Those who know me will know that there have been two important events occurring in my life this week. 1) Tiling my kitchen, and 2) Trying to buy a HP TouchPad.<\/p>\n
As part of tiling the kitchen, significant other wanted to replace all the standard white wall sockets with Stainless Steel ones to match the rest of the kitchen colour scheme. I was safely over half way through this task, having disconnected the socket mains supply, when a van pulled up bearing HP TouchPad goodness. Thus the next 30 minutes of my life was accounted for.<\/p>\n
Upon returning to the kitchen tasks I came to the Cooker 40A switch. I disconnected the ring main from the switch and proceeded to move the wires so that I kept the supply and load pairs apart when BUZZZZZZ and 240 Volts of high energy goodness shot through my hand and up my arm.<\/p>\n
Yes folks, TouchPad caused me to forget to flip the cooker ring circuit in the fuse box.<\/p>\n
Cue me jumping back, dropping tools and collapsing to the floor in a bout of Arrrrgh.<\/p>\n
Wife said “Stop it, you’ll scare the kids.”.<\/p>\n
Kids run in asking what happened and wife explains that Daddy electrocuted himself.<\/p>\n
Six year old Lauren asked “Could you see his bones?”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Those who know me will know that there have been two important events occurring in my life this week. 1) Tiling my kitchen, and 2) Trying to buy a HP TouchPad. As part of tiling the kitchen, significant other wanted to replace all the standard white wall sockets with Stainless Steel ones to match the … <\/p>\n