<p>I figured this would be a great learning thread as well as an entertaining one. I’ll go first:</p>
<p>What Happens When You Self-Clean the Oven and Leave the Teflon Bottom Sheet in Place? The sheet turns white and very crispy/dust-like except around the front edges and leaves a white residue on the blue enamel oven bottom. I’ll report back about whether a second self-clean cycle removes the residue. :o Oh well, at least I remembered to remove the shiny metal racks.</p>
<p>um, teflon and similar substances are not known to be stable at high temperatures. Self-clean cycle temperatures are in the 500 degree plus range, I think. The fumes were probably harmful (toxic), but too late to worry about that now. However, I always throw out my non-stick cookware when it starts to fail. I would not continue to use that oven until you replace the damaged piece.</p>
<p>What happens when you kick the shower surround as you’re getting out of a shower you’ve exited thousands of times before without incident?</p>
<p>You break your toe. Dumb, dumb, dumb.</p>
<p>Greta, it’s probably not Teflon per se. It is made to go in the oven, but not to withstand the self-clean, obviously. :o Yes, it did stink, but then it does without the sheet as well…like you said, too late now! I did toss it (well, what was left of it–it was still intact, oddly enough).</p>
<p>Mapesy: OW!</p>
<p>Similar story- Outside grill grates needed cleaning and husband thought it would be a great idea to put them in the self cleaning oven the weekend before Thanksgiving. Did I mention I was having 30 people to dinner on Thanksgiving? Blew out the entire oven, parts would take 2 weeks to arrive due to the holiday. My husband and I had a few words before moving only the immediate family to my mother’s for dinner.</p>
<p>Fast forward 2 years- Went to clean self cleaning oven again (without grill grates) and darn if the oven went dead again. When the repair guy came he checked the reset switch and it had just flipped. Showed me how to check it if the same thing happened again; only problem is you have to pull the double oven out of the wall, not something my husband and I really could do on our own. The repair guy also mentioned this was a problem with this brand of ovens. Funny, I thought if you had a self cleaning oven you could self clean it at the high temperature recommended by the manufacturer; what was I thinking!</p>
<p>Kick the exposed hinge of a cabinet and viola! you have impressively blackened toes! </p>
<p>Walk into a boulder and your shin has a momento for the rest of your life (sorry, this was when I was a teen but the momento is permanent)!</p>
<p>Ask an airline gate attendant about what altitude they pressurize the airplane to and risk being barred from the flight for medical reasons (it’s a long story); fortunately they relented and did let me fly without incident, but the entire flight crew was jittery.</p>
<p>HIMom you may have been asking about airline pressure for an inter-island jump, but for my mom’s pulmonary fibrosis I have learned that normal planes usually pressurize to about 5000 ft for the duration of the flight, BUT new planes may only pressurize to 8000 and some European brands to 10000 ft. No wonder everyone gets sleepy.</p>
<p>As for dumb the list is long - but includes seeing the husky who was blissfully chewing a remnant of rawhide (which usually led to throwing up the remnant a couple of hours later) and deciding to just stick my finger in between chews and knock the rawhide bit out. Needless to say this resulted in a trip to the ER and extensive discussions of how the dog did not bite me, but instead that i had stuck my finger in her chewing mouth. In my defense, i was pregnant and dopey.</p>
<p>Dumping the entire contents of the cat litterbox into a plastic bag only to discover that the bag had a huge hole in it. :eek: Now that’s dumb!</p>
<p>What happens when you shoo the agitated cat off the bookshelf–you spend two 4-hour periods at the emergency room getting iv antibiotics. Lesson learned: don’t mess with a cat that is looking out a window and hissing.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>An acquaintance who is a vet said that cat bites are the biggest occupational hazard in the profession. He says he knows a veterinary professor who had a career threatening cat bite incident.</p>
<p>I am seriously grinning from ear to ear and have tears in my eyes…this IS entertaining!</p>
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<p>I imagine their attitude was similar to that DS experiences when explaining to ER doc that his broken leg was a result of jumping off the 15’ high top of the “twisty slide” at the park. :D</p>
<p>I love this thread!</p>
<p>What happens when you walk from your car to your classroom in the morning and stand in front of your room trying to open it w/ your car remote? Well, of course nothing, but you look around and hope no one saw you do that.</p>
<p>Oh…second cleaning did not help. Baby oil removed some of residue. Formerly lovely oven looks like hell. Boo!</p>
<p>What happens when you leave the kitchen faucet running and the drain is covered by a plastic cutting board and you walk away, forgetting to turn off the water? </p>
<p>You flood the kitchen and the wood floor gets warped and you have to replace a big section of it.</p>
<p>What happens when your brain is already in the car and halfway up the street, while your body is racing down the stairs of your home, and a list of “important” things to do is spinning your thoughts like a gyroscope? You don’t pay proper attention to what you’re actually doing, assume you have only one tread left, when in fact you have two. You come down disastrously badly in an attempt to correct your first mis-step and break your fool ankle in three places, that’s what! All those “important things” evaporate like fog burn-off as you writhe in excruciating pain and are rushed to the ER, passing out periodically along the way. After four hours of surgery that was supposed to take only two, you’re left with 11 screws and a plate, and a constant reminder that you have been a complete idiot.:D</p>
<p>Actually, I was ADVISED by a lung specialist to talk with the gate agent about their pressurization of the plane from PA to CA & foolishly took his advise (tho the pharmacist travelling with me urged me NOT to). The pilot I later spoke with anonymously in CA told me pilots have NO control over pressurization of the cabins. I’ve been informed that they are generally pressurized to 5000-8000 feet (but wouldn’t be surprised if it goes up to 10,000).</p>
<p>I am careful now NOT to talk about these questions with the airlines, except if I casually and anonymously speak with one eating a meal at the airport.</p>
<p>Oh yea, what happens when you wash clothes and forget to double-check that the laundry sink doesn’t have something that is blocking the drain? You end up bailing and bailing and bailing! Silly us, we have done this more times than we care to admit! Fortunately, our floor is vinyl sheet instead of wood, but sheesh!</p>
<p>Try sitting in class and you take your glasses off to clean them only to have one of the side ‘arms’ fall off. I swear i didn’t do that on purpous. Its a good thing i had an eye doctor appointment the next day and was getting new ones. Still…</p>