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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Don't throw fireworksWhen I was about 8 we had the usual family fireworks do, launching rockets, watching catherine wheels and holding sparklers. But we also had some bangers (which I guess you just don't get anymnore so I shall explain for the children - small crayon sized sticks of explosives with the blue touch paper at one end). Now bangers were simple, you lit them and they went bang. So you had to do one of two things to make them more amusing:
1. Drop them in a tin can and watch it bounce around
2. Light the touch paper and throw them.
Now it clearly says not to do this, and my mum said exactly the same thing, but being 8 and liking the excitement I did it anyway.
All was going well until one quite simply exploded in my tiny hand.
But because my Mum had told me not to do this I couldn't make a sound and certainly not tell her what had happened. So I bit my lip, saw through the festivities and eventually went to bed with some mionr burns to the whole of my hand. I think it was a couple of days before she found out.
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HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 4 May 2006, 21:02,
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