Dave's Funny News For the Week
This week was an interesting week at work. I missed not one, but two bullets: Just to share quickly:
- Monday, driving at 70 mph through a construction zone (with a posted speed limit of 45 mph), I became suddenly aware of a cop doing a u-turn right behind my car. I immediately hit the brakes and changed lanes. Thankfully, he got the guy directly in front of me instead (who I was using to set my speed to). Jeez, 25 over in a construction zone ... that would have been bad.
- And Friday: when the x-ray machine I was working failed to turn on, I got worried. Multimeter comes out, and I decide to check voltages (a new colleague had set up the wiring, and I had to check that he hadn't screwed up). In the process finding good point to check, my voltometer point slipped and touched a screw. This bridged the two phases, and sent 240V 20A of current through the multimeter tip and screw. With a blue flash and a loud pop, both are gone (the multimeter tip melted in half and took out a large chunk of the screw). While in shock, but not actually shocked I screamed "fuck" and sat down. My co-worker's thoughts on seeing my blackened ring finger were bad, but it was only an explosion of carbonified plastic and paint. I'll be more careful next time ....
- Monday, driving at 70 mph through a construction zone (with a posted speed limit of 45 mph), I became suddenly aware of a cop doing a u-turn right behind my car. I immediately hit the brakes and changed lanes. Thankfully, he got the guy directly in front of me instead (who I was using to set my speed to). Jeez, 25 over in a construction zone ... that would have been bad.
- And Friday: when the x-ray machine I was working failed to turn on, I got worried. Multimeter comes out, and I decide to check voltages (a new colleague had set up the wiring, and I had to check that he hadn't screwed up). In the process finding good point to check, my voltometer point slipped and touched a screw. This bridged the two phases, and sent 240V 20A of current through the multimeter tip and screw. With a blue flash and a loud pop, both are gone (the multimeter tip melted in half and took out a large chunk of the screw). While in shock, but not actually shocked I screamed "fuck" and sat down. My co-worker's thoughts on seeing my blackened ring finger were bad, but it was only an explosion of carbonified plastic and paint. I'll be more careful next time ....