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The following is taken from a Florida newspaper:

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the

house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle

and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man, still holding the

handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door and along with the

motor-cycle dumped onto the floor inside the house. The wife, hearing the

crash, ran into the dining room, and found her husband laying on the

floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle laying next to him and the patio

door shattered. The wife ran to the phone and summoned an ambulance.

Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several

fights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics to her

husband.

After the ambulance arrived and transported the husband to the hospital,

the wife uprighted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas

had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some papers towels, blotted

up

the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet.

The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to come home.

After arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage

done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went into the bathroom,

sat

on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he

flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while still seated. The

wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband

screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband laying on the

floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on

the

buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin.

The wife again ran to the phone and called for an ambulance.

The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the

street. The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began

carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the

street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how

he husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started

laughing so hard, one of them tipped the stretcher and dumped

the husband out. He fell down the remaining steps and broke his arm.

Now THAT is a bad day...I hope you have a better day!!!!!!!!