"You're doing it wrong"Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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Feelin very confident after changing a foglight in my car. (length)So when my mechanic came down to look at my wifes car to see what needed to be done for the NCT (Irish MOT) I looked him in the eye and said "I will fix the exhaust just point out the relevant pieces and I shall replace them myself". My mechanic had seen me do some fuckwitted things in my life so being all responsible said "alright". Several pieces of exhaust were pointed out (all under car). All I had to do was run my hand from beginning to end to find the leak. Simples.
So I hoisted the car onto two very large pieces of wood and put stoppers under the tyres to stop it rolling.
Confident I slide under the car. Cue confidence gone, shamefully determination stuck around. I hesitantly ask my brother to start the car and it shudders to life. Undeterred I went to put my hand into the engine to find were the exhaust started. After about three minutes I realised I knew nothing about car engines, had my hand in a running engine with many sharp dangerous moving parts and was under a running car weighing over a ton supported by two planks. Facepalm and evacuate, ring mechanic to get him to fix car.
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dazbrilliantwhites has been meaning to change this..., Tue 20 Jul 2010, 16:19,
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I was really expectingmore burnt hands in this story
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