to play or not play with fire
Just a few minutes ago, three burly firemen, with all their equipment (axes, etc), walked into my kitchen, and one, reached out with his fireproof glove, and uneventfully unplugged my electric hot pot.
I was highly amused. In fact, it was the highlight of my day (my thesis sucks more than ever, and my advisor might actually be evil, or at the very least completely unreasonable…).
Editor's Note: I decided the explanation to the above was uninteresting, and thus commented it out. Feel free to use your imagination if you didn't manage to catch the story while it was up.
posted by Goldie @ 3:39 PM
5 Comments:
I always ask you if he is evil and you say no...
I was giving him the benefit of the doubt...
I mean, I'm not yet sure he is. We'll see his reaction on Wednesday when I tell him I can't accomplish the impossible, because it's simply impossible...
Not uninteresting, just somewhat...amateur. Not the post, you. Which may be a problem, considering that you're now supposed to be a professional. Masters of civil engineering usually are.
Anyway: a) did you mean to let us know that we can just view source, or did you not realize that you were letting us know this?
b)when I came to post this comment, and pressed view post for a quick reread, some magic happened. Check it out.
Oh, and yeah, my imagination did paint you a little more heroic..:)
a) I did realize, I actually checked it out myself to see what showed up, and it showed up as one long line, but i) I didn’t think my readers would be curious enough to actually bother to view the source ii) since it shows up as one long line when you view the source, I figured that would have made it way too annoying for anyone to bother reading it…
b) That’s really dumb of blogger…Thanks for telling me, I cut the commented text.
Oh, and yeah, my imagination did paint you a little more heroic..:)
:). I was going to take care of it myself, but you know what, I’ve become somewhat of a sissy since (for all practical purposes) I live alone. You never lived alone so you wouldn’t understand the feelings of seclusion it can induce. It’s kind of like if you’re alone in a forest and cry for help, will anyone hear you? Every so often (maybe twice a year) it scares me to be so isolated, and after feeling rather helpless in the face of an electrical fire that I had no means of putting out…
And although a small electrical fire may not kill me, I really didn’t have time to deal with any material damage or injuries to the self. And the truth is, when people are around, I tend not to be so careful. All the same, sorry to have spoiled the picture you had painted of me.
Not uninteresting, just somewhat...amateur. Not the post, you. Which may be a problem, considering that you're now supposed to be a professional. Masters of civil engineering usually are.
Actually it’s because I’m a professional that lead me to be more careful in this situation. Had I been an amateur, I probably would have pulled the plug without thinking and risked electric shock or fire.
I used my "analytical skills" to evaulate the situation:
1)I don’t know that much about electrical tape, and wasn’t sure it would have worked
2) If an electrical fire started, I would have no way of putting it out (I have no extinguisher)
3) I wasn’t sure whether current was still running through the exposed wires, and at the moment unsupervised electric shock therapy didn’t sound very appealing
So I decided to inquire for more information before acting. Is that not the logical and professional thing to do?
During one of my interviews, I was asked the question: if you inspect an inhabited building find it to be unsafe, what do you do? I correctly answered: evacuate the building immediately and then see what repairs can be made as quickly as possible.
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