Whether or not some of us are willing to admit it, we’ve all done things on job sites that make us question our tradeworthiness and/or intellect. Let’s face it: Your body works hard, and your mind recognizes this and tries to compensate by taking hours or even days off without consulting the body. While occasionally brain vacations can have disastrous results, more often than not they result in nothing more than embarrassing episodes that you hope aren’t made public. You hope.
But we’re not here to protect anyone’s privacy or fragile ego, which is why we’ve chosen three award-winning goofs for this month’s feature. Hopefully, reading these vignettes will make you feel better about the last dumb thing you did. Or it may heighten a sense of competition for honorable mention in the Guinness Book of Records’ “Drywall Dumbness” category. These are true stories (or our versions of them) gleaned from somewhat reliable sources in the field. The perpetrators names have been withheld—not because we wish to protect the innocent—we just don’t know them.