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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mum spent the whole day telling me food that came out the oven was hot...so, curious about exactly how hot 'hot' was, i put my hand flat against the boiling-fat turkey on christmas day.
i was 6.
although i was a little bit older still when I decided to throw away the instructions for the mercury thermometer (for some reason thinking it worked like those tabs-against-your-forehead thingys) and, for the benefit of international science of course, find out Exactly How Hot Steam Is by holding it over a boiling kettle.
it exploded and left mercury all over the kitchen. I made out it had been left on the shelf above. mum believed me, and until 5 years ago when my parents had the kitchen done, you could still find little bits of it in the back crevices of the food preparation surface. eek.
my brother and dad refuse to read instructions, doing the whole 'we'll figure it out for we are MEN' thing. which eventually meant i would end up staying up to the wee hours dismantling and putting together whatever item (be it toy, furniture or OS) they had gotten bored with and walked away from. every. single. time. i still get calls from mum to come over and help, even though i will now have my man in tow, who will extend the process further before i can get a look-in to fix it.
my favourite instructions were on a japanese-made frying pan my mate's dad bought that said 'please not to burn the bum'. how true those words are even today.
(, Fri 5 May 2006, 9:18, Reply)
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