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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Ignoring instructions, procedure, the rules...I used to work as a volunteer in a community centre, teaching drama to kids. The rules on what you can and can't do with kids are incredibly strict - we were instructed not to touch them, be on our own with them, etc.
We were having our end of term party, and one of the kids had brought in a caterpiller cake (with smarties on and boggley eyes - it was really cool). We didn't have any cutlery, so I dispatched one of the kids to the kitchen to fetch a knife - on her own, as it doesn't take 2 people to carry a knife.
When one of the 'proper' staff found out about this, she went absolutely ballistic. Not because the kid was carrying a big sharp knife, but because to get to the kitchen, she had to walk through the reception area and back, and was thus ON HER OWN with the receptionist for about 3 seconds each way and 'anything could have happened' (WTF??). She threatened to report me and wrote it in the incident book.
The funny thing was, when I took 14 kids on a field trip and managed to return with only one, no-one batted an eyelid.
(, Fri 5 May 2006, 13:38, Reply)
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