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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Fun and Games with Chemistry"if any gas in generated, do not inhale"
another student in the class decides to inhale and discovers the intense pain that rapidly condencing Hydrochloric Acid has on your sinuses when you inhale it.
he then had a hose inserted in his nose for about 45 minutes cycling water through it to rinse them out before spending the night in Hospital.
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same class, different experiment.
this time, we had to cunduct the experiments outside with portable bunsens, ours turned out to be faulty (no, really).
it exploded, and though no one was injured, it did set a fairly decent size patch of grass alight, so we put it out using the distilled water bottle we needed for a later stage of the experiment.
our teacher protested that this wasn't proper use of distilled water, and we were banned from conducting experiments for the rest of semester for not following instructions.
the principal found out, and immediately reinstated our experiment participation and reprimanded the teacher. we were then given awards for quick thinking.
sometimes not following instructions is a good thing, though i'm sure we'd have pleased more people if we'd let the block burn down.
(, Fri 5 May 2006, 8:23, Reply)
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