Delusions of Grandeur

[Error: unknown template qotd]It didn't occur this year, but I think my brother should get an honorable mention or something. A year or two ago, he was designing his own version of your average potato cannon, and a bunch of his friends were helping him. He raised it and hit the trigger that would fire it, but nothing happened. He hit the trigger again. Again, nothing. So of course, my genious brother turns it around, and points the barrel, which is designed to propel a hefty potato 150 yards by means of a violent, fiery explosion, at his face. Murphy's Law kicks in, and the stupid cannon chooses that moment to finally go off. Aside from getting hit in the eye with a hot potato, he suffered burns across quite a bit of his face and burned off one eyebrow and a significant portion of hair. His school pictures from that year make him look like Gerard Butler as the Phantom of the Opera, only shorter and dorkier. His hair grew back fine, but his right eye (the one that got hit by the potato) is now significantly weaker than his left.

Of course, this is the same boy who consideres one of his main achievements in life to be accidentally lighting his butt on fire, and who once mis-fired a homemade catapult so that a 30 lb. chunk of concrete missed his best friend by about six inches and left a crater in our driveway that remains to this day.