posted on January 18, 2001 10:27:48 PM
While reading the posts this evening, I fell out of my chair...the screws came undone...let's practice safe surfing here folks, tighten up those screws on your chair...or you'll end up on the floor, like me...just a little humor, it's late, I should REALLY be in bed by now
Kaffro
posted on January 18, 2001 11:11:16 PM
I fell out my chair recently. We got a new (second hand) office chair at Goodwill, to cushion my rear while doing all this eBay stuff.
It's a big chair, I leaned over to pick something up off the floor and went tumbling ass over teakettle! Ouch! EBay can be hazardous to your health!
I hope more people contribute to this thread. It's important. At least to those of us who have fallen out of our chairs.
posted on January 19, 2001 12:23:11 AM
We must also remember to watch your food-stuffs when at the computer. Consuming and Surfing can cause dire consequences to those who do not heed my warning.
For instance, the following situations may occur:
*Orange keys from Cheeto- (or the like) fingers
*Hand-Stuck-to-Mouse syndrome while attempting to partake in any sticky finger-food, such as Cotton Candy
*Unknown-Substance-Syndrome ("what the heck are all these crumbs in my keyboard?", etc).
Also be sure to stay away from anything resembling offensive matter (i.e., chocolate) while reading repulsive eMails sent by ill-humored friends.
The worst thing to have at your desk while surfing? Drinks. In cases of sudden uncontrollable laughter, liquids tend to go spewing onto the monitor, causing a momentary viewing incapability, a horrifying concept to most web surfers.
The following foods have been deemed safe for web-geeks:
*Raw Carrots, Celery, etc. (Note: Raw Peas are not included in "etc".
*Unsalted sunflower seeds (sans shell)
*Unsalted, unbuttered popcorn
*Peanuts
*M&Ms
*Dried fruit
Thank you for taking the time to read this. If just one person is Saved, my time has been well (mis)spent.
Edited to repair jumbled HTML
[ edited by ExtremeEbay on Jan 19, 2001 12:24 AM ]
posted on January 19, 2001 12:23:44 AM
So, you had a few screws loose, eh? Imagine if you had to go to the hospital, it would pretty emabarrasing to tell them what happened. Worst of all, no worker's compensation, one of the drawbacks of working at home, you have to be careful not fall out of your chair.
If you really hurt yourseld, you could yell out (in the immortal words of that 90 year old lady on the LifeCall commercial 5 or 10 years ago)....
posted on January 19, 2001 04:19:01 AM
The hazards of ebay! I fell down the stairs the other day when I went to get something out of the ebay dungeon. That's what I get for listing everything I had at the same time! Never again............
posted on January 19, 2001 04:25:25 AM
LMAO....can't believe this thread. About two weeks ago, I did the old body stretch thing in my puter chair and the chair decided to go straight on back to the floor with me in it....problem is that I caught myself looking around to see if anybody saw it (ummmmm...I am by myself here!) Can't remember being embarrassed all by myself before lol.
posted on January 19, 2001 04:33:38 AM
My cat woke up, stretched, and fell off the end of the desk. Being a cat, she pretended that was what she meant to do all along.
posted on January 19, 2001 05:56:58 AM
I was getting stuff, to list, out of my storage shed and turned to leave when I promptly banged my head on the garage door. OUCH!
posted on January 19, 2001 06:42:54 AM
December3....I am having massive stomach pains from laughing at your post! I have 3 cats and have seen things like that happen, but your - "she pretended that was what she meant to do all along." really got me going! Thanx for the Friday morning laugh!
posted on January 19, 2001 07:33:45 AM
Reminds me of last year. I was too mortified to go to the doctor when I broke my toe because I just couldn't bring myself to explain that I did it listing on ebay.
I had my foot curled under the metal swivel under the chair rollers, forgot, stood up & promptly slammed it into the roller. Heard the snap, felt the pain BUT it was a FREE LISTING DAY, so I couldn't leave just to get the toe set.
Addendum: Did VERY well w/FLD but the toe is still a bit sensitive.
posted on January 19, 2001 08:36:00 AM
Wow, I am glad to hear that I am not the only one with "surfing" problems LOL...BTW, I got a screwdriver this morning and tightened up ALL the screws in my chair, don't want that to happen again!
Kaffro
posted on January 19, 2001 08:50:47 AM
LMAO ROF!! What a great thread!
kaffro - My chair also lost its screws - I barely caught myself at the last moment but the dinky little office chair was on the floor in pieces. LOL! After tightening it up, and going through this again another two times, I finally gathered it up and put it to rest out on the curb. (And then someone probably auctioned it off. LOL!)
december3 - I died laughing when I read your post. I have three cats - I know ZACLY what you're talking about. (And if you LAUGH at them, god forbid, of course they look at you like YOU'RE the idiot, right? After all, they MEANT to do that, so what's your problem?)
Also, I was once so involved in my web surfing and had my eyeballs so glued to my monitor, that I put my cigarette out on my mouse pad instead of in my ash tray
By the way I am finally trying to quit smoking... I'm a pack-a-day smoker and only had 6 cigs yesterday. I hope to have less today, and then go down to zero in a few days. I don't know if I can really do it ( have tried many times before...) but what a nice concept to possibly be able to BREATHE again. And to not ruin any more mouse pads
posted on January 19, 2001 08:51:48 AM
Oh, Skittles aren't computer friendly candies. They are only safe if you keep them in a bowl/bag/pile and never in your hand. Otherwise those SOBs stick to your hands and are the worst for mouses.
The worst, by far, would have to be ice cream for me. For some reason my whole COMPUTER collects ice cream residue and I don't even spill it 0_o
posted on January 19, 2001 11:02:03 AMdecember3 Cannot stop laughling. That was so funny. I have 7 cats & anyone of the 7 would pull that same attitude.
posted on January 19, 2001 11:57:45 AMLOL This thread is a riot! My almost falling out of the chair scenario involved playing tug-of-war with the dog while surfing (he was feeling ignored) and he almost pulled me all the way over! I scared him away with the scream One of my 6 cats regularly naps on my lap while I'm surfing. She stretches out and rests her head on the armrest. One day her head slipped off when she woke up and looked at me like I did it! Yep, I know cat attitude
~~Angels fly because they take themselves lightly~~
posted on January 19, 2001 12:35:26 PM
OH, BOY!
funny thread, but when it happened to me, it was NOT fun!
I was, as you might imagine, leaning over to get something and three of the four screws on my chair fell out at the same time...
I TRIED to catch the desk on the way down and missed...
I hit my radiant heated, cement based floor TAIL-BONE first...
Honestly, it hurt so bad, but the whole thing was SO ridiculous, it took me a few seconds to make up my mind whether or not to LAUGH or CRY...
Crying won and it took about a month of sitting funny before I could actually sit BACK in ANY chair...
And I SWEAR, when it's cold out now, my tail-bone ACHES!
As for replacing the chair, they ALL HAVE SCREWS!
So what's a woman to do, but live with screwdriver in hand and hope it NEVER happens again!
posted on January 19, 2001 12:43:02 PM
I try to maintain a sophisticated demenaor while doing my ebaY Thang!! No Bunny Slippers or Bathrobe for me. One wants to have a professional attitude while taking care of business....eyah!! I set my office chair at its highest, makes it easier for the
arthritic knees to get up, well, dropped a pen, bent over to pick it up. Point of no return realized I was in big trouble, grabbed edge of desk, fell anyway. Gathered myself together tried getting up and banged my head on the underside of desk. When I finally made it into the chair, I looked at my monitor screen which was bright blue and read "Catastrophic Error"....no kidding...I never did find the pen until the vacuum ate it.
I thought the end of the world had happened in 30 seconds. Definitely hazardous to our health this ebaY stuff!!
Oh and to top it off my 18 lb Maine Coon cat forgot his duty as a "Purring Paperweight" and became so alarmed he scattered all my printouts all over making his get a way!!
Zilvy..."I started out with nothing and still have most of it"
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[ edited by Zilvy on Jan 19, 2001 12:45 PM ]
posted on January 19, 2001 03:17:48 PM
This thread is hilarious! I have never experienced the falling out of my chair ebay hazard... but unfortuneately my husband has. I had this ebay chair that I loved! It was about 10 years old but the seat was molded just right!!! I have a bad tendency of leaning back while reading and over the years the chair has just worn out. About three months ago I decided to get creative and rigged the back of the chair so it would stay in place while using. It worked great!!! ... until new years eve when my husband decided to use my computer real quick in stead of turning his on. He sat down and the powers that be must have wanted to remind him he was in the wrong spot.. because my quick-fix of the chair gave and he fell backwards and whammed his head a good one. He came running through the house looking for me ... to either yell or ask for sympathy I'm not sure which... and when he found me I couldn't help it... I laughed! Needless to say I didn't get kissed at midnight.
posted on January 19, 2001 03:51:20 PM
Wow, and I thought I finally found a safe hobby selling on eBay. Maybe I'd better take up white water rafting or something a bit safer?
So far my worst "incident" was around Christmas time. It was about 4:56 pm and the post office closed at 5:00 pm. I was taking the métro (subway), and RAN up the escalator stairs, almost pushing people of the way with an armload of packages and envelopes.
Finally, I was in the home stretch, almost at the top of the stairs ready to run outside and down the street to the PO. I couldn't believe it, nobody dawldling around near the exit gates, just some little old lady standing next to the exit gate looking for something in her purse.
Good, I thought, I'll just quickly run past her and I should be home free. Just as I was approching the gate, she started to hobble over to the gate, I tried to slow down, but the floor was all wet and I slid into her, and dropped several items. I crashed into the solid metal frame next to the gate to avoid hitting her full force (it was either that or the old hag, I mean nice old lady, would have been flattened).
Not too painful, at the time, the pain, and bruises set in later.
I must looked like a big meanie, I picked up my parcels, and continued running to the post office, just to see the one of the employees reaching over to lock the door. Doh!
posted on January 19, 2001 04:41:03 PM
Got up to get a soda. Came back, slammed toe into metal brace of chair. Danced around for a bit before examining the now broken little toe.
Got up to lower shade over window. Shade snapped free, hitting me in the nose. Broke it(the nose, not the shade).
Repeatedly bang knees on keyboard ledge.
Apparently I don't possess much of that cat grace, but I do have the "I meant to do that" attitude...
posted on January 19, 2001 05:56:43 PM
When I started my shop years ago I had a tall antique bar stool that I would occasionally sit on behind the counter. One day someone came in and made me an offer I couldn't refuse and I sold it.
Later that day a very good looking guy came in to shop and he started flirting with me. As he was shopping I casually stepped backwards to "perch" on the tall stool and suddenly realized that I had replaced it with an old lower one. I am tall and kind of went "down" really fast. The legs weren't glued in to the top of the stool and they fell out on the floor.
I managed to catch myself on the counter and not fall but it was so embarrassing. I was hoping he didn't notice but he must have heard the noise. He was really nice and kept flirting and he spent lots of money. I went out and bought another tall stool that we still use today.
posted on January 19, 2001 08:16:10 PM
We have two German Shepherds, Max and Nova. They will lay on the floor of the office like dog rugs. It is like running an obstacle course to avoid stepping on the dog rugs.
While listing one day, I had to get up and leave the room. When I returned I was weaving my way through the dog rugs when someone came to the door. Max our 120lb puppy jumped up and tripped me so that I fell into my chair, hit the key board and erased my listings. My husband answered the door and I was sitting in my chair, laughing and crying at the same time.
Max and Nova both decide that they need to cheer me up. They both jumped up to put their paws on my shoulders and almost overturned the chair with me in it. I decided it was time to take a break before I got broken.
[ edited by msstone on Jan 19, 2001 08:20 PM ]
posted on January 20, 2001 08:53:59 AM
Another thing happened to me while ebaying that I forgot about.
Two weeks ago, on the way to the PO, some nice 80 year old lady drove right thru a stop sign and slammed into me. Of course, she was sorry. When the police arrived, she started some sob story how she had the right of way and I was in a rush! LIAR....... This was one day after I got my car back from the garage. Why? A week before that I managed to drive right over a friends mailbox and flatten it like a pancake! Then had to slowly back myself off of the mailbox. Wasnt pretty!
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