Ignoring InstructionsWhen I was small, a friend of mine waved a big plastic bottle at me and asked me if I "wanted some drinking yoghurt?" I pointed out the "do not drink" label, but no, he was convinced this was a big jug of a particularly strange, liquid yoghurt that was briefly popular in the 70s.
He was sick for hours, after consuming a suprisingly large quantity of washing liquid.
What instructions have you ignored?
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chthonic, Thu 4 May 2006, 11:24)
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chemistry teachersI had two chemistry teachers, one of whom was a bit slapdash to say the least - Mr Olec. The other was OK - he was quite a laugh, but also relatively sensible - Mr Harrison.
At the beginning of the course, Mr harrison gave us a short list of rules never to break. One of these was to always turn on the fans of the fume tanks when working with dodgy chemicals, and another was that if you can smell almonds leave the classroom at once, as it's probably cyanide gas.
Apart from always forgetting to turn on the fume tank fans and therefore filling the room with, for example, purple smoke, one occasion comes to mind...
Mr Olec was teaching us when a very strong smell of almonds came wafting through from the lab technicians room. We all got up to go, and Mr Olec said "where the hell do you think you're going?"
I tentatively put my hand up and pointed out we could smell almonds. "So what?" I explained about the cyanide gas thing, and he said "oh, it's probably OK - nobody leave or they'll fail their practical."
Still, no-one died so I guess he was right.
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