[...skillfully avoiding electrical terms...]
Me too. My husband has explained volts and amps to me a 100 times (maybe 99 times) and I know one kills, the other doesn't. I was shocked once when I was two. Stuck a bobby pin into a light socket. Zowie!
I tried that same trick when I was a child, but was stopped by the blood-curdling warning shrieks of my aunt. I was, however, able to experience the jolt from my dog's Invisible Fence collar many years later. Shocking, but not painful.
Volts: water pressure
Amps: water volume
Yes, it's the amps that kill.
Same here ... almost. My big sister gave me a hairpin and told me to plug it in. I did ... but survived. To this very day, I will not do anything she tells me to do! LOL
A person only does that once in a life time.