Dufas Moment...

[civilian]

Talk about a bummer.
Backing my FIL's car out of the driveway I had the drivers door open and looking over my right shoulder to back up. I forgot about the tree next to the driveway until it made contact with the fender.

At a party in high school, a girl backed down a curvy drive and ripped the driver door off the hinges trying to look out. Drive went down a hill with an embankment on the driver's side. Jon

 

[sandman2234]

In the spirit of good coffee posts so far...
I was assigned to my duty station after boot camp, at the ripe old age of 17 and had not yet taken up the habit of drinking coffee. As the junior man in the division, it was my assigned job to have the coffee made before 7am when everyone came to work. Every day I took the pot to the sink across the hall, and made it the same way every day, for at least a month. Now, remembering that this was my first trip on a Navy ship, one day I just used the same sink, but filled the coffee pot from the "other" faucet on the same deep sink. Everything went fine, and my 2nd class came in and poured a cup of coffee. He drank it black and tended to let it cool a little before taking a big swig. This particular morning went about the same, and he started working on pay records laid out on the desk in front of him. Then he took a big swig and sprayed a large mouthful all over the desk, pay records and even on the wall behind the desk! He called me over, told me to get a cup and pour some into it. I told him I didn't drink coffee, but he insisted. When i took a sip of the coffee, I immediately tasted a slight hint of coffee covered up by a strong salty taste. He wanted to know where I got the water for the coffee pot this morning. I told him the same sink but the other faucet. He told me that the "other" faucet was to rinse mops and was seawater straight out of the ocean! They continued having me make coffee, but he started taking a sip instead of a gulp when pouring a fresh cup.
David from jax

 

[Jstpssng]

In the spirit of good coffee posts so far...
I was assigned to my duty station after boot camp, at the ripe old age of 17 and had not yet taken up the habit of drinking coffee. As the junior man in the division, it was my assigned job to have the coffee made before 7am when everyone came to work. Every day I took the pot to the sink across the hall, and made it the same way every day, for at least a month. Now, remembering that this was my first trip on a Navy ship, one day I just used the same sink, but filled the coffee pot from the "other" faucet on the same deep sink. Everything went fine, and my 2nd class came in and poured a cup of coffee. He drank it black and tended to let it cool a little before taking a big swig. This particular morning went about the same, and he started working on pay records laid out on the desk in front of him. Then he took a big swig and sprayed a large mouthful all over the desk, pay records and even on the wall behind the desk! He called me over, told me to get a cup and pour some into it. I told him I didn't drink coffee, but he insisted. When i took a sip of the coffee, I immediately tasted a slight hint of coffee covered up by a strong salty taste. He wanted to know where I got the water for the coffee pot this morning. I told him the same sink but the other faucet. He told me that the "other" faucet was to rinse mops and was seawater straight out of the ocean! They continued having me make coffee, but he started taking a sip instead of a gulp when pouring a fresh cup.
David from jax

This reads like an April Fool's joke!

 

[Jstpssng]

A friend was doing the 1000 hr hydraulic filter change on his tractor. After changing it, he put a funnel into the reservoir fill and topped it off. After putting the fluid jug away and doing a couple of other things he came back to the tractor and realized the funnel was still in place, with the fill plug on the seat. No harm done but it certainly could have been expensive if I'd he had run it that way other it had rained.

 

[sandman2234]

This reads like an April Fool's joke!

More like December of 1973...and it was a simple mistake of a Seaman Apprentice who had never been told what the different faucets in a deep sink were for on board a US carrier.
David from jax

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Dad joined the Navy in WWII and was working in the kitchen on board a battleship. The cook told Dad to drain water out of this huge vat of spaghetti. He opened the valve and everything including spaghetti went down the drain. The cook said you're supposed to hold a stainer over it first!

 

[JethroB]

A friend was doing the 1000 hr hydraulic filter change on his tractor. After changing it, he put a funnel into the reservoir fill and topped it off. After putting the fluid jug away and doing a couple of other things he came back to the tractor and realized the funnel was still in place, with the fill plug on the seat. No harm done but it certainly could have been expensive if I'd he had run it that way other it had rained.

Driving to work one morning I saw a miles long trail of dark liquid on the concrete highway. Top a hill and there on the roadside sits one of our company tractor/trailer units. Apparently our mechanic had failed to tighten the oil pan plug the day before during an oil change. $15,000 engine replacement a dozen years ago, labor not included.

 

[kenmbz]

I left the oil filler cap off after an oil change once when I got distracted.
Figured it out when oil spray hit the windshield.....
Did find the oil cap, at the back of the engine.
What a mess that was to clean up. Car smoked for ages after that.

 

[Rockbadchild]

My brother in law just recover from a back surgery, he went to Germany got 3 disk replace (1 in his neck 2 in his lower back) ... He went to his very remote cabin (this weekend) and he was unloaded his log splitter when he lost footing and fell on a sheet of tin that was on his wood pile for rain protection, he lacerated his tendon and nerves in his dominant arm.. he his lucky he didn't die being in a very remote location but his arm will likely never be the same... I certainly wish him full recovery.

 

[Rockbadchild]

I left the oil filler cap off after an oil change once when I got distracted.
Figured it out when oil spray hit the windshield.....
Did find the oil cap, at the back of the engine.
What a mess that was to clean up. Car smoked for ages after that.

did that once too... at least you found the oil cap!!