Lightning struck my late father’s homemade CB radio antenna back in the early 90’s. It made the antenna explode, and fried around 3/4 of every electronic device in the house ☹️
Thankfully the refrigerator survived at least, and of course thankfully the house didn’t burn down.
If he had only properly grounded his antenna and CB radio…
Huh, I was told a story of my father in law having the same thing happen to him, but luckily for them it only burned the electronics that were plugged into the antenna, and one tv that was too close to a radio that also got screwed up. Never got to meet the man though, unfortunately.
Holy shit who doesn’t ground their fancy new lightning rod 😅
My late father was a bit weird and eccentric. He built his custom CB antenna around PVC plastic tubing. Yeah it worked, hell he could communicate around 300 miles radius from the home base.
It worked, until it stopped working…
We ended up scavenging as many pieces of the PVC as we could, to reassemble it as a superglue/jigsaw puzzle haha!
My Dad fell down the stairs naked and landed in my mom’s sisters special spot.
Woopsie, happens even to the best of us. Can’t do much about 🤷
My Dad fell down the stairs naked and landed in my mom’s sisters special spot.
“What are you doing, bro-in-law?”
I used a convection toaster oven in the kitchen.
That fried the circuits of 1/3 of the house. Some amateur electrician tied in several new circuits into the same kitchen breaker. They used undergauged wire on top of it.
Cost us $6k to fix and that was a hell of a deal from some Covid - unemployed union electricians. They put in 3 breakers where there was one before. The electrician had a hell of a time tracking where all the lines came from. That included a 3ft fireball shooter ng out of the wall because a line was love when it shouldn’t have been.
Getting cats. Well, not the home itself, but everything in it.
Did you get tigers, or what?
They did say, “Cats” (plural). Which begs the question: How many average house cats = 1 average tiger?
By mass, around 50 or so.
How many duck-sized horses equal one standard horse?
Trusting the home inspector that said the roof wouldn’t need to be replaced for at least another couple years.
Mine too! There’s slight water damage to the bottom kitchen cabinets and wooden floors, that we can for too fix, as water slowly leaked down the walls, but at least we got new roof, windows and doors.
My daughter didn’t check the toilet after she flushed it right before bed. It was in a back bedroom that nobody else really goes to. It ended up flooding overnight and I didn’t discover it til the next morning, when I found my kitchen flooding from the ceiling. It apparently wasn’t from poop though as I didn’t see any fecal matter around (unless it was in the ceiling that got torn out). Whole kitchen ceiling got torn out, along with the floor of the bathroom. Not a huge amount of damage, but the most the house has sustained… so far.
My daughter didn’t check the toilet after she flushed it
Who does?
Germans
TIL I’m German. I just always doublecheck everything has gone down, just a listen for something not right, a quick glance. It’s not like I’m hovering over the bowl like, “Yes, my little fecal babies, your time with me may be at an end, but your journey in this world has only just begun…” I mean, who does that? Not this well-adjusted person.
They are referring to the meme about old German toilets having an ‘inspection shelf’ (Flachspüler)
Yes, but also I do the exact same thing as that guy, except I don’t get overly poetic while I say goodbye to my butt lumps
🎵 My lumps, my lumps! 🎶
So what happened? How did the toilet (?) flood?
Still no idea, she could’ve put a paper towel or something in there or just used too much toilet paper. This was a month or two ago, so not likely we’ll ever know.
If only there was some way to communicate with her
wait, so it was both clogged and had a stuck valve? talk about being unlucky.
Frozen pipe burst over my bedroom as a kid. I don’t even know how much it cost to repair and to replace everything that was ruined.
Not damage but the most entertaining, terrifying, and educational event - I made a mango soda, fermented it with some ginger beer and it was lazy getting fizzy so I bottled, refrigerated and promptly forgot about it. Found it a few weeks later and figured since it wasn’t fizzy ok to open.
Mango soda on the floor, walls, ceiling of three adjacent rooms. It exploded up but did not break the glass bottle. The second one I opened outside facing away from me and got to taste the small amount that remained in the bottle - probably the best drink I have ever made, all lost due to my negligence.
Not immediately throwing my clothes in a wash and showering when I got home like usual. That small mistake resulted in a months long battle with bedbugs. Never again.
Tesla hired the lowest bidder from a different county to do my roof for $8k
3 years later I’ve got a few quotes all over $20k each to redo their bad work and $8k in repairs. They are evaluating their options.
