When I was a small child, like some small children do, I would watch my parents turn on the light and be amazed. I'd watch my father work on vehicles and see the screw drivers and think if I just plugged a flat head into a receptacle, the plastic end would light up just like a light bulb.
I asked my parents, they said no, don't ever do that, but I was so certain, I had to try, and sure enough, I very much got shocked. I was holding the metal part of the screw driver, not the plastic. It hurt, I cried, my mum yelled at my dad, and then we move forward until I was 20.
At 20, I was with the third girl I had ever been with, which was my second girlfriend (the second girl was more of a friends with benefits thing). Anyway, she had a son and left me one day. We had the perfect relationship. It was very much fake, but we each pretended to be what the other one wanted. That only could last for so long. When she left me, I was at a very low point in my life and decided I was going to move to Colorado.
My mum freaks out, calls my childhood best friend who lives in Florida to talk some sense into me, but instead, he talks me into going to Florida and said if it didn't work out, he'd pay personally for the trip to Colorado. Long story short, he was poor, turned abusive towards his girlfriend, she left him, he was worse off than me.
Anyway, one kid says he can take a screwdriver and put it in the receptacle and not get shocked. I bet 20$ he would. He put it in one port of the receptacle, didn't get shocked. Put it in the second, didn't get shocked. I said the receptacle was off. He plugged in a lamp, and sure enough, it worked. It was a 3-prong receptacle, not that it matters much. 15-amp I believe.
He said it was because he wasn't grounded, which makes sense to me...without ground, AC has nowhere to flow, right? If that's true, why do we have tamper resistant receptacles for houses with children, why did I get shocked as a kid, why did he not get shocked? I was on carpet. He was on rubber shoes, but surely carpet isn't grounded...My skin was more than likely on the carpet, but I don't see why that would matter....
I asked my parents, they said no, don't ever do that, but I was so certain, I had to try, and sure enough, I very much got shocked. I was holding the metal part of the screw driver, not the plastic. It hurt, I cried, my mum yelled at my dad, and then we move forward until I was 20.
At 20, I was with the third girl I had ever been with, which was my second girlfriend (the second girl was more of a friends with benefits thing). Anyway, she had a son and left me one day. We had the perfect relationship. It was very much fake, but we each pretended to be what the other one wanted. That only could last for so long. When she left me, I was at a very low point in my life and decided I was going to move to Colorado.
My mum freaks out, calls my childhood best friend who lives in Florida to talk some sense into me, but instead, he talks me into going to Florida and said if it didn't work out, he'd pay personally for the trip to Colorado. Long story short, he was poor, turned abusive towards his girlfriend, she left him, he was worse off than me.
Anyway, one kid says he can take a screwdriver and put it in the receptacle and not get shocked. I bet 20$ he would. He put it in one port of the receptacle, didn't get shocked. Put it in the second, didn't get shocked. I said the receptacle was off. He plugged in a lamp, and sure enough, it worked. It was a 3-prong receptacle, not that it matters much. 15-amp I believe.
He said it was because he wasn't grounded, which makes sense to me...without ground, AC has nowhere to flow, right? If that's true, why do we have tamper resistant receptacles for houses with children, why did I get shocked as a kid, why did he not get shocked? I was on carpet. He was on rubber shoes, but surely carpet isn't grounded...My skin was more than likely on the carpet, but I don't see why that would matter....
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