Kinda both funny and scary thread...
I was experimenting with making/renewing lead alloy bearings several years ago. Some pounds of like 1060° F molten metal, I had my fingers very near the the top of it while fluxing and removing the mess, when the last blocks of added alloy colapsed while melting below the surface. This created a wave which surrounded my three middle fingers up to second knuckle. Haven´t ever seen or heard someting like that-and I cast my bullets from preschool age... OK, never mind the burned fingers, I started later to pour the bearing and I see the f*** shimmering in the funell-as I cursed upon getting my fingers burned, there must have been a little spit left there. Took the head as far as I could just in time to be missed by the shower almost entirely, but not all-just after finishing the pour, I removed nearly perfect cast of my lips from my face. Went to school and work the next day. Must say, my ex was not that much keen about lost feel in my lips and fingers... The lips got OK after nine months, the fingers took six years. Never been to docs with that.
Still I can take out the meat from a pan or a boiling pot from the fire barehanded, as I do at times...
The widowmaker story, I posted it somewhere here. I was with a brushcutter clearing some doghaired understory mess, upt to 3" dia and 15-27 ft tall. You couldn´t extend your hand right in front of you at places there, if ya didn´t make room with the brushsaw... It was after a good hailstorm, no leaves left on the trees, just knee high on the ground, a lot of 1" branches broken on the ground etc. Helluva mess. I heard "crack" above me and pushed myself to the side as much as I could, so I got struck by about 10 pound piece of pine limb, running for me from some 55´ height. Got struck into helmet, a bit left from the middle and above the ear. The helmet was OK, so were the earmuffs, so I went on for next 4 hours. Brushcutting, yanking 250# pieces of underbrush around, pulling them out and creating a nice 12´high pile... When I started to need three stops a hour with having almost a nap with my legs above me, to drink a little six times an hour, I called it a day, hanged some 140# of equipment onto me all over the shoulders and neck, walked with it about a mile to a house where it was stored and went home and later that day to docs. After an x-ray, I was sent home on my own with a neck supporting collar, with a word that I had a bit sprained neck, but nothing serious. After sleeping almost whole day, I was back (again, on my own, walked there), that this is not normal for me. A magnetic resonantion revealed displaced vertebrates by 1/4" in my neck and upper thorax, turned up to 10° or so away from position, brutal bruising of everything in the neck, as it got slammed down to the right, while I had my head somewhere in my right armpit for a moment. Headless rider for a second... Spend some time in the hospital, lost the mimics for several days, still have sometimes trouble with my right hand since then. I had to teach it some moves again-I couldn´t match the cuts in the beginning... The docs were fairly surprised how the hell I´m not dead...
I had a lesbian couple that wanted me to be their baby daddy. They offered that I could have both of them if that I wanted, just one of them was going to get pregnant. Both nice girls, really good looking for lesbians, good jobs with great retirement and bennies, but I said no. No doubt they would have loved the kid and taken great care of it, but the whole idea felt weird and I could see nothing but years of drama coming from that.
...and I ain't that tough.
I have almost exactly the same story. Those girls were more Bi to straight, just found for themselves easier living with a woman without the annoyances we men sometimes give around for free. They both wanted a kid, they were pretty nice and sexy girls... But I must admit that I kinda lost my balls upon the proposal and met them just once and incidentaly since then...
Not sure if this makes me any tough, but gives me a good ticket to be sore in later years, that´s for sure.
