Stupid Human Tricks #1: I punched myself in the nose with a steering wheel

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Yes, you read that right: I did indeed punch myself in the nose with a steering wheel. It wasn't an easy thing to do, but I guess I am just multi-talented or something. It started out innocently enough: A friend had an RV that had a bad turn-signal. I offered to fix it for him (this was several years back - older members may remember the days when I lived in an RV owned by a friend, then graduated to a camper, before finally getting a real place). To get to the turn-signal switch, first one had to pull off the steering wheel. Now, they sell tools made especially to pull steering wheels, but I didn't have one of those and couldn't afford to buy one, so I figured I would do it the old fashioned way; brute force. So I loosened the nut behind the steering wheel (in more ways than one!) and started pulling on it. Nothing. It wouldn't budge. So I started wiggling it a bit. And then pulled. Nothing. So I started wiggling the hell out of it (and it had a BUNCH of hell in it) while pulling...and I thought I felt it begin to give. "AHA!!!" I said to myself, "This is going to work after all!" So I keenly concentrated my will, tensed my muscles, and gave a MIGHTY pull! And it came off. And smacked me right in the nose. But other than a slightly bruised nose (and a severely bruised ego) I did get it to come off. Oh...about fixing it...the guy had to order a new part, and he never got around to getting it, so...