Silly Mistakes

[TygerLili]

Just thought I'd share the dumb thing I did today and give you all a laugh.

I have to do the "finger-stick" test on patients at work to check whether they are anemic. This is the first day that I have been doing them without supervision. The lancets that we used in class to puncture the capillaries had a hole in one end, and a button at the other end to push for the blade to come through and make the puncture. The ones in this site have a large hole on one end for the blade to come through, a small hole in the other end, and the button in the middle, so unless you look carefully what size the hole on top is, it's easy to have the lancet upside down.

Today I was performing this procedure on a woman, and she said "Wow, that didn't hurt at all!" I tried to milk the site, and no blood came out. Then I realized there was blood on my glove. You guessed it, I had my finger on the top of the lancet, had the lancet upside down, and punctured my own finger instead. I had to bandage myself before I could try to work with her again. Doh! At least I gave the MAs a good laugh.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

showing up

[Homicidalheathen]

I spilled pop all over someone once, she was soaked.

Oh and I over flowed the coffee

[Simon Bar Sinister]

*bump*

come on - we won't tell!

[bean]

I forgot how to us the fax machine one day, and I use the damn thing all the time. I had to ask someone how to use it.

[jynxxxedangel]

I singed my bangs, while lighting a saganaki, once.

I call it the "Opa-Oops" incident.

Edited June 13, 2009 by jynxxxedangel

[Invictus]

Not starting on a project until late in the day, and accidentally working until dawn. Forgetting to start the clock that keeps track of my billable time. I hate having to go back and try to figure that out.

[angry_darkness]

One time I installed a wrong engine in a car, so i had to pull it out and put the correct one in.

[Head Wreck]

detonated a 50mml bottle of coke.

it soaked half the store in coke and all that was left in the bottle was less than a fith of the original content.

sportswater capt on coke bottles take a lot more shaking than expected but they do blow

[jynxxxedangel]

Years ago, I led a gent (one of my fave and best customers at the time) away from the show bar, into the VIP area of a mens' club. As many of you know, those places can be quite dark. I should also mention that I am night-blind. Well, I gestured for him to have a seat on one of the divans. He sat for a brief moment, and then jumped up, like he'd sat on a pin!

It turns out, someone had fucking PUKED there. I was SO embarrassed. It's really funny now, but it sure wasn't back then!

A certain incident at CC a few months ago reminded me of this..

[candyman]

I turned the wrong pressure hose on at the shop and it whipped everywhere spraying the inside of my bosses truck with water and busting a hole in a garage door.

At another job I forgot to lower the blades on the forklift when I went to get a load of 7-up...and I liked to slam that blades against the wall too...but it was the coolest fountian I had ever seen.