“These idiots would have gone bonkers over my old high school chemistry lab!!”
Ah the old science labs were rife with dangerous stuff, weren’t they? I remember in elementary school, our teacher taught us how to distill alcohol, and me and a friend promptly went home, set up the old home chemistry set, and tried to distill some brandy to make it stronger. Needless to say, heating brandy in a test tube over the stovetop did not result in the effect we hoped for :)
Reminds me of what an old Ph.D said once to some technicians, when one of his experiments exploded in the lab: “Well, that’s R&D. Clean it up.”