[TigersEye]

I was about four, maybe five, and my father was "helping" me build a model. I was lying on the floor while he was "helping" me and for some reason I had a straightened out wire hanger I was playing with. Thought I would test my dexterity by seeing if I could hold the wire steady enough to put the tip of it in the socket two feet away. I could. I did.

}}}ZOT!{{{

I cried out and Dad jumped up, scared and angry, and blurted out something like "WTH are you doing?" End of "helping" me with the model.

I don't think I even got a shock other than the shock of the flash, the noise, the light going out and Dad yelling at me. LOL

[Jamestown1630]

Well, you learned something valuable about a powerful and important force, didn’t you?

When I stuck my finger in the socket I was alone, and didn’t require any reinforcement from elders to teach me that to do so was probably a Bad Idea.

:-)