On 2014-10-25 19:21, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 10/25/2014 10:17 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
Har! My first memory as a kid was sticking each end of a bobby pin in an electrical outlet! I can still see the shower of sparks! I must have been about 3-years old.
I stuck some scissors. We were in a hotel in Madrid, which happened to use old 125 volt wiring, instead of the 220 we had at home. I was "grabbed". My mother tried to pull me off and was seized as well. My father chanced to be in, and he used a towel to pull us both. I have no recollection of the incident at all, they told me about it years afterwards. I do remember the pain on other occasions when touching 220 volt cables or plugs, accidentally, not "intentionally" as the first time. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)