sundance-communications.com Forums Member Forums Phone Booth WHAT WAS YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT

I think mine was way back in the day..

I was working for a cable contractor at the time. We were just getting into doing turn key systems and our owner was too cheap to by pre-made amps. so I had to lug in a reel of 25 pair cable and make my own amp ends.

Well between an ahole coworker who would disappear all the time when the real work needed done and a customer chewing your ass because his phones were not up. My blood was a boiling. I got all the labor work done while my coworker stood around smoking and drinking coffee all day and decided to clean up and carry everything back out to the truck while he finished up programming.

I loaded a box full of amp ends extra blocks brackets and spools and everything else I could carry, set it on the full reel of 25 pr cable and proceeded to carry it out to the truck.

This building had 2 sets of doors all wood with a thin little window in the middle. I put my shoulder into the first door and barely got it open,so I spun around and kicked the other door open with my foot. I kicked it pretty hard knowing these doors were pretty damn heavy. well the door moved about 8 inches and came back, so I kicked it again and it flew open. When it opened, I realized what stopped on the first kick. There was a lady laying on the ground with what looked to be a golf ball sticking up off of her forehead.

She was standing on the other side of the door trying out her new key she had just received so she could come into work on Saturday.

This happened right about 4:59pm on Friday, so the next 30 minutes there were people coming out of the office building with her sitting there with a golf ball size knot sticking out of her forehead and every time someone came out and asked what happened, she would point to me.

I wanted to shrink up and die.

That's knot funny if you are on the receiving end. LOL

This goes back to my alarm days, I had to replace a Fire alarm control panel due to lightening at a large storage building of a local plant. The storage warehouse was appx. 200 yards across the parking lot from the main building. I had orginlaly installed the system and knew where all the devices were and how it was wired. So, I swapped out the control, let the office know so they wouldn't dispatch, told the two guys that worked in that building I was going to test and let it rip. Only let it blow for a second or two to test the horns. Called the office to verify communication while loading up the truck, and happened to notice about 40 guys running my direction from the main plant with ladders and fire extenguishers. Behind those 40 guys were the approximately 200 or so workers of the main plant grazing around in the parking lot. It seems someone had come behind me and wired the panel in the storage building and the main plant together and forgot to tell everyone else. They had a procedure to follow in the event of an alarm, which included shutting down the machines in the plant. After shutting em down it takes hours to bring em back up to temp, so a whole shift of employees got sent home that day. Worst part was, I had to drive through the crowd in order to get out of there. It is not common pratice to evacute two buildings especially when there is that much distace between them, but they had requested it because they had there own "Fire Response Teams". The tech is always the last to know. The team worked pretty good though . They sure did hustle across that parking lot.

Nothing beats the old classic..........

Getting on your knees to cut a flush mount and ripping the most private areas of your jeans.........

Ripping your jeans can't be as bad as having a big bowl of chili for lunch and ripping something else in a crowded office.

MOST embarassing? Wellllll------
Yeah, I had the jeans blow out (but I had on clean underwear) while up a pole accross the alley from the exit of the drive in bank on payday.
Yeah, the repairman aske for help splicing a temp cable. It was very cold and nasty. Left the van running. Splice the cable inside. Ooopsss --- It came in one door and out another. Of course he had brought his end in the wrong door -- not me.
Yeah, or the time the now "same-her" (IQ same-her shoe size)came on board --- high heels and all stomping around like a bull moose. The new switch tech? You got to be kidding. The lights are on but no one is home. The guys facing the door looked real strange --- kind of like fish out of water. Of course, me, with my back to the open door, had not heard her walk in carrying her shoes. OOOOps!

Any more? Sure, I love the taste of shoe polish. I've had my foot in my mouth so long I have to brush my toenails along with my teeth.

There are really too many to remember them all. I'll revisit more later.

Had to be 26 years ago. I was fresh out of climbling school and out on my own. I pulled up to a job to hang a drop and there was the local power compnay crew taking a break. I figured I would show him how to climb. I opened the back door, strapped on my hooks, slung my climbing belt around my waist(Low, gunslinger style) put on my hard hat and shades and walked over to the pole. I cecked just to make sure they were all watching, and then proceeded to gaff the pole. Only problem was my hooks are on backwards( gaffs outside). I will never forget that roar of laughter I heard as I climbed back in the truck,( hooks, belt, tools and all) and drove away

While doing a site-survey at a construction site in the dead of winter. They had a bunch of portable propane heaters all over the place. As I was looking at a floorplan, I backed up into one and sort of fell/sat on it. I burnt my biscuits real good. Everyone on the jobsite got a real good chuckle out of that one.