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@Bone Head , since you started by sharing a personal funny story... Let me share mine...
I knew that I should not have my watch when working with the milling machine or the lathe... But sometimes, because I am doing stuff in between breaks from work, I would forget to take it off... Well, this past weekend, work was not an excuse, but I still managed to go into the garage to work on the vise and forgot to take it off...
Now I really know why I must take the watch off... besides the obvious reasons, for example, the watch getting caught in the work piece or the machine... There is the situation where sharp chips will get in the space between the watch band and your skin...
And then I needed to go to the bathroom... and turns out it is not #1 but #2... so there I am sitting on the throne... looking at my watch with all the razor sharp chips... I remove, what I think, are all of them...without realizing that a few more razor-sharp one have fallen inside my underwear...
So I am done, wash my hands and head out... since right now everything is in the garage, I see my motorcycle and I just have an urge to take a ride around the neighborhood... Get back and my wife is asking me why I have blood all over the pants... I don't know... I panic and head to the ER thinking the worst...
They are about to take me in for an MRI and ask me to take off my watch as no metals can be inside... and then I remembered...
So yeah, now I will never forget to take off my watch before going into the garage...
I knew that I should not have my watch when working with the milling machine or the lathe... But sometimes, because I am doing stuff in between breaks from work, I would forget to take it off... Well, this past weekend, work was not an excuse, but I still managed to go into the garage to work on the vise and forgot to take it off...
Now I really know why I must take the watch off... besides the obvious reasons, for example, the watch getting caught in the work piece or the machine... There is the situation where sharp chips will get in the space between the watch band and your skin...
And then I needed to go to the bathroom... and turns out it is not #1 but #2... so there I am sitting on the throne... looking at my watch with all the razor sharp chips... I remove, what I think, are all of them...without realizing that a few more razor-sharp one have fallen inside my underwear...
So I am done, wash my hands and head out... since right now everything is in the garage, I see my motorcycle and I just have an urge to take a ride around the neighborhood... Get back and my wife is asking me why I have blood all over the pants... I don't know... I panic and head to the ER thinking the worst...
They are about to take me in for an MRI and ask me to take off my watch as no metals can be inside... and then I remembered...
So yeah, now I will never forget to take off my watch before going into the garage...
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