You know how, if you kind of know you way around mechanically, you decide whether to have the disc brake rotors on your car turned when you’re going to do the brakes?
You check to see if they’re warped, and whether they have been scored by the old pads.
You shouldn’t, however, drive home down a 1,000 foot hill, pull into your driveway, get out of the car, and reach past the mag wheels to run your fingers over the (hot!! damn!! damn hot!! really damn hot!!) rotor.
I’ll be typing with my left hand for a day or so until the blisters on my fingertips go down…
BTW, some newer rotors are so thin they can’t be turned down. Your sacrifice may have been in vain.
Aaaaaah!
There’s nothing quite so exquisite as a 2nd degree burn on the fingers, is there?
Dude! Where’s your brain? Hope you slathered it with Crisco or something… *smirk*
(Hey, what are friends for but to make fun of you when you hurt yourself in stupid ways? Love you! *mwah*)
I know only one French joke. Something told to me long ago…a question about why the French planted trees….????
I know only one French joke. Something told to me long ago…a question about why the French planted trees….????
Now you know why conservatives don’t object when people in New York, Washington and Boston ban guns. Because we think liberals are too dumb to be allowed to own them. Smirk.
Just kidding. Been there, done something like that. After a ride back from the dealer with parts for an oil change on the old FJ-1200, I thought “I’ll reach under the header and unscrew the old oil filter here… Aaaaaiiiiiieeeeeahhhhh! Shit shit shit…”
The blisters went down in a couple days. It took longer than that for the missing skin to grow back, and the arm hair was messed up for much longer.
Eeeeww! Owitch! I know the feeling. I was cooking fried eggs for my sons and cracked the egg and -to avoid splashing hot oil- got REAL close down to the oil, and promptly dipped 3 fingers in, frying in less time than my reflexes could snap my hands outta there, the backs of three knuckles on my right hand and two on my left.
Bear with it. And learn!
“A change in behavior is the concrete manifestation of a lesson learned!” Dan Jordan, Dean of Education, Yale Univ.