The stupidest thing I have ever done...
I still feel stupid , just not alone. Thanks for sharing your tales. It takes the anger away reading that things like this happen to others as well. Keep them coming
Ok, here you go then.
I R&R'd a 4x4 trans and transfer case and when I got done I tripped over the converter laying on the floor.:D
Once pushed really hard on a top radiator hose in a van with my thumb trying to get it off the water neck and when something finally gave it was my thumb.
It was folder over backwards parallel with my arm and I had to pull it back into place and finish the job.
Drove a windy road to work every day in a Fiat 850 Spider usually going way to fast and one day had two people in the car with me and didn't take the extra weight into consideration.
Rounded the first big corner and the rear of the car started to wash out which would have directed us straight into a telephone pole sideways.
Seeing as how there was no way I was going to let that happen I straightened the wheel and flew right off the high side of the banked turn, over a 4 foot barbed wire fence into a freshly plowed field.
It handled the jump pretty well and scooped up a tractor bucket load of dirt with the front end and totally buried itself in poison oak so tight we had to roll down the windows and crawl out.
I found a gate and opened it to get back out on the road and once on the pavement again every single wheel bolt was loose and the car felt like it was going to fall down like a wobbly newborn calf.
All three of us had poison oak worse than we have ever gotten before.
All said and done, it was still better than hitting that pole at 70 sideways.:D
My Brother jokingly still disagrees about the pole being the worst possibility, because at some point he must have scratched his nuts with poison oak on his hands.
