Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for January 15, 2022

Darwin award nominee

It is never a good idea to wait until you need it to learn about emergency aids.

A good case for YouTube Premium. Sometimes it’s a good thing to pay for what you don’t get.

Squeeze trigger. Wait, this pin is blocking the trigger. Oh great, I got a defective fire extinguisher.

We had instruction and practice once a year at work…

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Class C (electrical) fire: 1. Shut power2. Using appropriate extinguishing agent so marked for Class C (presumably in your hands presently) pull pin.3. Use burst, sweeping side to side until fire extinguished.4. Monitor for flare ups; reintroduce extinguishing agent as necessary.

Looks like a toaster oven. The one we have says to unplug if the contents ignite. Sure. I’m going to reach behind a flaming electrical appliance to grasp the electrical cord and unplug it.

Whatever happens, it ain’t gonna be pleasant in that kitchen for along time.

I was buffing floors in a 5&10 store as a teenager when the floor polisher caught fire. There was smoke and flames pouring out. I went into panic, first freezing, then trying to think. Finally it occurred to me to pull the plug. I unplugged it and looked around to see how much panic and carnage there was. No one had even noticed, there wasn’t even noticeable smoke in the air. My whole panic routine was likely one to two seconds. The weird part of this is when I reported it to my manager, his reply: “yeah, that thing’s pretty old, it does that sometimes. Plug it back in and see if it still works.” It still worked and I used it many times after that without further incident.

The ‘Skip’ button can’t come up soon enough.

We have two fire extinguishers in our house: one at the door between the kitchen and garage (the most likely place to have a fire) and the other in the hallway upstairs about 12 feet from the furthest bedroom.

I think it’s done now.

Usually there are good pictorial instructions on a home fire extinguisher. They start with “call 911”. It’s too late to read the instructions during a fire. Practice going through the steps when you first buy the extinguisher.

This is why THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE PRINTED ON THE DEVICE, IN LARGE PRINT!!!

I attended firefighting school while in the U.S. Navy, so I know how to operate a fire extinguisher.

P – pull pin____

A – aim at base of fire

S – squeeze trigger

S – sweep from side to side

PASS!

We had a call from a customer about a computer that wasn’t working. They said the lights dimmed, it went dark, and it let out some smoke. We went in and pulled the cards. One had failed badly. There was no damage to the 2 adjacent cards, the connectors or backplane, or the 1500 watt power supply. We replaced the card and it ran. That was a blessing of overengineering and qualifies as a UL standards equipment failure.

Is the ad for Zippo?

Ever notice that on YouTube, every 30 second video has a one minute ad before it?

There needs to be a video on how to put a grocery cart into the grocery cart corral.