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The tale I am about to relate could have ended in disaster, but I will tell you up front I did survive and all my body parts are still attached.
The tale begins with me doing a minor home repair and using a table saw. I had rolled out my table saw into the driveway and was in to much hurry to make sure the saw stable and wheels locked. I had only one small cut to make; I needed a very slim piece of wood for my project. I made the cut and the slim piece of wood lay next to the blade jiggling around due to the saw not being stable; a very unsafe event. I stepped to the side of the saw to turn it off. At this point the saw started to roll forward causing the wood to bounce around more and all of a sudden the wood hit the turning blade kicking it back right into my privates.
Well the yell I gave out was heard buy two neighbors and my wife. The neighbors both female arrived before my wife. When they arrived I already had my pants down checking out how bad the damage was. Next to arrive was my wife seeing one of our neighbors kneeling down in front of me with my pants down with the other neighbor wearing only her bikini bottoms standing behind me with her arms wrapped around me. A little explanation here; neighbor No. 1 was a nurse and neighbor No. 2 was sunbathing in her back yard at the time.
A few minutes later next door husband drives up and sees this very odd scene; me with my pants down my wife a neighbor and his wife in bikini bottoms holding an ice pack on my privates. His response was to take a picture of us with his digital camera he was carrying. I had no lasting injury other than being very black and blue. What saved me from a very serious injury was a leather shop apron I always wear when in the workshop.
Of course they make sure I will never live that day down and to show every other neighbor who was not there the picture.
Moral of the story; take your time and be safe.
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