I'm stupid but I can learn.

Tyme2fish

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The wife can't start the van. Battery is dead. I charge the battery over night but it just groans a little.
Take battery with me to work and get a new battery this morning.
I install new battery in van and still no go. Dome lights don't even come on.Yep, postive cable to positive and neg to neg. I get out my 12 volt tester and no light when I touch the cable ends. It lights when I stick it on the top of the posts.
This is where stupid happens. I look and see that I forgot to take the plastic cover off the negative terminal before I installed the cable. DUH!!! Problem solved.
 

LadyFish

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

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Dooh! I hate when that happens :)
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From SW Florida, A proud member of iboats since March 25,2001
The old me
 

QC

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

You're a better (or stupider) man than me to fess up to that one . . . :D
 

aspeck

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

Hmmm, did someone say that T2F was blonde?
 

QC

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

Methinks that should be the end of your signature line . . .
 

Kiwi Phil

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

I reckon T2F is short a Kangaroo in the top paddock.
Cheers
Phillip
 

Link

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

Man most of us have done worse!
But I wouldn't tell on myself! :)
 

Bob_VT

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

At least it was not an exspensive error.
 

SS MAYFLOAT

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

Ah come on now, T2F could have done worse. He could have bought one of those half pound dummy batteries that they use for display.8)
 

Tyme2fish

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

Hmmm, did someone say that T2F was blonde?

Nope, all grey, what's left of it.
 

Tyme2fish

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

Methinks that should be the end of your signature line . . .

It was not a mistake. It was a problem solving exercise!!
 

rwise

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

now that's funny, me I have never done anything like that no way not me. :D
 

rottenray6402

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Re: I'm stupid but I can learn.

OK since you are man enough to admit it I will tell you my similar story. One time I was fishing with a friend who was extremely serious about catching fish. It was one of those fall days when we were getting tons of hits on our spinnerbaits. He was catching aa bunch of fish but it seemed I couldn't set the hook to save my life. He said let me see your spinnerbait so I showed it to him and he discovered I had left the little plastic protector on the hook! I have never lived that one down! :^
 

KaGee

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Definetly a nominee for SHT of The Year. 8)
 
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