Wounded! Sort of...
I had heard on the radio that a civilian truck driver working in Iraq suffered second degree burns to his thighs and rear from sitting on a too hot toilet seat in an Army issue porta-potty. The trucker’s brother phoned the incident in to the rock-and-roll radio station I listen to.
Thinking that the incident was too humorous not to tell him about, I related the story to my son in an email. And he responded to it a couple days later.
“As soon as I get the cable back for my camera (I borrowed it to a buddy), I’ll send you a picture of MY second degree burns.”
First a little background information. Stryker drivers are responsible for their vehicles. If it needs to be repaired they have to handle getting the repairs completed – whether they do them or they take them to a maintenance shed. Some repairs are minor repairs that the driver and maybe an assistant can complete out in the field. Major problems have to be diagnosed and the vehicle taken in to the “pros” for repairs.
He was taking care of some minor problems with his Stryker and made one serious mistake. He left one of his tools lying out in the sun on a 130 degree summer day. Not thinking, he reached for the tool and wrapped his fingers around the handle. The tool was so hot that it burned the palm of his hand.
He has second degree burns to the palm of his hand.
We all joke about how “it’s hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk” during hot summer days, probably never thinking that it can actually get that hot. It appears that he learned the hard way that it can in fact get that hot.
He’s still working, he’s still driving and he’ll send me the photos as soon as he can.
Thinking that the incident was too humorous not to tell him about, I related the story to my son in an email. And he responded to it a couple days later.
“As soon as I get the cable back for my camera (I borrowed it to a buddy), I’ll send you a picture of MY second degree burns.”
First a little background information. Stryker drivers are responsible for their vehicles. If it needs to be repaired they have to handle getting the repairs completed – whether they do them or they take them to a maintenance shed. Some repairs are minor repairs that the driver and maybe an assistant can complete out in the field. Major problems have to be diagnosed and the vehicle taken in to the “pros” for repairs.
He was taking care of some minor problems with his Stryker and made one serious mistake. He left one of his tools lying out in the sun on a 130 degree summer day. Not thinking, he reached for the tool and wrapped his fingers around the handle. The tool was so hot that it burned the palm of his hand.
He has second degree burns to the palm of his hand.
We all joke about how “it’s hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk” during hot summer days, probably never thinking that it can actually get that hot. It appears that he learned the hard way that it can in fact get that hot.
He’s still working, he’s still driving and he’ll send me the photos as soon as he can.
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