Failure to 'engage the brain'

Halitosis · 3 Aug 2015

Wiring a plug at the end of a long day, I thought I'd just test it worked before screwing the back on. Of course its the back-plate that pushes the pins into the socket, so having left my brains elsewhere, I used my thumbs to first push in the earth and then the live and neutral.
Actually went clear across a bed and landed on the floor the other side, rueing my stupidity throughout the flight.

gregers · 3 Aug 2015

now i started laffing before i even got to the end of your yarn,

glad your ok m8,
to make you feel better,years ago i was installing a door frame they all had to be exact to a datum,so no screed etc was there,was standing on a trestle banging this door frame up missed and took a full smack in the middle of my forehead.m8 next to me started crying in laughter,I was crying in pain.

you know its goner happen but you still do it anyways.....

Brigadier · 4 Aug 2015

Don't tell me that it was for the telly mounted at the end of your bathtub

eveares · 28 Aug 2015

Count your self lucky; what were you even thinking of plugging the plug in without the back on!

Also hope you have used the correct fuse ratting in the plug.

Nige F · 1 Sep 2015

Never mind the cover on or off - why was the switch socket ON ?

eveares · 1 Sep 2015

Nige F said:
why was the switch socket ON

Because he failed to engage his brain if the title is anything to go by. Maybe it was an unswitched socket?

Halitosis · 7 Sep 2015

Yes it was an unswitched socket - still no excuse though. Nearly a candidate for a Darwin Award for voluntarily thinning the human gene pool: http://www.darwinawards.com/

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