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To: Salamander

One day decades ago I was coming into the kitchen and my little boy was standing in front of an island counter that had an outlet on the side - right at eye level.

In his small hands he had what looked like a bobby pin spread out just wide enough to contact the slots in the receptacle. As I yelled to stop him, his hand pushed forward and “blam, blooey, sparks and fireworks”......

He dropped it and started bawling. On his forefinger and thumb was the newly branded outline of where he held the bobby pin. I picked him up and hugged him and said “Bet you won’t do that again, will ya?”......sniffling, he said “nuh uh”.


108 posted on 05/25/2015 2:19:51 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

110 can be so much fun...

Got burned when I was 8 fiddling with shortwave, and got burned again 10 years later breezing past exposed lines wearing a metal watchband.

Done lots of wiring, industrial, ... good to be careful...


110 posted on 05/25/2015 2:34:56 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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