.

As the lift reached the 90* mark with the poor old Pontiac on it, it shot through the ceiling and into the roof. It got hung in the roof and the fire department had to be dispatched to remove it.

We were able to eventually laugh about it, but to this day he will not work on a Trans Am.