And like a fool hit the dark counter.
I now have a nice lump and not-quite-cut, but abrasion on my forehead. It looks so classy.
I don’t think I’ve ever hit my head hard enough to draw blood and that includes having a badly-nailed 2×6 fall on my head and hit nearly the same spot.
Brilliant, eh?
BTW, I put that new tab up with the Shejicon plans.
Ouchy! Hope it gets better soon.
when I lived in San Diego, we had counters on 3 sides of the kitchen. One of those counters separated the kitchen from the family room, and there were cabinets suspended above the counter all the way down its length. Now, I knew about those cabinets, did everything I needed to do in order to avoid hitting them, but about a year after moving into the house, I was doing something while standing at the end of the counter, and had to move in order to retrieve something or another…..hit my temple right on the lower corner of the cabinet where 3 dimensions met into a single point of pain. I completely understand how something like what happened to you could happen, and it still happens to me, once in a while.
I’m always afraid of leaving upper cabinet doors open, because I know invariably, I’ll walk right into one of them without having seen them, or I’ll be reaching for something in the lower cabinets and straighten up and bang my head into that upper cabinet door.
I have a galley style kitchen, range and refrigerator on one side, sink and dishwasher on the other side. When they redid my kitchen prior to selling this house, they put the refrigerator at the end of the counter in a space designed for it. The only problem is that the handle on the door juts out far enough that the door doesn’t open completely, and it makes it difficult to get to the crisper drawers at the bottom of the refrigerator or to pull them out to access or clean. If I turn the door to open from the left, then I’m faced with having to try to close a door in a space where I’m standing and can’t very easily get out. I’d have to step back (into the counter on the other side), and hope the door would let me squeeze by so that I could shut it. I don’t know what they were thinking……..
RE: the cack-hand(l)ed refrigerator, is it convenient or feasible to switch the handle and hinge? I have often been tempted to do so to our fridge, since the original layout conveniently allowed you to pile groceries on the counter, then transfer them into the cooler. The replacement fridge has the handle reversed, so not so handy any more.
the refrigerator has its own space, the south wall of the kitchen is on one side of it, and the counter next to the kitchen stove is on the other side. There is approximately 42 inches or so of space between the door and the counter on the other side of the kitchen. If I switch the handle and hinges, I would have to somehow open the door and still not get caught between the edge of the door and the opposite counter. There is no space to scoot to the left (away from the door) because the south wall is there. I’d have to maneuver myself around the edge of the door to get into the refrigerator, then maneuver back to get back out of there. I would be standing in a space about 3-1/2 feet by 3 feet when the door is open and my back would be up against the wall to let the door swing open or closed. Imagine the outline of this text box, the refrigerator is in the upper left corner of the box, facing the lower left hand corner and there is no more room.
Yep. Our kitchen, George Jetson vintage, is more like a hallway adorned with sink, dishwasher on one side, and fridge/range on the other. It’s convenient, but if you let down the dishwasher door, two people cannot walk through. One at a time. Ditto the fridge door: if it’s open, you just stand and wait til the other person closes it.
It’s a very efficient kitchen: I don’t have to do more than turn around to reach the other counters or cabinets. But it is a shade tight.
We used to have white countertops, but they were always coffee stained and dirty, so we got some dark fake granite that doesn’t show every breadcrumb and coffee drop.
I did something like that in my bedroom once. Was turning around to look at someone who was standing in the doorway, just as I was also bending over to get into a file cabinet drawer….and whacked the corner of a tall chest that stood next to the file cabinet. I still have a sort of triangular mark on my forehead right above my eyebrow. There’s nothing like the feeling of “D’oh!” that you get when you do something like that ;P
I think my feeling was ow! ow! ow! then doh!
Oh, yeah. Nothing like doing something like that, spectacularly not thinking, to yourself. Smack! Hey, there’s a wall / doorframe / cabinet (etc.) there! And hey, it’s been there for years, hasn’t moved a bit. So how did I just hit my head / foot / butt on that? Ow-ow, ai-ai-ai.
Makes one wonder about oneself sometimes.
Better, though, than someone else doing it to you.
You couild always claim you got into a fine old-fashioned bar brawl. Meetpoint maybe. Pell. Someplace suitably exotic.
“Well, Jones, you sure know how to show a lady a good time!”
“Let the Wookiee win.”
Heh. — Hope you feel better soon.
It’s so weird when that kind of thing happens, especially when it’s something you’ve done hundreds of times without incident.
I had something similar happen in the shower a few years ago, all jokes aside. I had leaned down to pick up the bar of soap I had just dropped and hit my head so hard on the wall soap holder that I saw stars. It gave me an amazingly impressive goose egg.
Thank goodness the soap holder was the plastic kind that is built into the tub surround, if it had been ceramic, I think I would have knocked myself cold.