I worked in a facility with a gate and fence and security guards. One morning, when I was going in for an overtime shift at 5:55 in the morning, I was hit by a car.
One of the janitorial ladies was speeding through the parking lot and she wore really thick coke bottle glasses and swore that I was hiding behind a tree that was about 3 inches wide at the widest part of its trunk.
That was a really bad experience for me because I got to share my displeasure very loudly with her to the point that a friend of mine at work told me later that he didn't know that I had been in the Navy. I told him that I had never been in the military, especially not the Navy. He laughed and said, you sure sounded like you had been in the Navy that morning when you got hit by the car.
Later that year when I was walking in the room where our operation did its thing I was walking on the raised floor portion of the room and I was observing some new equipment that had been put in for the other line of business in the building and admiring their handiwork.
As I walked along on the raised floor I didn't realize that part of the raised floor had been opened and there was a guy down inside the floor working. I stepped on his hand and fell down on top of him because I was busy looking over a short wall to admire the new equipment. He cushioned my fall and had to wear an arm brace for a little while but otherwise it was no big deal. But it was embarrassing because now instead of just people revving their engines at me in the parking lot I had to have people warning me about falling into holes in the floor the rest of that year.
So I started telling my people if they ever put up scaffolding in or around this building I'm probably not going to come in because I know it's going to collapse on me. Everybody would shake their head and laugh because they knew it was probably true.
I had a good time where I worked but those were some challenging moments.
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