HammerHumor

[avad]

ok...*chuckle*...I've got to stop this...but I can't.
Some might know I've got a thing for hammers. I mean, I have to, I hammer thousands of nails in my art. I've been using my father's hammer for years now (sentimental reasons) but now it's really falling apart...and since I'm worried about carpal tunnel, I've decided to finally invest in an Anti-Vibe, ergonomic sort of hammer. So I've been doing some research online, before laying out the 30 or 40 bucks.

Now,Just yesterday, at the Lumber yard, I was buying some wood stain because I'm making a frame for a 5 foot piece I'm almost finished with. On the top of the innocent looking little can of stain is a sticker that reads TO AVOID SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION soak soiled rags and waste immediately after use in a water-filled, closed metal container. I stopped. um. mentally going through my garage...plastic bucket, yes, coffee cans- but plastic lids..do I need a metal lid?....I started to worry...I imagined the garage exploding...B's old and muchloved car destroyed....shards flying.
I asked the clerk. And didn't get far...he didn't seem to see the visual of SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION that I did when reading the sticker...he kinda blew it off.
"Just let the stuff air out.Don't put it in anything enclosed." says he.
BUT....it says...
"Yeah," he says, taking another nanosecond glance at the sticker."Water will help...just don't close it.."
But...it says...
*sigh* I let it go.
So now I have this deadly weapon in my house.

OK,now to bring these two lil subjects together, you might understand why coming across THIS ARTICLE made my morning laughter release.
*still chuckling*

Comments

[sibyllam.livejournal.com]

I have visions of spontaneous combustion as well since Jenn has so many flamable photo chemicals around. Pretty much anything used in photography should be sold with a free fire extinguisher. And a gas mask.

But to date, no fires----uh, not from photo chemicals anyway. I did light the kitchen stove on fire by turning on the wrong burner. The house behind my parents burned down when I was 10 and rained hot ash all over us. And I did have my pick-up truck spontaneously combust in the parking lot of my work........

I think I'm beginning to see where my fear of fire has come from....

[avad.livejournal.com]

geez I'd sure have a fear as well!!!
I have a certain rational amount of fear of lightning...due to the fact of my house getting struck when I was eleven. Holy moly what that stuff can do!

[sibyllam.livejournal.com]

I have a fear but also a fascination with lightening. Unfortunately (or fortunately) there is VERY rarely any lightening around here. But I remember watching it on my Grandparents' farm in Oklahoma. It could be miles away, but because the land was so flat, you could still see it hit the ground (or a tree, house, etc.).

[avad.livejournal.com]

oh definitely. In Louisiana I used to go out on the screened porch and just watch for as long as I could (if it wasn't toooo windy). Here I feel pretty safe too...since it's a ranch house and far from the tallest thing around. I don't like being on the second floor of any 2-story house during a bad storm though...If my sister had not come downstairs when she did, she would've been toast.

[sibyllam.livejournal.com]

WOW! I've never come that close to lightening!