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[Loud Whispers]

Day of the shave, baldies war now

[Loud Whispers]

Was talking to one of my med friends whilst they were on the bus, when suddenly he starts asking some lady questions about blood pressure. Now he's involved in some medical emergency on the bus o_O

[TheBiggerFish]

They'll be fine, LW, they literally train to handle this stuff.

[martinuzz]

Especially if he can spot bloodpressure trouble on the fly, while riding the bus with you. Sounds like he's made the right choice of profession.

[Loud Whispers]

Especially if he can spot bloodpressure trouble on the fly, while riding the bus with you. Sounds like he's made the right choice of profession.

Was talking over the phone, so I'm in the dark on what's actually happening beyond there's something wrong over there

[Bumber]

My pockets are at the exact same height as the doorknobs in my house. Yet another attempt on my life today.

[TD1]

One does not simply walk through more doors.

[Eric Blank]

That happens to me all the goddamn time, too. And not just the doorknobs. My clothes get caught on all sorts of things.


As far as baldness goes, I am looking, but poor


More things to be legitimately terrified of: the weather. We've got roads covered in snow and slush and now freezing rain. My poor cars tires are practically bald, so I'm going down the highway at ~30 and still losing control on corners. I'll make it home about 11:30 tonight if at all @_@

[Steelmagic]

I played Resident Evil 7. I am terribly, terribly afraid of power tools like power drills. Or chainsaws. Especially chainsaws.

Spoiler: Spoiler of like 30 minutes in the game. (click to show/hide)

Basically once I heard Mia with a chainsaw I rapidly lost my cool, going from making jokes to "No, no, no! WAITWAITWAITWAIT!"

[George_Chickens]

As far as baldness goes, I am looking, but poor

If he can pull off looking fine and being bald, so can you! Channel the baldness of a handsome, handsome dictator.

[Sirus]

I ran into one of my personal work-related nightmares today: being forced to back my truck out into a busy street.

I had been sent to a customer to pick up a load. It's a customer I've never been to - always a fun prospect since you can never really be sure what their procedures are, or where the truck entrance to the property is, or sometimes even which side of the street to pay attention to. I found the place easily enough - a recycling center - and pulled onto the property.

Almost immediately, the employees there informed me that I had made an error. Due to the way their property is designed, a truck like mine cannot simply pull into the driveway and make their way to the loading area. Oh no. Trucks must instead park on the street, check in, and then back into their lot all the way to the loading area. Screwing this up was bad enough, but their lot was so compact that it was impossible to turn around once I had entered. I would have to back out, re-adjust myself on the street outside, and then enter the lot properly (aka backwards).

The street fronting the customer was one of the nasty sort of low-grade commercial areas: moderate traffic in both directions but not a lot of room for maneuvering. To make matters worse, the gate onto the property was narrow, the fence blocked 90% of my rear-facing view, and in order to get out I would end up blocking more than half the street. A couple of the employees went out to try and control traffic, but my severely impacted view meant that I couldn't see them much of the time and therefore could not read their directions. It didn't help when some vehicles ignored them and tried to get around me anyway.

Eventually I managed to get out, at which point I quickly parked on the shoulder, let the stopped traffic go, and then took my first opportunity to properly back in. I only had to block half of the road this time.

It turned out okay, but those were some of the most nerve-wracking minutes of my career so far.

[TheBiggerFish]

Er...At least you survived?

That sounds terrifying all right.

[Wolfhunter107]

Just for the sake of curiosity, how big of a truck were you driving there?

[smjjames]

Just for the sake of curiosity, how big of a truck were you driving there?

Given that Sirus here is a trucker, I'm assuming big, like those 18 wheelers or semi-trailers.

[Sirus]

Bingo. 18-wheeler, roughly 70 feet long and weighing a little under 20 tons empty.