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[spatch]

The little packet of string cheese I got today has the following message for us all:
SAFETY FIRST! OPEN WITH HANDS, NOT TEETH

The bottle of apple juice warns me:
DO NOT REUSE
and also:
SE HABLA ESPANOL
But that's the only Spanish on the bottle.

The chocolate milk bottle advises:
KEEP REFRIGERATED

Sadly, the box of paper clips has no rules or warnings, though it helpfully tells me the clips are ZINC-COATED. There's not enough room either to write in your own caveats, such as NOT FOR USE IN ELECTRICAL SOCKETS. So consider yourself warned: if you use these paper clips, you're taking your life into your own hands.

Comments

[oonh.livejournal.com]

There was a extremely old extension cord that I played with when I was much younger. I'd put two paperclips in the sockets, twist them together, stand back, and plug it in and watch it go 'foom'. I probably could have used eye protection.

[orionsmom.livejournal.com]

Wow! That beats my best friends little sister who cut the stereo wires with a pair of scissors.

[oonh.livejournal.com]

The sparks were very pretty.

[spatch]

I blew a fuse in kindergarten by unfolding a brad fastener and sticking it into an outlet. I remember a pop and the lights went out and the subsequent 4-year-old trauma that went with it, and then the janitor tied some string around the brad and pulled it out before replacing the fuse.

Fun times.

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

My friend had a rabbit that chewed through the refrigerator cord. Sparks everywhere. It survived, but was never allowed out unsupervised again.