Today, I was helping my friend put up a wooden fence at his new house. I was holding the sections of fence up while he nailed them in with an air powered nail gun. The gun malfunctioned and fired twice putting the second nail through my hand and into the wood. We had to pry the nail out. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today I had a narrow escape with a nailgun that nailed my workboot to the floor but luckily missed my foot. After I calmed down and changed boots I returned to the nailgun, started working again and barely 30 seconds later I managed to nail my thumb to a piece of wood. Man, I'm bad at my job. FML
Today, I taught my friend how to use a staple gun. She taught me how to get staples out of my hand. FML
Today, I was at my friend's house. We were looking at her dad's guns, and I was explaining gun safety and how you should never put your finger on the trigger. I then shot a hole in the floor of her house. FML
Today, our 9 year-old son managed to shoot himself in the gut with my nail gun. According to my wife, this is completely my fault, because I ONLY kept it in my locked garage, ONLY secured in its box, ONLY completely disconnected from the power, ONLY on the highest shelf near the roof. FML
Today, I learned what a nail gun shooting my leg feels like. FML
Today, while trying to pull a nail out of some wood with a crowbar in my theatre class, my girlfriend, who was holding down the wood with her foot, thought it would be funny to move her foot and make me lose my balance. Instead, the crowbar flew up and struck me in the nuts. FML
Today, as I was pulling into my driveway, I hit my fence. The same fence that I had repaired last week because I had run into it. FML
Today, I now know how it feels to have a splinter of wood hammered a full inch underneath your fingernail. FML
Today, I was at my friends' farm and we decided that we wanted to go to their old treehouse. When we got down there, it turned out my friend Cat had forgotten her shoes. Being a gentleman, I lent her my sandals. I then climbed the treehouse, fell out, and got a nail through my foot. FML
Today, my friend thought it would be funny to use an electric sander on my arm during our construction class. FML
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nancyngo 0
I'm so sorry, that's extremely painful.
Iwannabetreo 11
Fuuck ... My hand hurts from reading this. D:
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Comments (122)
michaelscott69 0
i can just imagine the nail shooting through your skin, puncturing your vain, muscle, and nerves and going through your bone and pinning said hand to the wood.....well, at least you kniw how jesus felt
VolleyballSMASH 1
Don't pry it out yourself! Call an ambulance!! Let the professionals handle it, because honestly, you've proven you're not so good at the do it yourself stuff.
magnis 0
ouch X(
Zhu8 5
Sue the company.
ownedurmom 1
...I had a hard time reading this. But I hope your okay! :o
Coffeebang 17
Oh my ******* god ouch >
shaddol3lade 7
Actually, your friend malfunctioned. Those nail guns have a saftey system that only allows them to fire if they are pressed against something. He held the trigger down while it was against the wood still, causing it to fire twice.
ForeverFat 12
Ouch!
Jarl_the_Elite 27
My uncle had that happen to him. The nail was very close to major artery.
koolkanga 12
Ouch