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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If it isn't broken...Whilst working in a lab I had the very dull task of running samples through a very very slow separation technique. It took forever as it involved passing flid through a separation column at very slow speeds. I decided it couldn't hurt to speed things up (in spite of a nice big red warning sign saying "do not adjust speed of flow") so started to dabbble.
Result:
All samples worthless and needed resubmitting. Cost: about a thousand quid).
Separation column ruined (becaus the delicate contents collapsed under the four times pressure), about 2 thousand quid.
Detector at the end of the column ruined (because the former contents of the column filled it and broke it), around 13,000 quid.
Ooops... anyone have a P45 handy?
(, Sun 7 May 2006, 22:56, Reply)
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