[elky] Re: OT: two bottles, near disaster

  • From: "Rick Draganowski" <dragan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:14:06 -0800

Converted a door into a window? I cannot seem to get my mind around this. Was 
it a trap? Was it in a regular walkway?

I wish you had sued their butts off.

Rick Draganowski

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ray Buck 
  To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:26 AM
  Subject: [elky] Re: OT: two bottles, near disaster


  "He also walked in to a closed glass door once..."

  Oh, hell..doesn't everybody do that?  They don't?  Hmmm.  Here's the story:  
About 15 years ago, when I worked for a hospital management company in a 
downtown high-rise, I had to park in a terrace about a block away, walk that 
block, then take a "tunnel" that went under Salt Lake City's main street (State 
Street...not Main Street, a block over...it's not the main street...Jim can 
verify this) and up into the high-rise building to get on the elevator to the 
floor I worked on.

  One summer day as I walked from the tunnel to the building, I saw that they 
were replacing some of the glass door panels.  They had the new ones marked 
with a red "X" of tape...I spose to indicate that they were new...I dunno.  
Anyway, I walked through one of the doors marked with an "X" (I opened it 
first) and went on to work.  

  At lunch, my wife had suggested that she pick me up and we go to a nearby 
restaurant which seemed like a pretty good idea.  I headed down to the lobby 
and when I saw her pull up, I put my sunglasses on, went to the door I'd 
entered thru in the morning (which had had the "X" removed) and...WHAM!  
Although I'd put my hand out to open the door as usual, I didn't realize that 
they'd converted it from a door to a full-length window before removing the 
tape.  It didn't open; it knocked me on my ass.  My head hit the glass hard 
enough to knock my shades into my temple, open a cut and destroy my "cheap 
sunglasses" (I was doing my ZZ Top thing at the time with long hair and beard) 
and put me on the ground.  

  If you find yourself laughing about that, don't sweat it...I think it's 
pretty funny, myself.  Anyway, when I got up, I wasn't really worried about the 
shades, nor the bleeding temple, nor the dirt on my clothes from the fall.  I 
was more concerned with looking around to see in anyone had witnessed me doing 
such a dumb-ass thing.  Pride had been injured far more than person.  I guess I 
was lucky that day because there wasn't a crowd of people to laugh at what the 
long-haired goofball had done...or even worse, rush over to keep me from 
getting up while they called paramedics or something like that.  Nobody seemed 
to notice...or if they did, they knew me and just considered the source.  :)

  The cut wasn't serious, I had a spare pair of shades and my clothes were 
washable, so all factors considered, it wasn't a big deal.  But the reaction of 
injured pride bothered me quite a bit.  Since then I've worked on not taking 
myself so seriously and laughing at my screwball antics.  I think I'm a little 
better at it.

  I spose I could have sued or something....but it didn't seem worth it at the 
time...or now, although I don't have a lot of love left for that company.

  r


  On 11/11/2010 5:24 PM, Chris Lindh wrote: 
    Growing up my stepfather handed my mother a bottle and said "put this in my 
eye"... after she did he screamed... he'd handed her ear drops.

    DOH!

    He also walked in to a closed glass door once...

    You didn't dare laugh when things like this happened...



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