Had this happen to me when I was a teen. 30 years later I can feel this pain like it just happened. Weird how we learn from our mistakes, by vividly remembering the pain.
I distinctly remember the pain of getting a finger smashed between the floor and a cinder block when I was 10. That was 21 years ago, definitely stays with you.
For me it's the car door on a vacation in the Austrian woods. Still remember the slam, the pain and the refreshing cool Austrian water in a river. About 25 years ago (i was 7 then).
I work in the stone industry, with similar size slabs to these and much much larger. Iāve had it happen to me a few times, and boy is it not fun. Yeah the pain stays with you, and the memory of it returned in a flash after watching this.
My ex wife used to do serious damage when she messed up, like top tier klutz. I could manage that, but she would just laugh, zero awareness of the situation. That would piss me off more than the actual damage
My neighbor did that. Had three pallets of rough stones delivered to setup landscaping for her gardens. Got half way done and didnāt touch it for two years. It looks great now that itās finally done, but it was rough for a long time. A pallet and a half of stones just sitting in her driveway for two years and a half finished garden.
This. While installing the individual planks to my fence my girlfriendās job was to hold the spacer at the top while I lined up the height. We got about half the fence done in four hours and that was as much as I could do with her that day. The next day while she was at work I tried it by myself, got a system down, finished the second half in about two hours. I know she was trying, but her trying was slowing us down.
Well, she didn't hold it from the start, was it really her job to hold? Wasn't it his job to make sure what he is working on is safe, before starting to wiggle on that one piece?
That brings back a painfull memory. The one time that happened during sheet metal work I put my head under the sink for some cold water not to pass out from the pain and partly because of the horror of the thought that the finger inside the work glove is without question of no use to me anymore. Turns out it was just the nail that is fucked. The body replaced it once, didn't like the outcome and replaced it again. Was pretty amazing how it fixed itself.
After a few close calls on things like this, Iām super careful to outline exactly the job I need from any assistant and why it matters, and emphasize the critical part (ādo NOT let go of that paver until Iāve let go of the other one and moved my hands awayā)
Those freaking pavers weigh 90lbs a pop. Those are the 24 inch pavers. Saw them at HD. He might have broken his thumb. Dumbest thing unloading them on a decline. Wtf were they thinking. Some already broke I can see.
After seeing this reposted all week long, I finally realized that she was never holding the slabs to begin with. He knocked it down when he pulled it. Dude is dumb and didn't wanna listen to his girl's suggestion.
And he also didnāt let go of the paver he was holding when they started to fall. Everyoneās so quick to blame her, but if heād let go theyād have a broken paver instead of a broken finger.
My wife is like this when we work on projects. Iām always like, why? Why didnāt you help, you saw I was doing x? And Iāve learned that she just didnāt grow up helping with these types of projects so she just doesnāt know when to step in or how to, if I fail to communicate 100% accurately she just watches. Where as I helped my Dad maintain our house, so you just figure out when help is needed and how to do so without getting in the way.
It's sort of a vicious cycle. Girls weren't as likely to be taught how to do handiwork in the past, so women today are less likely to have an intuitive sense on how to go about it. Then little girls aren't taught as often because the mothers can't and the fathers just assume women can't do it. Speaking really generally here, I know there are plenty of handy women and mothers already going against the stereotypes of the past. Hopefully we can further break the cycle and teach our daughters as much as our sons.
No, just regular thinking - but it should be done before you start, not after. What they are doing here just wont work (see how that one flagstone he's trying to move is stuck at a 45 degree angle?). I see this type of thing happen a lot in my line of work with new apprentices, when they are only thinking 'I have to do x' instead of thinking 'how do I do x' and just 'getting on with it' without thinking or asking and then getting themselves into really unsafe situations.
It's probably an everybody thing, but I have this with my wife. One time I was literally hanging from rafters while building out a structure, and she ran off to check on something.
I like the way she taps her fingers on the slabs after pulling them back off his fingers likes she's thinking awkwardly I'm pretty sure that was my fault lmao
Same happened to me but between a fire door hinge gap as it closed. Crushed the bone to the point finger couldn't be sowed back on. Worst was the phantom pain and healing, especially in cold weather.
The one he grabbed was the wrong one in the first instance. She should have held them all up, and he should move the ones laying down first. The. He can take the rest 1 at a time from her. Tf?
Had something similar happen to me with logs when I was a kid. Brother dropped a log, it fell and smashed my thumb against the log I was trying to pick up. The pressure made my thumb explode open, needed surgery and a dozen stitches. Been over 30 years and I still flinch when seeing people's fingers squished.
My dad and brothers set a 3 ton concrete column down on my foot when I was 12 or 13, couldnāt walk for like three weeks, right in the middle of middle school football season
I blame the guy - you don't trust unqualified people to keep you safe. She doesn't handle heavy slabs of concrete, she doesnt know the dangers - thats on you buddy. Very predictable outcome.
Ummā¦. Why did they stack pavers like that in the first place? Not only is it a safety hazard (clearly) but theyāre also going to have so many break. Those are like 80lbs each and youāre laying them on the weakest point.
That's how tiles/pavers are normally stacked - if you stack them flat they have much more chance to break as they are brittle if you catch a corner on something not level.
I think dude owns some of the responsibility here. He should know better. Already broken tiles at both ends of the stack, those things arenāt cheap to be just cracking them. You strap all of them together before separatingā¦ winch strap. Loosen strap, rock one away from the column and hold, replace the strap on remaining column, deal with the freed one. Heās lucky only two were loose enough to shift into his thumbs. Iāve see entire stacks domino over. I feel his pain, but was anticipating worse.
This is why I always love when people wanna do something by themselves instead of paying a professional. When I was kid and my father has an accident like the video I always say "paying for other to do it sounds good now right?" See is face angy was worthy lol
He knows to walk away even though it's her fault, because if he would get mad at her, she would get mad at him and then it would be all his fault. Good lad.
Helps to put the finger/thumb in water with salt mixed in, then add ice and mix. Put your rhumb/finger in for a bit, not too long but it works well to quickly stop the pain.
He needs to get better at giving instructions - and make sure instructions are followed before he.. uhm, whatever it is he tries to accomplish by tugging at that tile.
Had this happen to me when I was a teen. 30 years later I can feel this pain like it just happened. Weird how we learn from our mistakes, by vividly remembering the pain.
I distinctly remember the pain of getting a finger smashed between the floor and a cinder block when I was 10. That was 21 years ago, definitely stays with you.
Had my partner do it to me 15 years ago. Now when we do a project like this she says
core memory is formed when painful shit happened to you.
For me it's the car door on a vacation in the Austrian woods. Still remember the slam, the pain and the refreshing cool Austrian water in a river. About 25 years ago (i was 7 then).
I work in the stone industry, with similar size slabs to these and much much larger. Iāve had it happen to me a few times, and boy is it not fun. Yeah the pain stays with you, and the memory of it returned in a flash after watching this.
I wonder if extreme sport and combat athletes have poor memory lol
And yet women still continue to have more than one child...
Yep, me and my other half would have been arguing here.
I screamed when she let go and stood up. Flashbacks, man.
Oh especially with that little smile she has at the end. That would not have gone over well
My ex wife used to do serious damage when she messed up, like top tier klutz. I could manage that, but she would just laugh, zero awareness of the situation. That would piss me off more than the actual damage
Itās 2 seconds of video. Iām sure arguments were had.
Him: We're done
Broken slabs at both ends of the pack and some smooshed thumbs.
Sigh.... No more Xbox for a while now.
Her: āI love power tools! Letās give this home renovating a shot.ā *Sponge Bob: two hours later..
The walk of a dude who just saw god and he told him: You fucked up
yup, she can stay there until tomorrow. Let her think about what she did wrong
Her: tapping on blocks like nothing happened
My neighbor did that. Had three pallets of rough stones delivered to setup landscaping for her gardens. Got half way done and didnāt touch it for two years. It looks great now that itās finally done, but it was rough for a long time. A pallet and a half of stones just sitting in her driveway for two years and a half finished garden.
I canāt tell if that whimper at the end is him or her, but man poor guy I felt that.
Thatās definitely him whimper. Ouch!!
Some tools better left out
This. While installing the individual planks to my fence my girlfriendās job was to hold the spacer at the top while I lined up the height. We got about half the fence done in four hours and that was as much as I could do with her that day. The next day while she was at work I tried it by myself, got a system down, finished the second half in about two hours. I know she was trying, but her trying was slowing us down.
He has such great self control! I would have been saying fāing all over the place!
Nah, you know someone is hurt when they can't even swear and just go silent
I just laid those exact same pavers a few weeks ago. Theyāre heavy as shit.
Are they normally delivered like that? Seems like they should be stacked on a pallet on the other side.
90lb each.
88 lbs. I've laid so many of these.
That little whimper at the end, feel so bad for the guy š„ŗ
Oh wait, there's sound? I'm going back for a few more watches!
lmao i'm laughing so hard at this
Feel the pain it really fuckin smarts as the blood starts pumping back into the thumb- super cool did not losing his shit
If it lands on the nail it gets a x10 pain bonus.
He is obviously fuming, just needs a reset. Good man though.
I know the feeling, broke both of my thumbs at work once, doctor at the ER said finger trauma is the worst because of all the nerve endings there.
She has one job š¤£
She was just about to give him the site safety induction talk as well.
My wife would have immediately said "see, I told you you need gloves, but nooo you always know better."
This wasn't it.
Well, she didn't hold it from the start, was it really her job to hold? Wasn't it his job to make sure what he is working on is safe, before starting to wiggle on that one piece?
You can tell he gets the initial burst of pain, a quick reprieve, then the throbbing āwant to shit your pantsā pain sets in as he walks away.
Why is this considered funny?
Hereās a Mel Brooks quote on the difference between tragedy and comedy:
Ahhhhhh
I think because of what she says as she lets go.
Never trust somebody in crocs to help you move cement.
Never trust somebody in crocs to help you move cement.
Or wearing matching jogging pants and a hoodie
Wait let me nag you instead of just holding the fucking thing like you asked
Watch her fingers nervously type on the pad as he walks off.
she really annoys me
As someone who has replaced big tiles like this on a patio, that shit FUCKING HURTS, they are hella fucking heavy
Her nervous tapping afterwards she knew she fucked up and should have been paying attention and felt bad lol
I wonder how long it took her to apologize, and how many excuses came with it.
It would have been easier if she would have to stop talking and started working
She's wearing a matching gray sweat suit with socks and crocs. She's not there to work only to tell others how to do it
Less thinking, more holding.
That brings back a painfull memory. The one time that happened during sheet metal work I put my head under the sink for some cold water not to pass out from the pain and partly because of the horror of the thought that the finger inside the work glove is without question of no use to me anymore. Turns out it was just the nail that is fucked. The body replaced it once, didn't like the outcome and replaced it again. Was pretty amazing how it fixed itself.
I could hear her saying a second later, I can't hold this all day!
Why would anyone think thatās funny that man probably has a broken thumb now
Whatās funny about this?
After a few close calls on things like this, Iām super careful to outline exactly the job I need from any assistant and why it matters, and emphasize the critical part (ādo NOT let go of that paver until Iāve let go of the other one and moved my hands awayā)
She had one job...
Those things are upper limit of what most common men can move by hand. Each 24 by 24 block is just under 100 pounds. It is a beast.
What were they even doing?
Thereās a video.
Those freaking pavers weigh 90lbs a pop. Those are the 24 inch pavers. Saw them at HD. He might have broken his thumb. Dumbest thing unloading them on a decline. Wtf were they thinking. Some already broke I can see.
After seeing this reposted all week long, I finally realized that she was never holding the slabs to begin with. He knocked it down when he pulled it. Dude is dumb and didn't wanna listen to his girl's suggestion.
And he also didnāt let go of the paver he was holding when they started to fall. Everyoneās so quick to blame her, but if heād let go theyād have a broken paver instead of a broken finger.
I have had my thumbs smooshed like that before, it canes
Those are around 85lbs each. The rectangle ones are 110lbs each.
yeah he prolly broke his thumbs
My wife is like this when we work on projects. Iām always like, why? Why didnāt you help, you saw I was doing x? And Iāve learned that she just didnāt grow up helping with these types of projects so she just doesnāt know when to step in or how to, if I fail to communicate 100% accurately she just watches. Where as I helped my Dad maintain our house, so you just figure out when help is needed and how to do so without getting in the way.
It's sort of a vicious cycle. Girls weren't as likely to be taught how to do handiwork in the past, so women today are less likely to have an intuitive sense on how to go about it. Then little girls aren't taught as often because the mothers can't and the fathers just assume women can't do it. Speaking really generally here, I know there are plenty of handy women and mothers already going against the stereotypes of the past. Hopefully we can further break the cycle and teach our daughters as much as our sons.
what was she saying before the finger smash?
"its just easier if you"
Thatās a broken thumb for sure
God dang it, I just came home from the hospital after losing a piece of my pinky finger at work, and I gotta watch that?!
"mr & mrs dumbass are at it again!" - all the neighbors.
Iām not sure this actually fits under the category of āfunnyā. Guy probably broke his thumb
"It would be easier if..."
No, just regular thinking - but it should be done before you start, not after. What they are doing here just wont work (see how that one flagstone he's trying to move is stuck at a 45 degree angle?). I see this type of thing happen a lot in my line of work with new apprentices, when they are only thinking 'I have to do x' instead of thinking 'how do I do x' and just 'getting on with it' without thinking or asking and then getting themselves into really unsafe situations.
She could give a crapā¦..
Husband: Gets thumbs turned into mushy skin sacks.
Women. So much as graze them with a toe nail and it's like hell has risen, but if they hurt you, it's your fault.
It's probably an everybody thing, but I have this with my wife. One time I was literally hanging from rafters while building out a structure, and she ran off to check on something.
I love my girlfriend more than life itself. But I also won't move furniture with her ever again.
I fail to see why is this funny... Can someone explain to me?
It's funny in the same way those skater falling over compilations are funny. If you don't get it you won't get it.
NOT funny.
I like the way she taps her fingers on the slabs after pulling them back off his fingers likes she's thinking awkwardly I'm pretty sure that was my fault lmao
Yeah fuck that. I need my helper to respect when my hands are in the "hospital zone"
Hazard Recognition, Situational Awareness, Pinch Points. BEFORE you take on a task, ask yourself,
It looks like things already went wrong way before that.
Same happened to me but between a fire door hinge gap as it closed. Crushed the bone to the point finger couldn't be sowed back on. Worst was the phantom pain and healing, especially in cold weather.
Damn is something wrong with me? I dont find this funny at all.
That's why you use work gloves...
I never go to work without my steel thumbed gloves!
Sheās helping!
This is why i donāt like doing construction like stuff with my mom, she always does some shit like this. I either dont do it or do it with dad.
She has one job and canāt do that lmao
The one he grabbed was the wrong one in the first instance. She should have held them all up, and he should move the ones laying down first. The. He can take the rest 1 at a time from her. Tf?
Hindsight is 2020
She's like "it's easier if..." and steps away from her one job. Classic.
I see a lot of comments that have me perplexed. The woman is not responsible for letting go of the stack. She wasn't holding it from the beginning.
Exactly! These people are missing it. She wasn't keeping 10 pavers upright. Gravity was until he pushed it down with the wedged paver.
Ouch....I would just leave it there I would be so mad lol
It would be funnier if it didn't happen all the damn time...
Aw this isnāt funny :(
This lost a lot of length from the last time it was posted a few days ago
Idk why but those kind of residences always scared me.
Ya had one job
Was expecting his thumbs to come out like big, glowing, red balloons
Had something similar happen to me with logs when I was a kid. Brother dropped a log, it fell and smashed my thumb against the log I was trying to pick up. The pressure made my thumb explode open, needed surgery and a dozen stitches. Been over 30 years and I still flinch when seeing people's fingers squished.
She was probably in the middle of telling him what he was doing wrong š
You know the video has audio? She literally tried to share an idea while simutaneously forgetting the task at hand
I'm sure there was a video of him cutting the straps and breaking some before this... anyone seen it?
I find this more
Who saw the other half of the video where the pavers fell and cracked lol
I have typed out like 17 responses to this but I'm just so fucking mad at her for not helping.
My dad and brothers set a 3 ton concrete column down on my foot when I was 12 or 13, couldnāt walk for like three weeks, right in the middle of middle school football season
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I blame the guy - you don't trust unqualified people to keep you safe. She doesn't handle heavy slabs of concrete, she doesnt know the dangers - thats on you buddy. Very predictable outcome.
Is a person getting hurt just supposed to be automatically funny? Because I don't get what's amusing about this.
Love working with my wife. Always asks why u yelling
Dumb cunt. That is all.
Stupid wife šæ
I felt his pain I truly did
I'm just loving that the guy has to walk away so he doesn't say something he'll regret to her.
This is what having no communicated plan for handling a dangerous situation looks like.
The way he silently walks away, tells me this isn't the first time something like this has happened.
Ummā¦. Why did they stack pavers like that in the first place? Not only is it a safety hazard (clearly) but theyāre also going to have so many break. Those are like 80lbs each and youāre laying them on the weakest point.
That's how tiles/pavers are normally stacked - if you stack them flat they have much more chance to break as they are brittle if you catch a corner on something not level.
I gonna assume it was delivered on its side and the end pavers fell and smashed as soon as the tie was cut.
People think this is funny?
In a pinch, I could find it funny
Oh they will be joking about this for awhile, lighten up.
Hell yeah. Because we've all experienced it at one time or another.
Yes.
Mr mature man over here
I fail to see what part of this is funny.
Probably wasnāt half as painful as seeing his wife in crocs and socks
Opposable thumbs are sometimes a curse
I definitely had a laugh
Ouchie
Took it like nothing happened
Ouch š¤
I think dude owns some of the responsibility here. He should know better. Already broken tiles at both ends of the stack, those things arenāt cheap to be just cracking them. You strap all of them together before separatingā¦ winch strap. Loosen strap, rock one away from the column and hold, replace the strap on remaining column, deal with the freed one. Heās lucky only two were loose enough to shift into his thumbs. Iāve see entire stacks domino over. I feel his pain, but was anticipating worse.
For sure. They're both doing a half assed job, but he is clearly trying to take point and doing a poor job at it.
Womenā¦.
He needs some milk
How did you think
This is why I always love when people wanna do something by themselves instead of paying a professional. When I was kid and my father has an accident like the video I always say "paying for other to do it sounds good now right?" See is face angy was worthy lol
He knows to walk away even though it's her fault, because if he would get mad at her, she would get mad at him and then it would be all his fault. Good lad.
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Helps to put the finger/thumb in water with salt mixed in, then add ice and mix. Put your rhumb/finger in for a bit, not too long but it works well to quickly stop the pain.
Not funny at all. My dad lost a finger in a similar accident.
Wtf?! Just hold it wife...
She had one job.
I see everyone blaming the woman for not holding the pavers.... But no one is noticing that he caused the pavers to fall?
What a fucking stupid cow
Thatās why women belong in the kitchen.
He needs to get better at giving instructions - and make sure instructions are followed before he.. uhm, whatever it is he tries to accomplish by tugging at that tile.
Give instructions? The video is rather clear as to the fact she thinks sheās the foreman on this project.
Fucking morons lol
Damn she quick as a brick
Who moved her up from flashlight duty?
*fleshlight
Bitch had one job
This marriage has a lot of problems.
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Oh lord, the twitch into sudden freeze you can see him do.
He was fuckin MAD LOL
I felt that.
Pretty sure I heard him crying.
R/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Sorry Baby, does it hurt? No. Iāll just walk it off.
I felt that.Get that hot needle ready
If it helps, coulda been worse, coulda been your weiner....
Maybe Cobra Tate was right.