A Hint - Time to Retire the LD?

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A Hint - Time to Retire the LD?

March 01, 2021, 05:07:25 pm

So today I was doing a project on our much loved LD. As I was closing the driver’s side door, I hit myself in the nose with the door. That’s right. I closed the door on my nose 🥺! Let’s just say it hurt more than I want to describe.

I’m thinking this just might be a hint that I’m too old or too clumsy to RV. At the least, it might be a tiny hint of things to come.

That’s it from here.

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Reply #1 – March 01, 2021, 05:21:12 pm

"I closed the door on my nose!"

If you think that's painful try allowing your foot to slip off the edge of the running board and abrade your shin-bone from ankle to knee. With that slip-free coating you'll wind up looking like ground beef!

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Reply #2 – March 01, 2021, 05:41:02 pm

Quote from: Lazy Bones - March 01, 2021, 05:21:12 pm

If you think that's painful try allowing your foot to slip off the edge of the running board and abrade your shin-bone from ankle to knee. With that slip-free coating you'll wind up looking like ground beef!

Yikes! Another painful hint. Ouch ouch.

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Reply #3 – March 01, 2021, 05:58:43 pm

NO no no no. The hint is when this type of thing never happens. Granted Ed's example is a little extreme but it states that you do stuff with your RV. Where as if you never did anything with the RV no such injuries would happen. An the RV would just sit, and get lonesome, then start breaking down out of spite.

John, thinking about roads west, DaCrema

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Reply #4 – March 01, 2021, 06:46:53 pm

I'm with John.
It isn't a sign of anything other than you are using and working on your rig and you made a miscalculation. If we do anything long enough, we will make all the mistakes. Just don't make the same mistake twice.

Harold

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Reply #5 – March 01, 2021, 07:01:08 pm

To date, I have not done these things when doing whatever in/on the motorhome:

1. Closed the cab door on my head.
2. Fallen off the roof.
3. Zapped myself into senselessness.

A list of the things I have done is much longer, and I figure that additions to the list are inevitable.

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Reply #6 – March 01, 2021, 09:42:27 pm

Dear Ed & Margee,

After all your searching and input to this forum, you can never retire!!!

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Reply #7 – March 01, 2021, 10:46:00 pm

When we were boaters, we used to call our many small injuries "boat bites". Is there a name for them in the RVing world?

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Reply #8 – March 02, 2021, 12:02:42 am

I suspect even if you didn’t have your rig, some door somewhere would have got your nose.

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Reply #9 – March 02, 2021, 12:20:23 am

Ed, take a breath and say "Well Margee, the next time I do that it will be a mistake
Then start planning your next trip.
joel

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Reply #10 – March 02, 2021, 08:40:26 am

I like to call my mishaps “rookie mistakes.” Works for the first time, anyway. Hope your nose feels better, Ed!

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Reply #11 – March 02, 2021, 08:56:04 am

Jill and have both hit our heads on the side view mirrors usually when working on something underneath and getting tools.

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Reply #12 – March 02, 2021, 10:15:29 am

"Is there a name for them in the RVing world?"

There sure is Linda but it's not fit to print here!

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Reply #13 – March 02, 2021, 11:02:14 am

The lovely bolt on the entry door sneaks up on both of us all the time. Margee is particularly fond of that obstacle and has had a few discussions with it particularly when it grabs her.

Footnote: Yea ole’ nose doesn’t look the worse for wear and matches the other wrinkles.

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Reply #14 – March 02, 2021, 01:05:41 pm

"If you think that's painful try allowing your foot to slip off the edge of the running board and abrade your shin-bone from ankle to knee."

Oh, man, don't remind me. I've done that. Took months to heal!

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Reply #15 – March 02, 2021, 01:09:40 pm

So many good ways to hurt yourself in an LD.

Trying hard not to try any of them.
Larry

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Reply #16 – March 02, 2021, 01:24:43 pm

Ha! I thought Hot Spots only came with cell phones. Nope...I’ve found several in the RB. Unfortunately they are all recurring themes.

It’s always fun to realize that I’ve dodged another bullet. “That was close”! I feel really bad when the DW & DD locate a new one like the edge of the microwave door left open. That’ll leave a mark.

Can’t pad everything. 😖

Ducking every day, Kent

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Reply #17 – March 02, 2021, 02:28:47 pm

The underside corner of the storage cupboard above the dinette has gotten me too many times. The delicate ears of women and children should not hear my comments. I have finally padded it, but still hit the pad now and then.

Maybe the memory is going?

HD

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Reply #18 – March 02, 2021, 04:08:06 pm

In 10 yrs., I can count a total of 3 times we have put the awning out. Well, the brace bar reached and got my eyebrow as I was walking at a boondock spot in Anza Borrego and left me with a shiner for ten days. Really pretty color changes throughout the course of healing.

Robin

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Reply #19 – March 02, 2021, 04:23:58 pm

My annual moment of embarrassment in our midbath is smashing my head against the bathroom door while dismounting the crapper and pulling up my shorts at the same time. Happens ONCE every year. You folks with rear baths never experience such joy.

I have managed to avoid scraping my legs on the gritty surface of the running boards for 5 years in a row and have learned to push the mirrors against the doors to prevent concussing myself when working under our LD. But that bathroom door.....I swear it is laughing at me. ...

Steve K.

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Reply #20 – March 02, 2021, 08:11:17 pm

Well Ed, maybe it doesn't make you feel any better, but at least you can't feel alone

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Reply #21 – March 03, 2021, 12:12:57 am

Quote from: Steve K. - March 02, 2021, 04:23:58 pm

My annual moment of embarrassment in our midbath is smashing my head against the bathroom door while dismounting the crapper and pulling up my shorts at the same time. Happens ONCE every year. You folks with rear baths never experience such joy.

I have managed to avoid scraping my legs on the gritty surface of the running boards for 5 years in a row and have learned to push the mirrors against the doors to prevent concussing myself when working under our LD. But that bathroom door.....I swear it is laughing at me. ...

Steve K.

"...smashing my head against the bathroom door while dismounting the crapper and pulling up my shorts at the same time"

I suggest you disrobe before entering the throne room.

Chris

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Reply #22 – March 03, 2021, 06:40:45 am

Quote from: Chris Horst - March 03, 2021, 12:12:57 am

"...smashing my head against the bathroom door while dismounting the crapper and pulling up my shorts at the same time"

I suggest you disrobe before entering the throne room.

Chris

Chris, Chris, Chris,.... sometimes there just isn't enough time! But is that why they put such dark windows in our rigs?

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Reply #23 – March 03, 2021, 09:43:04 am

My favorite place is the overhead bunk. I can't remember the last time I've hit my head sitting up. I'm sure I've done it I just don't remember.

glen

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Reply #24 – March 03, 2021, 11:19:19 am

Like so many others, I couldn't begin to count the number of ouches that were self-inflicted. They heal, some faster than others.

When I was a VP at a consulting firm, one of my people came to me, closed the door, and told me she had made a mistake. It was going to mean a recalculation that would cost us a few $K. She was upset and offered to resign. I told her that someone who never made mistakes wasn't doing any work. She stayed.

The message of all of us, I think, is that if we never get dinged up by our RV lifestyle, we aren't using our RV.

Ken F in NM

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