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Metric... LOL!
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
My old journeyman would agree.
And if he didn't know what a button did he would simply press it anyway while saying, "I wonder what this does...?".
I used to work for a guy, when I'd ask what that part of a car did, he'd say take it off and go for a drive....
In that case, whatever you do, stay away from Irish built airplanes. Their ugliness is usually sufficient for that but stay away.
Do Irish built airplanes have an ignition lockout to blow into?
Saskatchewan-ites probably can earn a DUI flying
Two-fer
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
Going off into another topic...
Dumb-a** across the street had a "blow-before-you-go" installed in his car due to a DUI. Apparently, one fine morning a neighbor witnessed a dumb-a** friend of the DUI dumb-a** pull up in his car, park, go into the car equipped with the "blow-before-you-go", blow into it, start it, get back into his own car, and drive away. Now the dumb-a** with the DUI was able to get in and drive away without blowing. Based on the witness neighbor's story it's hard not to assume the dumb-a** neighbor with the DUI had been drinking at the time.😡 I don't think accidentally swallowing his mouthwash was the motivation.
Elektrishun
Ultra Member
Very common around here at the local hospitals and healthcare centres. Years ago they started using dispensers that could not easily be broken into. People trying to break into those dispensers resulted in a lot of wall damage and repairs.
DPittman
Ultra Member
I wonder if those folks ever have to worry about a sore throat or bad breath?
BMW Rider
Ultra Member
Just picked up a bottle of rubbing alcohol the other day, Had a heck of a time trying to find it in the drug store and finally asked for help. Turned out they only keep it behind the pharmacy counter now.
Used to attend to a fellow who had progressed up to drinking lacquer thinner. We'd get called to him passed out somewhere. Can't imagine he lived too much longer doing that. Some pretty sad individuals out there.
DPittman
Ultra Member
Yes it is sad. While I try to use humour regarding the subject, I do realize it is a real problem and I sympathize with those that deal with it either personally, professionally or with close ones.
When Linda worked at Shopper's Drugmart downtown they kept it behind the counter. Where she is now they do not because they don't have the same type of customers. Not that she doesn't dispense methadone for addicts and deal with disturbed people. But less so now in a smaller quieter more rural pharmacy.
The stories I could tell....
And now just the other day I caught a guy with a bong in his pickup, which is legal-ish, but do you want to work next to him?
I prefer the drunks, I know how to work with drunks
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BMW Rider
Ultra Member
While humour might seem cruel and callous and misunderstood by those outside, it helps one to avoid spiraling down into the same mental state as those poor individuals. I used a lot of humour in 38 years of firefighting and managed to escape relatively intact.
Yes.....
My middle son is a fireman. He has described various tragedies he has had to deal with in enough detail to send a normal person into shock just listening. I don't know how he has managed to deal with it in person and still keep going. He tells me that humour has been a key factor. That and talking about it with colleagues.
They don't pay firemen enough...
Grizzly Adams
Active Member
This has to be the ultimate stupidity in vehicle design. Just got back from Vancouver Island where i drove a 2026 VW TAOS. Totally touch tone and technically very sophisticated. Getting used to the car, driving down one of those narrow, twisting and very busy highways, I tried to adjust the volume on my radio. Next thing I know I'm talking to the Emergency services operator, without a phone connection yet ? She was very understanding and I gather it happens fairly often, but one would think an emergency call would be designed to demand some degree of effort, my spot satellite certainly does.
My watch did that once. We had company one evening. My phone was at the other end of the room. Suddenly I got a call from the 911 people asking if I was alright. And lots of other questions to verify I wasn't being coerced. Seems a certain movement of my arm told my watch I was in trouble.
Needless to say we figured out how it was doing that and disabled that given I was probably describing something with emphasis and not in trouble.
I've noted before I was on my small town FD as a volunteer, for about 7 years. To this day 2 events still...haunt?... me. One was a messy collision, the other was a death a week after we gave him an ambulance ride to Lethbridge. Just couldn't reconcile that one.