Talking about dropping stuff on feet ...

[lum]

A good friend and long-time builder was building forms for a concrete drain one lovely day. He had a framing hammer going quite fast on big nail after nail on a very hot California day. The brand new handle broke and the hammer head bounced up and broke his glasses and his nose. In an instant he picked up the hammer head and threw it as far as he could over the roof of the house he was building. Simultaneously, before it was out of sight, he remembered his pickup was on the other side of that house. And then he heard the sound of it hitting metal, then glass, then glass.

He walked around the house ... damming the blood from his nose with his head band ... to see the bad news. He saw the hammer head immediately. It was embedded in the windshield directly in front of the steering wheel. It got there by bouncing off his new tool box and through the glass of the pickup's rear window. The dent in the tool box was quite distinctive and jammed the lid.

Soon after he enrolled in an anger management class and did very well.

[cabinetman]

NAIL IN THE FENCE


There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.

His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost
his

temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.

Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the
number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those
nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all.

He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now
pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father
that all the nails
were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence He said,
"You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The
fence will never be the same.

When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.

You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many
times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. "

A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and
encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise
and they always want to open their hearts to us."
.

[Uncle Cracker]

So you are saying that perhaps I should not have beaten the snot out of my anger management therapist???

[Bruce Cohen]

One job I had used to continually piss me off so much, so instead of quitting or killing the boss, because the pay was incredible, I used to come home and punch the walls in my apartment. It was a great way to relieve stress and harden up my knuckles.

The down side was that when I moved out (2 years later), I ended up owing the landlord $2,500 in sheetrock repairs.

"What goes around, comes around".

Bruce

[cabinetman]

One job I had used to continually piss me off so much, so instead of quitting or killing the boss, because the pay was incredible, I used to come home and punch the walls in my apartment. It was a great way to relieve stress and harden up my knuckles.
Bruce

Much more exciting if the object punches back.
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