> Anyone else?
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> Dagmar (and yes, I did it)

This little story is much better with the hand motions, so mentally add a good dose of flailing and fumbling at the appropriate point.

At a deli where I worked, there was a great big espresso machine, with a salt-filled water softener under the counter in a predictably inconvenient location. One day, instead of slowly losing potency, the water softener quit working spectacularly, and one customer apparently drove away with a cupfull of salt sludge mixed with a pinch of coffee. This is Not Good For Business. In any case, the machine came with a predictably ambiguous instruction manual. Some ways down the list, an apparently normal instruction read much like "Open the drain lever. Direct the small stream of water into the drain with the attached hose." I opened the lever. The slick hose ripped out of my hand under the much-much-higher-than-small-stream pressure of the water coursing through it, immediately sprayed saltwater into my eyes, and proceeded to whip about drenching everything. Insert flailing and fumbling here, accompanied by the sounds of my crashing chair, water splashing, and a hose knocking into things. I engaged in a blind handrace, much like trying to swat an alarm clock after waking up in a darkened salt-water shower, and I eventually found the lever and turned off the spout.