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Tom, that reminded me that when I was in high school the cool thing to do was to cut the thread out of the bottom of your Levi blue jean pant legs & let them fray out over your cowboy boots. I got chosen to represent our ag mechanics glass in arc welding at the county contest. My turn came up to weld & about half way through my welding exercise I started feeling this strange heat sensation on my legs. I wanted to keep welding out out of fear that I would screw up my weld but the other side of me kept saying something's not right here. I stopped my weld & looked down & Both of my frayed out pants leg were on fire. Defiantly an embarrassing lesson learned.
I took some welding classes at a Community College across the street from the office I worked in at the time. One night after work I thought I'd go over and practice arc welding. Went over to my locker there, took off my suit coat and put on my fireproof coat and gloves. So I went in a booth pulled the curtain and started some welding. I worked on a weld and then went over to check it out in the main room. Well the nice suit was made of NYLON and my pants were ruined with what looked like 100 burn holes, patent leather shoes ruined. It was a stupid oversight and I could have caught myself on fire.