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To: Crocodile who wrote (41028)	11/4/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

One night I was making-- for the first and last time- garlic cheese grits. I had just taken them out of the oven and AMmo, who was about 1 1/2, reached up and pulled the Corning ware casserole off the counter onto his arm. He stood there screaming, with these boiling hot grits dripping off his little arm, so I threw him in the sink and ran cold water over him- all of him- I was NOT being picky. Put ice in a towel, called a neighbor for CW, and rushed to the ER. They said the cold water had saved him from the worst of it. For several weeks I had to take him in to have his arm debraded. (Is that the right word?) When they scrape the dead skin off? And he had a huge cast thing. BUt it healed without a scar. Ammo was my ER kid. By the time he was ten, it was like- oh ho hum, taking Ammo to the Emergency Room.

To: Crocodile who wrote (41028)	11/4/1999 7:24:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I was just looking at the list of stuff in that test tank--- muriatic acid! THat's the stuff we put in the pool- I have dissolved pantyhouse getting that stuff on my legs. And oil-- that's like frying your skin...yuk!! So now tell us about the guitar. Are you a folk singer? Or a classical guitarist?

To: Crocodile who wrote (41028)	11/4/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

You're the Greatest. We need to make a movie about you. Piece of cake. We just follow the instructions you write down in detail. eg, Plunged both hands right into the test tank with its soupy water (a tank filled with cold water...with a layer of oil, flux, muriatic acid, dead dragonflies, butterflies, etc...floating on top...) I know about test tanks too! They're hilarious. They always look like that. Everywhere, on The Planet. No Tivoli Fountain test tanks. No Brita Baths. I used to clean "The Parts Cleaner Tank." In the Giant Machine Shop. Because I wanted the parts cleaner tank to not be like a parts cleaner tank. It was a lonely, un-tender thing, to be a cleaning device, that works real good, and be CAKED with SLOP. I felt bad for it. Really. Now, the test tank ~ it's not really "worth" it, maybe that's the sensation, to change that. Just add water to the chem-geology; whatever process and history is going on in there. I had "Wander Around Making Improvements Whatever I Think" Authority; straight from The Man Jack; and crap, we had the only clean parts cleaner tank in effing history. See? Clean parts cleaner tank. It seems, dignified and respectful. Appropriate. Or, to most everyone else there, completely stupid. I did it, like, every TWO WEEKS. Cows Holy, uh? I think people, greasy pig-o-people, SECRETLY liked it. How did they lure you out of the office? Fresh air? I really felt bonded with that parts cleaner tank. It was green on the outside, where the solvent over-spray had left some.