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A discussion of life's lessons learned the hard way. This usually involves pain!!

dreher
The pain can be physical or emotional but pain is a wonderful teacher.  IF you live through it!!  So let's do a long list of things we learned the hard way.  These can major things or minor things but things we painfully learned from.

I'll start off with a minor life lesson learned the painful way.

Never shoot any semi-auto rifle unless you are wearing socks!!   Why is this you ask??  I well remember a perfectly 223 shaped blister on the side of my foot.  An ejected casing dropped right between my shoe and my sockless foot.  By the time I got that casing out of my shoe I had a very large water blister on my foot!!

Keep them coming!!  There has to thousands of painful life lessons out there!! 
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  • Frogdog

    A few from my days......

    1. Don’t ever trust cross-walks.
    2. Don’t let your legs dangle when doubling on the back of a 3-wheeler.
    3. Don’t try to set a speed record on your bike the day after the county tars and gravels youre road.
    4. Trampolines.....beware the “double-bounce”.
    5. Skateboards......”speed wobbles” will always get you in the end.
    6. Don’t shoot your wife in the butt with a blow-gun dart.....she won’t think it is as funny as you do.
    7. The railroad bridge is higher over the river than it looks.
    8. Even if it looks like the gas is gone, it’s still in the dirt. Beware the “whoosh!”
    9. If you push him far enough, Grandpa really will make you “pick your own switch.”
    10. Iguanas bite......HARD.
    11. Dairy cows don’t appreciate being ridden. They also bite.
    12. Curiosity and electric fences don’t mix well.
    13. Don’t use wet river rocks for your fire ring.
    14. Sitting in that old wooden tree stand you come across may not be a good idea
    15. Hopping a train is harder than it looks in the movies
    16. When transferring from a small-boat to the Jacobs Ladder of a large ship at sea, “commit” is a key word to remember.
    17. OC Spray sucks......for EVERYONE involved.
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  • fugawe
    Don't strip the insulation off the end of a cord and twist the wires together to make a cool woodburner. Actually it works........for about two seconds. I still have the 'branding' scars.
    A knife sharp enough to cut the head off of a plastic dinosaur will also take off a significant chunk of your finger when you let it slip. We used to cut them apart and make new ones by 'welding' parts together. That's where the woodburner was supposed to come in.
    Don't be the winner in a contest where you see who can run their bicycle into a wall the fastest.
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  • dreher
    Whereas I understand how you learned that particular fact, I am totally at a loss as to why you would want to win that contest??  Since we are talking bikes I am going to guess you were not able to use alcohol as an excuse!        :D  
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  • Nanuq907
    When you use bear spray to chase a brown bear out from under your deck and he takes off across the yard, DO NOT run through the cloud of bear spray chasing him.  You'll be blind and he'll be pissed.
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  • Nanuq907
    When you put cans of chili on the engine to cook whilst driving, make sure to poke little bitty holes in the tops.  No, that *BOOF* sound you heard and the smoke is NOT from running over a critter.
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  • BikerBob

    It’s fine to not have time to go in and get stitches in your hand, but don’t rush to do the job yourself in a truck with a manual shift while sitting in the farm store parking lot after buying the super glue.

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  • grdad45
    My first experience being an electrician involved sticking a hairpin in an outlet. I was about three, but my Mom never let me forget it! She said it "Scared the pee" out of her. My Dad was an electrical contractor, so I just got an early start. You might say I have been dealing with electricity for 72 years.
    BTW- it put me in the hospital twice!
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  • Toolman286

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  • Mobuck
    "DO NOT stick your finger in a blind hole. ANY blind hole."
    You didn't know they had teeth in there, did you?
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  • bpost
    Never trust a fart when you are over 35!!!!
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  • fugawe
    dreher said:
    Whereas I understand how you learned that particular fact, I am totally at a loss as to why you would want to win that contest??  Since we are talking bikes I am going to guess you were not able to use alcohol as an excuse!        :D  
    In my defense, I was 8. I have quite a few scars from that age. A LOT of dumb things were done on dares.
    Another one. Never take a triple dog dare.
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  • Nanuq907

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  • chme
    1.  Never share a bed with anybody crazier than you
    2.  Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you
    3.  Never play cards for money with anyone named after a city
    4,  If it has teeth, and you think it's dead, reload BEFORE walking up to it
    5.  When a girl asks "Does this make me look fat?" RUN.

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  • mohawk600
    The next time you guys are skydiving and are renting your gear from the drop zone AND they tell you it is a student rig.....remember that. Although you may have a "B" license and are privileged to open your main chute at 2500' AGL......remember that the student rig you just rented has an AAD (Automatic Activation Device) designed to open the reserve at 3500' AGL if the rig is still falling at terminal velocity past 3500' AGL

    Consequences of not remembering and/or realizing this are:

    1) when you open your main on that student rig that you rented for the jump, between 3000' and 2500', you hear a strange sound and feel a "pop". You look behind you and realize that while under your main canopy, the pilot for your reserve has been popped and is trailing behind you (it is spring loaded so it shoots out to ensure opening of the reserve). 
    2) your butthole puckers up tight as you realize what is going on. Then you reach around and vigorously pull that reserve pilot chute in and stuff it between your legs. You have the LZ in sight and are praying to get down under only one canopy. Lucky you.....you made it without the reserve falling out and opening.
    3) The drop zone operator gets pretty mad because now he has to pay for a reserve repack and replacing the fired AAD on his student rig.

    I can verify that Automatic Activation Devices on skydiving rigs work as designed.
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