Hot take: Deep breathing exercises during a soot storm

I decided to try calming breaths while dealing with a particularly dusty chimney. Ended up inhaling a cloud of ash and coughed for ten minutes straight. What's the dumbest way you've hurt yourself on a job?

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the_parker2mo ago

My buddy thought he could catch a falling piece of drywall to save it from hitting the floor. He ended up throwing his back out so bad he was stuck on the couch for three days. The real kicker is the drywall shattered anyway when it landed on his foot. He learned the hard way that some things are just meant to fall.

wood.avery2mo ago

Watched my friend dive to save a big flat screen TV that was tipping over. He managed to grab it but then did this awkward stumble trying to keep his balance, and he just fell straight through a drywall wall like a cartoon character. @the_parker that’s the same energy as your buddy with the drywall. The TV was totally fine by the way, but we had to cut him out of the wall.

skyler6312mo ago

Watched a coworker try to brace a wobbly ladder by leaning a full sheet of drywall against it. The ladder slipped, he grabbed the drywall like a surfboard, and rode it straight into a stack of insulation rolls. He wasn't hurt, but we spent twenty minutes picking fiberglass out of his sweatshirt while he itched like crazy.