Evil Gopher
11-03-2007, 05:55 PM
Last year I was working apartment maintenance. One of the big jobs was changing out flood light bulbs on the outside wall, near the top of the 2 story apartment buildings. To do this I used an extension ladder, put the new bulb inside my tucked in shirt, my power screwdriver in my pocket or were ever I stuck it and while my supervisor held the ladder I would climb up...open up the floodlight glass panel, replace the bulb and screw in the 2 screws holding the glass closed. Some times the screws were striped out or would fall out...so Had to hold the glass closed with my head so I could use both hands to get the screws set in place.
My tool of choice at the time was a DeWalt 7.2v screwdriver. Whelp, one day I was having a hard time with a light...it had come lose, and some other stuff. Sooo my fat clumsy arse is 20ft up on this ladder wrestling with this light and losing, soo I try to tuck the DeWalt into my pocket and cant get it in for some reason, so do the gangster thing and tuck it into the front of my pants like u see gangsters do on TV with a gun.
Sooo I got this light balanced with my hands and face, 20ft off the ground, and somehow the Dewalt shifted. The exposed trigger got pressed by my pants or something, and the flat screwdriver bit starts turning. luckily for me it catches my underwear, like a paddle and begins twisting my underwear around the bit....getting rather tight in my happy place to say the least, and of course knowing I got a power tool running in my shorts is a little scary, especially since I cant do much about it. Luckily for me the clutch finally begins doing the click click thing, I get the light stable and climb down the ladder....and fix the power tool in my happy place problem :)
My tool of choice at the time was a DeWalt 7.2v screwdriver. Whelp, one day I was having a hard time with a light...it had come lose, and some other stuff. Sooo my fat clumsy arse is 20ft up on this ladder wrestling with this light and losing, soo I try to tuck the DeWalt into my pocket and cant get it in for some reason, so do the gangster thing and tuck it into the front of my pants like u see gangsters do on TV with a gun.
Sooo I got this light balanced with my hands and face, 20ft off the ground, and somehow the Dewalt shifted. The exposed trigger got pressed by my pants or something, and the flat screwdriver bit starts turning. luckily for me it catches my underwear, like a paddle and begins twisting my underwear around the bit....getting rather tight in my happy place to say the least, and of course knowing I got a power tool running in my shorts is a little scary, especially since I cant do much about it. Luckily for me the clutch finally begins doing the click click thing, I get the light stable and climb down the ladder....and fix the power tool in my happy place problem :)