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At least this one ended with a better outcome.
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Yeah you don’t want to Matilda your phone. I misplaced mine and could sign into the BBS for years!
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“If you ever drop your phone down a narrow crevice, just let it go. Because, man, it’s gone.”
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The impulse to grab for a dropped item is very strong. I once dropped some tongs into a deep fryer and my fingertips hit the oil and bounced back before I realized what was happening.
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I refuse to lower myself to posting the Captain America gif, but I do want to give you a hand for that deep thought, jack.
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Nope nope nope…
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Very early in my electronics career I spent a couple of years working in the chemistry lab of a large company - most of the work was electronic circuitry related, thin film coatings, electroplating and the like.
Steve, one of the heads of department, was a character - we were in labcoats, he had loud Hawai’ian shirts. Absent minded too: I once saw him go to take out a component that had been etching in hydrofluoric acid with his bare hands - he stopped when I said his name loudly, looked down and went ‘oh, yeah’ then got some teflon tweezers instead.
He may have just been winding up 18 year old part-time student me, but… 
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I have a rather large scar on the thumb of my right hand by “catching” a broken coffee cup when I worked as a dishwasher. cup broke on the bench, so I picked it up to drop in the bin under the bench. Because it was wet it slipped and reflex took over. 7 stitches later and I could use my thumb again, but I will never get full feeling back.
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Let it go…
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