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Offline snarf

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By the grace of God
« on: July 05, 2012, 08:00:27 AM »
My children get careless and throw aerosol cans (hairspray) in the garbage. I often catch them before I burn. I have yelled, I have scolded. Now we are going to have two weeks of absolutely NO hairspray in our house.  That means no spray bottles nut'n zip zero.  I had my own fireworks show over the 4th.  A can ended up in the burn pile; a can cooked off and I almost got the loosing end of the deal.  Thank Christ I was wearing my sun glasses.  When the can cooked off a shard from the can hit my glasses instantly melting to the lens,
You can bet I was just a tad over being pissed off.

 
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2012, 09:43:01 AM »
I'm glad that you didn't get hurt Snarf!

You burn your trash, plastics too?   :o
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2012, 10:30:23 AM »
Quote from: Conrad on July 05, 2012, 09:43:01 AM
I'm glad that you didn't get hurt Snarf!

You burn your trash, plastics too?   :o
Oh no, plastics get recycled. I dont completely hate mother earth
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2012, 10:55:34 AM »
Geez!
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2012, 10:59:03 AM »
Glad you didn't lose the eye.  That's a wicked looking piece of shrapnel.  I've had a couple of close calls like that while wearing glasses of some form or another and after vision loss/recovery with the cataract thing I do almost every thing with some kind of eye protection. 

FYI in my neighborhood (way out in the thulies) it's a $1,000 fine for garbage burning.
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2012, 11:09:36 AM »
Glad you are ok, eyes are something you don't mess with. Looks like you need to write a testamonial to that eyeglass company with pics telling them how well they worked saving your vision, are they marketed as safety glasses or just straight sunglasses? I'd buy a few more pair.
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2012, 11:38:20 AM »
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2012, 12:47:00 PM »
Glad that wasn't worse, Snarf.  I remember burning our trash when I was a kid, and I would dig those out specifically so I could suspend them over the fire until they exploded.
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2012, 01:41:11 PM »
Yes they are Z87+ approved safety glasses.  I wont wear normal safety glasses after I saw the results of rock hitting $5 sunglasses. The lenses just shatter and all the fragments end up in your eye. Good friend of mine lost his eye that way. Out in the sticks of Iowa we can still burn.  I try not to as much as possible; it was a "company is coming over can you get rid of this for me" kinda thing
I think I might have to send an email to they company that makes them, maybe I can get a few freebies 8)
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2012, 01:50:38 PM »
When I was a kid, one of my jobs was to burn the trash.  After an aerosol can shot out of the fire just over my head, I made it a regular practice to sort through the trash carefully for aerosol can.  Then I carefully sprayed them until fully depressurized, then I poked several holes in them before tossing them back in the burn barrell.  Even as a kid, I preferred to be thorough when my life was on the line.  :)

Glad you're okay.  Glad you're grateful.
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2012, 05:45:43 PM »
 :o  Burning garbage??
 
They won't even allow me to park our RV at our house for more than 24 hours... CC&R's...  :-\
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2012, 06:48:16 PM »
Glad you dodged another flying object.. ie: Buzzard..
It's been said that things happen in three's, so be on the lookout,
or we might have to start calling you Snake..

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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #12 on: July 06, 2012, 04:32:10 AM »
Quote from: Walker18 on July 05, 2012, 06:48:16 PM
Glad you dodged another flying object.. ie: Buzzard..
It's been said that things happen in three's, so be on the lookout,
or we might have to start calling you Snake..



Can we call him 'ole one eye' instead?
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2012, 04:54:32 AM »
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #14 on: July 06, 2012, 05:02:20 AM »
Aye
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2012, 05:23:58 AM »
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2012, 08:44:08 AM »
Quote from: gPink on July 06, 2012, 05:23:58 AM
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OHHHHHH; the all knowing mystical one eye.
Hey I kinda like the ring of that.  If it happens again that what ya'll can call me  ;)
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2012, 10:47:08 AM »
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #18 on: July 06, 2012, 05:27:06 PM »
Some time back, over a year ago, I was checking out my stuff at Safeway.  A guy wearing an eye patch walked past, and the little twinkie gal (maybe 16 years old or so) who was bagging groceries said something like, “That guy has a cool pirate patch.”  The checker lady, about my age (middle aged), stared at the twinkie and said, “Honey, that’s not a pirate patch.  He wears that because he’s only got one eye.”  The twinkie says, “Eeewwww, why would he do that?”
Simply astounding.
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Re: By the grace of God
« Reply #19 on: July 06, 2012, 05:47:32 PM »
Oh CRAP! Glad you're ok! I'd be giving up the hairspray big time!

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