Once
I licked a lightbulb when it was switched on.

I was 10, reading a book before going to bed, when I picked up the lamp (it was a clippy one that went just above my bed). I looked at it, like a child would stare into the sun in that curious way till it looks like a white pill in the sky (obviously done that too much too).

Then for some unknown reason I quickly and fluently took the biggest *lap* of it, right from the back of my tongue, to the front, like it was a melting ice cream. My tongue couldn't hack it. Screaming in obvious derision and the stupidity of my actions, I ran to the tap and posted myself to the cold water tap for the next 10 minutes.

As I fell asleep that night with mouth wide open, tongue protruded out, pool of saliva increasing around me, I was terrified I'd burnt all my taste buds away, and had become in essence, Dave Lister with only one taste bud.

Luckily, if you had seen my belly, you'll know I gained them back.
(1.21 Gigawatts, Thu 3 Jan 2008, 16:54, 1 reply)

Lightbulb
Ha ha ha ha! I succombed to the lightbulb temptation too. Must've been about 5 or 6... and I thought it would be great to draw on the lightbulb with my wax crayons, to see if it would throw pretty coloured shape shadows round the room. It didn't. Erm.
(canarynightlife "Some weasel nicked the cork from my lunch! ", Thu 3 Jan 2008, 22:17, closed)