Yep, something I also alluded to.

While I revel in the wonders of today's electrical profusion, there is no sensation that I dislike more than being zapped. I would rather have a broken bone than to take juice like some I've been hit with before.

One of my biggest frustrations at home is that while I am probably the least user of extension cords, I seem to be the only one that will put them away or otherwise care for them properly. I've come close to pitching the whole tangled mess in the can a couple times.

Amprage kills NOT voltage. Your lucky

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Guess I have been lucky, amperage wise, my entire life, 'cuz I have been zapped by 110v more times than I can remember. Once my ex heard it, and I wasn't even feeling it. I used to max out those little electric gizmos at penny arcades, the ones where you grab a handle and twist it, increasing the juice you are feeling...

Not much luck to it. A lot of us have been bit by household. It isn't a tenth the deal most people make it out to be; you have to have torqued off multiple gods for it to kill you unless you are standing in water.

It only takes a few milliamps of electricity traveling though your heart to kill you. If you are playing with electricity and you know the lines are hot or you have not bothered to check, make sure that the electric path though your body is not though your heart.

And 110v shocks are not that uncommon, like OBG i have been hit more than i will admit to. It's enough to wake you up, it might be bad enough to make you say a dirty word. The shock that makes me really jump is once in a while i get zapped by the high frequency on the tig welder, that ranks up there with makes you squeal like a little girl. But even the high frequency is not bad unless i am well grounded. One of the showoff things that tig welders do is make sure that you are NOT grounded and turn the torch around in your hand and aim it at one of your fingers. Then touch the pedal, you can see the electricity dance between the torch and your finger. It feels like little pin pricks, and it makes for wide eyed engineers.

Hardest I ever got zapped was by a lawnmower. Old fashioned one, it had a little metal gizmo that you flipped up against the end of the sparkplug to shut the mower off. Once, and I was standing on a wet sidewalk to make things worse, I took my usual swipe at the thing and missed, hitting the end of the sparkplug instead. Now THAT hurt!!!

Setting the points on the 68 ford fairlane, with my bro working the key to turn the motor so I could set the gap. I forgot to get outta the way one time when I said to hit it, and all I saw was stars for a while.

I did that to dad once helping him work on his mustang and he darned near beat all the tar and stuffing outta me after he got up off the ground.

The nasty ones are when I've been installing the whip on a cop radio and my "assistant" keys the radio while I am holding the metal rod. That rf goes right to the bone quick. That burn took two months to heal up right.

Sometimes I think me and my old radio buddies probably resembled some of those Earnest P. Worrell commercials. Know what I mean, Vern? or maybe a Tim Taylor tooltime event.

OBG, You didn't have to bring that up. Have done the same thing, sweaty hand slipping off of the little metal grounding clip. But getting zapped by a lawn mower plug many years ago made me very careful when i moved up to working on car ignition systems.

Have a friend of mine that was popped by one of the modern automotive hei systems told me that he wasn't sure which was worse, that or getting hit with a taser. (Getting hit with a taser was part of his LEO training) He said that both put him on the ground.

You want to talk hurt, my dad used to work on monster engines in a gasline compressor station. By monster I mean pistons that are three feet in diameter. They had a magnito that would put you on the floor instantly...

I'm not saying kissing a light socket. I'm saying if you get bit you get bit, it's not the instant kill you dead right there thing that a lot of people seem to make it out to be.

There is reason why I use my right hand when playing with wiring, even though I'm left handed, unless I threw the breaker myself and then locked the box with the one (1) key in my pocket. :P