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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (14125)	10/30/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Safety Hurts: I woke up this morning, remembering a photo I saw while scanning some book reviews. This was from an industrial first aid manual, and captioned, "If you come across a person who's eye has popped out, don't try to put it back." Not to worry. I imagine safety-manual writers don't see anything funny in that. "This Is Not A Laughing Matter." Wanna bet? Why don't you write better captions then? It's no wonder I wake up remembering that. I can tell this manual wasn't written for me. "If you come across a person who's eye has popped out, be careful running away." A good thing about "eye occlusions", I suppose, it's that you probably can't see what's happening. You may have to feel around on the floor, though. And other people can see. Who's worse? Really. I haven't written a safety manual. Maybe you have to sit around taking everyone into consideration. You hear site-of-scene voices. "It's hanging by this little squid-cord, I'll just put it back." You're supposed, nay expected, to put like a styrofoam coffee cup over "it". That's what's in the photo. A guy on the floor with his dangling eyeball in a Lipton Cup 'O Soup container, taped to his head. "Make sure the cup is empty." "Don't flip scalding coffee all over yourself." "Do not 'tickle' eyeballs to make them dance." Well, I'm off to work now. Unless I can think of something else.