How often do you laugh at yourself
How often do you laugh at yourself? I consider myself an intelligent woman, but I can do some pretty silly things, I am just glad that I can laugh at myself. I have some really good friends that use to call me just to get a good laugh.
I have been known to try and tackle jobs that I have never done before and somehow manage to get the job done but it might not have been the best way to get it done.
When I started driving, before I was allowed to take the car out by myself, after I have gotten my drivers license, I had to be shown how to take a tire off and put one back on. My father said that this was for my own benefit, just in case of emergencies. But I always called him or my brother anyway when I needed help. I was living out of state and decided that I needed an oil change, so I went to the store and bought the oil which was all I thought you needed at the time. (I didn’t realize that you also needed a new oil & air filter) I really though I was doing something, I put on my overalls, pulled the car up on the curb (I didn’t have a jack) got under the car with a bucket, unscrewed the bolt to the oil pain and oil went everywhere. Have you ever tried to move really fast in a very confined space, Its not very easy to do. When I calmed down, I heard my neighbor laughing really loud on his front porch so I crawled out from under the car to see what was so funny and he laughed even louder. I walked over to him and he had me look in a mirror and we both laughed until we cried. I was covered in oil from head to toe. He told me that when he saw what I was going to do he just couldn’t contain himself, he put a chair on his front porch and had to watch the show, I had such a look of determination on my face. And when he saw the oil running down the street he knew that I missed the bucket and droped the bolt. I lived there for two years and never had to do my own oil change again, he always volunteered to do it for me and I never said no!
I remember moving once and I had just gotten a brand new waterbed, I had never had one before and I was looking forward to a first time experience! You just fill it up with water and plug in the heater, Right? That would be true with just about anybody else but me. I set it up and screwed on the water hose to start the filling up process. I was really tired from moving, so I laid down on the floor in the next room. What a big mistake! I fell asleep for about 2 hours, I woke up with the sound of running water coming out of the next room. I went running in the next room and there was a water fall shooting out of where the hose was connected. My waterbed poped up and looked like a fresh baked loaf of bread. I disconnected the hose from the faucet and let it start draining, while I went to a rental shop to get a wet vac to save the carpet. When I got back the bed was about normal, so I started on the carpet, I was working furiouly trying to soak up the water from the carpet when the wet vac started shooting out sparks. Now I had sparks flying in a room with a waterbed that was made of rubber. Not a very good combination. Not to mention I was standing in water using electricity, electricution did cross my mind and it was not in my cards. I took the wet vac back to the rental store expained what happened, and the guy behind the counter started laughing so hard he fell down. Then he told me that the last time that wet vac was rented the same thing happened so he didn’t charge me for the rental. He said that the laugh covered the cost.
I would like to say that I do learn from my mistakes, but I am afraid I do have some repeats. This only makes me laugh at myself more
Jan Giza