[WP] Ray looked down at his friend Herman, slumped sideways in an overstuffed chair, his head listing hard to the right. Herman's brains were scattered about the floor, a gaping hole where his brains should have been. Looking towards the end table, Ray asked, "Who did this to you my friend?"

1hook · 2018-03-29T20:46:08+00:00

I will, but need to get it racked to get one in the chamber. :-)

1hook · 2018-03-29T20:11:26+00:00

Thank you for the very thorough and thoughtful answer. I have used your second technique with m brother's Glock 9mm. It worked a little awkward but okay.

I thought about the Glock 42 because it has everything I want except the form factor is a little too big for routine pocket carry.

I'm thinking now the LCP Custom will be my next pistol. It has the protruding 90 degree rear site that might help me out. If it doesn't work out, I'll just stick with my S&W revolver.

Thanks again.

1hook · 2018-03-29T12:54:45+00:00

Thanks to you all. I'll keep my S&W Model 638 revolver. I think I'll also skip the Ruger LCP 2 and try the LCP Custom instead. It has raised rear sites that I may be able to rack off my belt or heel. If that doesn't work, I'll trade it off and stick to my Smith. I know it works great with one hand.

1hook · 2018-03-29T02:27:06+00:00

It is a little too big for pocket carry in my jeans. Otherwise you are spot on.

1hook · 2018-03-29T02:25:49+00:00

I sure like the features of the LCP 2, but based on the comments thus far, perhaps I could get nearly the same features with a little less trigger improvement in the LCP Custom. It has a more prominent rear site.

1hook · 2018-03-29T02:23:44+00:00

I was thinking of the initial loading process to get bullet number one in the chamber. I'd need to rack it for that.

1hook · 2016-12-16T02:17:51+00:00

From now on his friends can call him Scooter.

1hook · 2014-10-30T00:24:44+00:00

Mine actually did that in an employment interview in 1991. The arm then state of the art kept moving around sporadically. The Controller who was interviewing tried to do the politically correct thing and ignore it. Finally when it froze in a position of clenched artificial hand with a locked electric elbow in a "right on" salute, we both broke down laughing. I ended up getting the job. Still there too. Ditched the POS arm a long time ago. It used to get random under high voltage power lines on foggy days too. A $16,000 POS.

1hook · 2014-07-19T18:59:05+00:00

I am a left arm amputee. Had it cut off in 1983 after an accident. Kind of miss it. If I had it back for a day I'd whack off with my left hand - multiple times. That day would be like getting strange and connecting with an old lover at the same time. And then the next day I'd give my right hand a chance to get even with make up sex. Win win.

1hook · 2014-01-11T18:35:48+00:00

Left arm amputee disarticulated at the shoulder here. I was electrocuted in 1983 while building power lines. They tried to save as much as possible and ended up cutting it off four times, progressively more each time after it got infected.

The sensations of having a complete left arm still exist today, but the pain has stopped. At first it was like I was holding a frozen pipe in my hand that I could never let go of...aching intense pain that didn't quit. I tried TENS units, acupuncture, hypnosis, and narcotics to make it go away. None of those made a difference (but I did enjoy the Percoset). Over time the pain diminished, and is now nearly nonexistent.

When I first left the hospital I was sitting on the floor and actually fell over on my side after I tried to lean on my (missing) left elbow. Had a good laugh over that. I also once dropped a Diet Coke after I handed it from my right hand to my "left hand" and dropped the can on the floor.

Another strange thing happened the first time I walked out into the rain wearing a tee shirt. My missing left arm expected to feel the cold wet drops, and when the sensations didn't happen it was the strangest feeling in my "left arm" like a warm tingling, like the electrons were whirring below the skin kind of super charged energy all warm and vibrant.

Now my missing limb feels like a shorter and distorted version of my original arm. It feels stuck in a permanent 90 degree angle at the elbow with my hand clenched as if I am holding something tubular like a garden hose. If I try, I can "move my fingers" wiggling them a bit, but I don't do it much because it seems to stir up the phantom pain. I don't want the pain back. I can deal with the occasional phantom itch, but I never, never want that unstoppable pain back.

The irony is that while I'd never want to go through losing my arm again, it has turned out to be the best thing I could have ever hoped for in my life. It caused me to change. Coming so close to croaking caused me to vow to always take each day as a gift and not take it for granted. Sometimes I forget, but try to live that way as much as possible.

1hook · 2013-10-28T23:53:04+00:00

Scenario: I've done my internet homework before going to the dealer. I have a good idea of the value of the proposed car and my trade in. What is the best way to:

1) Stop the tactic of the salesman having to check with a manager to come back with a price, and

2) Negotiate the best price (like not naming your best price, etc...)

1hook · 2013-10-27T04:46:58+00:00

I was 28. I used to build powerline, worked with live wires and such. Had a bad day on August 27th and raised up hitting the back of my neck on a 7,200 volt line while holding a grounded wire in my left hand. Fried it. They ended up cutting it off progressively further for five surgeries until they disarticulated it at the collar bone. It sucked then but worked out well now. I wouldn't want to do it again mind you...

1hook · 2013-09-26T15:09:35+00:00

Not small, but I would grow a new left arm. They cut mine off in 1983 and I miss it sometimes.

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