I took a jolt!

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Art_Weingartner

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Damnit!

This morning my wife said "will you look at the fuse in that table lamp - I've replaced the bulb and it still isn't working"

So, I leant down and over the table to unplug it, touched a live, exposed wire, and took a jolt - but I'm okay. I swear I felt to see if my fillings were hot.

Anyway, my daughter's guinea pig has been nibbling the friggin' wires! Scum barking rat! I may have to catch him and staple his mouth shut! LOL

Nah, he's okay. But jeez...I took a real belt from the lamp wire.
 
Well, If he keeps chewing those wires, he might just take care of the problem for you. LOL that you would check your fillings. Did your wife have the smelling salts? Good thing you weren't up on a power pole. Next time you need to get all dressed up for the job. put on some covealls, a tool belt, and a hard hat, grab the bolt cutters and then go in to check the wire. Your wife will think you have gone off your rocker, but that would be hilarious.
 
LOL LOL that would be cool. "Aren't we a little...over dressed?" "No no leave this to me...I'll take care of this with one click of the snips" *looks at cat* "right, Captain?"

I have to say though...that's my third jolt. The first was around 1996-1997 when I was replacing a belt on the washing machine? I swear I turned the power off....but I obviously hadnt...man...I quivered with that one.

Then, some of you burbanites may recall, when I moved into my house in 2001, my dad and I were replacing wiring? Again...I thought the power was off LMFAO!!! but it wasn't...I really took a hell of a big jolt that day...My wife said "Oh my God are you okay?" I said - and I swear - "Yeah...Im alright...I took a jolt but Im okay"

Jeez Im glad Im not an electrician!
 
"Smells like they're cooking a @$%$@ guinea pig over there!" But seriously, jolts are fun to laugh at but not fun to take. I've taken enough that I scream over static discharging off my sweater now...
 
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"Smells like they're cooking a @$%$@ guinea pig over there!"<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>

hahahahaha! I used to have 2 guinea pigs. They chew everything! But I love them none-the less. I have so much electrical cord tape on all my stuff. :)
 
[quote My wife said "Oh my God are you okay?" I said - and I swear - "Yeah...Im alright...I took a jolt but Im okay"

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Absolutely true too. I was threading some wires down to my dad under the floor boards as we were adding some double sockets. Im sure I switched the electric off.....Boy...I quivered with that one. Lisa was next to me and really concerned said "Oh my God!! Are you okay!?" I stood up...said "Yeah...I'm alright..." then started to walk off towards the fuse box to switch it off! and muttered "...I took a jolt but I'm okay"...
 
Get this. Friday a guy my wife works with came in and told my wife that his wife (now they know that we know that they know) had broken a light bulb off in the overhead light fixture. He had gotten the needle nose pliers and tried to remove it only to take a pretty good shot of electricity. I immediately asked her if she had asked him if he had taken a jolt, thinking of this thread. She said no, he wouldn't have understood. These kinds of things are happening all the time right under our noses.
 
AH..that's to funny. My niegbor does things like that all the time. He's out in the back yard zapping himself or blasting crows with his kids pellet gun. I'm getting a scope to I can watch.
 
Dan, those pliers really should have rubber insulation on the handles. How neglectful of your wife not to ask him lol - even if he hadnt realised...she would... thus the funny side would have been passed to you then to us! Like my jolt, we could all smile at the near death experience of DIYers...
 
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