BS: Never...

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 06:24 PM

Never poke your finger into the water in an electric jug so see if it getting close to boiling.

In my defence, I was a rather naive 17YO.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: JennieG
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 06:22 PM

.......say never......

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 04:53 PM

On a more serious note, NEVER get home from the pub after a few drinks, start to fix yourself something to eat, and fall asleep leaving the gas stove lit. This is too often fatal - literally.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 04:38 PM

Never bake a squash without first making a hole for steam to escape.

This one's unique: never use the Miracle-Gro solution intended for the houseplants to fill the reservoir in the piano's Dampp-chaser. I have a friend who tunes pianos, and she found the strangest things growing in a college's Dampp-chasers. It took a while to figure it out.

(A Dampp-chaser is an appliance which either adds or removes humidity from the interior of a piano, as needed. I have one, but I fill it with very clean water.)

Never plant Grandpa Ott morning glories. Invasive!

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 04:37 PM

"filtered hot water does nothing for me"
Have you tried it?
I used to know a delightful elderly Scottish woman who couldn't drink tea or coffee for medical reasons. When with people who were taking tea she would ask for "silver tea" - hot water.
I tried it, and it really is much nicer than plain cold water, especially when served in a bone china cup.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Musket
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 04:12 PM

Never buy a video player from a man on the street.

Who is out of breath.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Bert
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 04:04 PM

Never close a self locking door without your keys IN YOUR HAND.

I stopped to pick up a wallet in the road once, It was a busy road and the contents had scattered. So I dodged in and out of the traffic and gathered all that I could find.

I called the owner and she came by to pick it up, and she was pissed at me for not getting everything.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: olddude
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 04:01 PM

Now where the hell is my keys I probably washed them again

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Amos
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 03:57 PM

Magnet on a string?

I once carried a manly little handbag around with my stuff in it and once left it on top of the car and drove onto the freeway and home. I got a call half an hour later from someone who lived only a quart-mile away from me, wishing to return the thing, which he had boldly stopped to pick up from the on-ramp. It was intact and I have never forgotten his act of human kindness.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 03:51 PM

... replace a CPU fan without simply removing it and letting it sit horizontal overnight. (You don't necessarily need to add any machine oil. Of course, after a second failure, that may be advised. I'll report on that if it happens.)

happycampergnu

P.S. SRS... I dunno what happened 'after that' but I know the young lady was rather distraught about her keys.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 03:43 PM

... place popping corn in the cupboard next to yellow split peas. The peas don't do well in a hot air popcorn popper.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 03:37 PM

I live in a city with many University and technical students-and school began yesterday. So, I have seen plenty of questionable transportation techniques on the streets recently-especially matresses being transpirted on the tops of vehicles.

When I was a student, I learned that many car roof racks are ornaments, and are not attached to very much. I recall that my mattress ended up in the forest beside the highway.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 03:11 PM

That is painful to read, Phil!

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 03:06 PM

I left a cittern on the roof of my car once. I drove 50 miles home before I realized it. An ad in the Chicago paper lost and found section, a $50 reward, and a $90 repair bill, I had it back. I think if it had been a guitar, I never would have seen it again. I figured someone opening the cloth case would not be likely to say, "oh gosh, an octave mandolin, just what I've always wanted." Never done anything like that again.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 02:40 PM

I can't read any more... too familiar.

(well, never done the letter box bit, but...)

I can add: Never start the coffee pot without adding the coffee.... filtered hot water does nothing for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 02:24 PM

And never put anything on the roof of the car - so many people drive off leaving important things like wallets and purses lying in the road.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 02:01 PM

Never dump the paper in the recycling bin while holding your keys, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 01:54 PM

Never put the keys on the car seat while you gather your things. Invariably you will forget them as you close and lock the door. Done that.

Subject: RE: BS: Never...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 01:42 PM

tsk tsk tsk - will they get your keys out for you without question, or do you have to fill out forms in triplicate to get them back?

Subject: BS: Never...
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 14 - 01:31 PM

... put a letter in a post box with your keys in your hand.