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Subj:    And you think YOU had a bad day?
Date:    97-06-02 13:20:39 EDT
From:    KRPurcell


  The following is taken from a Florida newspaper:
  A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the
  house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle and
  somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man, still holding the
  handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door and the motorcycle
  dumped onto the floor inside the house.
  
  The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her
  husband laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle laying
  next to him and the patio door shattered. The wife ran to the phone
  and summoned an ambulance.
  
  Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the
  several flights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics
  to her husband.
  
  After the ambulance arrived and transported the husband to the hospital,
  the wife uprighted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing
  that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some papers towels,
  blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet.
  
  The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to come home.
  After arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the
  damage done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went into the
  bathroom, sat on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing
  the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl
  while still seated.
  
  The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband
  screaming.   She ran into the bathroom and found her husband laying on the
  floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the
  buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin. The wife again ran to  the
  phone and called for an ambulance.
  
  The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street.
  The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying him
  to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street
  accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the
  husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started
  laughing so hard, one of them tipped the stretcher and dumped the husband
  out. He fell down the remaining steps and broke his ankle.