I had a bad habit of touching the negative pole of a AA or AAA battery to my upper lip, and the positive to my tongue, and you can feel a bit of current and sort of gauge how much charge the battery had. One day I saw this mini battery for a camera just laying around. I did it without realizing it was an A23 12 volt camera battery. I literally saw lightning in my eyes and never did that again without making sure I wasn’t going over the usual 1.5 volt AAs.
I was installing lights once on a stepladder. Asked my girlfriend at the time, “can you switch off the fuse for the bedroom?”. “Sure thing!” was the reply. I got a massive jolt that spread down my body and rattled the ladder. Somehow didn’t fall. Just stepped down and processed a few things.
I had a bad habit of touching the negative pole of a AA or AAA battery to my upper lip, and the positive to my tongue, and you can feel a bit of current and sort of gauge how much charge the battery had. One day I saw this mini battery for a camera just laying around. I did it without realizing it was an A23 12 volt camera battery. I literally saw lightning in my eyes and never did that again without making sure I wasn’t going over the usual 1.5 volt AAs.
Edit for clarity
I was installing lights once on a stepladder. Asked my girlfriend at the time, “can you switch off the fuse for the bedroom?”. “Sure thing!” was the reply. I got a massive jolt that spread down my body and rattled the ladder. Somehow didn’t fall. Just stepped down and processed a few things.
Lights were on the fuse marked “lights” and she switched off the wall sockets?
so it was a misunderstanding between “sure thing” meaning “I’ve already done it” and “sure thing” meaning “I’m on may way to do it”