I am stupid......

[PARAGON]

Had to do a little work on my truck today so I took the brushguard off the front that has 4 PIAA lights on it. They each have connectors that I simply unplugged so I could remove the brushguard.

Anyway, later I'm putting the brushguard back on my truck and one of my plugs for my lights was up in behind the grill. I stick my left hand with watch on the wrist in the grill slot second from the DS end and grab it and go to pull it back out and ...... my f'ing hand won't come out. I am caught in a freaking Hummer hand trap. Apparently my wrist with watch on it will easily go in through the slot but will not come back out. How the hell did I not see this coming.

So, I can barely get one finger from my right hand ( no one else is home or nearby) in the last slot back around and over to my watch band. It has the regular deployant clasp with a little fold over lock on the end. I got the fold over open but couldn't get the damn clasp undone. It would not freaking open. Thinking it was just gunked up from not being off in a while, I would pull on it, nearly ripping what little of my fingernail I had and it wouldn't budge. So I'm standing there with my left hand stuck in the front of my white Hummer in front of my house not sure if I want or don't want a neighbor to walk by.

I sat (or stood) there for the better part of 30 or 40 minutes. I attempted to break the damn grill slot where my arm was but it felt like my arm was going to break instead. Of course the hood is open this whole time as well and I am trying to make sure I don't push too hard to make it close or that would really have been a bad deal. It is amazing what little articulation you realize you have. Of course, since my left shoulder has been operated on and does not rotate very well, I really couldn't move much. Couldn't get to a tool on the ground, nothing. I WAS able to pull a piece of pine straw out of one of the radiator fins while my stuck hand way up in there. That's about all I could accomplish.

Anyway, I am in there reaching again with my finger and I feel this little ridge on the side of the clasp. THE DAMN THING HAS TRIPLE LOCKING. I forgot it had a little button on the sides you pushed to release. I force one side up against the back of the grill and push the other side in with my finger while pulling on the clasp and voila, the damn thing came undone. I pull my arm out letting the freaking watch slide off and stay in the grill. I go inside, sit down and grab something to drink and try to decide if I'm going to tell anyone how freaking stupid I am.

I'm still trying to decide.