Electricity

(note: This entry has been sitting on my draftboard for some time. I didn't realize to finish it and post it until now when fatboy begged me to.)

I was reading Dominic Deegan today, and in today's strip two of the characters get hit by a lighting. Now, I know that this comic uses cartoon physics like every saturday cartoon but when a guy gets hit by a lighting and doesn't die my bells start ringing.

Maybe it's because I (willingly) got too many electrical shocks when I was a kid. 13 or something. Sticking nails into a plug was my greatest hobby. Good thing I was smart enough to use paper or something when sticking the nails into the plug. Then I lightly touched the nails under them so the gravity would help me to get my hand off before it's too late. I could actually feel the flow of the electrity flowing from my arm and reaching to my chest and heart. I just knew that when it hits my heart, I'll die. Luckily it never did. Aside from getting better reflexes, the effect from the electric shock was like a good dosage of coffee. My eyelids flew open, and I felt very happy. Like I was on drugs. I got kicks from it... Which was good, because I was very depressed at the time.

I tried iron and alumine nails and felt the conductive difference between the two metals. Alumine isn't as conductive as iron, so I could hold on it longer, and the electric shock wasn't so... Well, effective.

Anyway, don't get any ideas now. Just stick to the energy drinks and coffee. I believe they're much healthier than playing with electricity.