Place: house party
It's near the tail end of the night, everyone's feeling pretty good by this point. A classmate and I go out to his garage for talks, and in the process he points out that his clothes dryer is messed up. It's old and isn't grounded anymore so when you touch a specific region on its top it sends a pretty substantial shock at you. This jars loose a memory... *flashback wavy lines*
Time: High school days
Place: Modesto
A buddy of mine is taking electric shop class as an elective. He's brought an extracurricular project to school today based on what he's learned. It's a sleek black case, with a red button on top that lights up when pressed. At its bottom jut out two large paperclips such that if you touch both at the same time and press the button it shocks you. Under the hood are a few 9 volt batteries. We quickly realize that if I touch one paperclip and you touch the other, and we're touching each other, the shock will travel through both of us. This daisy chain grows to ~10 people or so.
*Back to the pharmer party*
I relate this story, and soon drunken professional students are shocking themselves in long daisychains in a cold garage in Vallejo.
Time: Later pharmacy school years
My friend from back home buys the strongest taser made (at the time) for home defense purposes. But, whoops, he and his wife now have a bebe on the way so they don't want it in the house. It's gifted to me. Repeat the same story macro from above, but with big boy power now. Also, through trial and error, we learn that tasing through clothing (as opposed to directly on the skin surface) is counterintuitively more pain, since the electricity has to arc through the distance of the cloth. This results in superficial burns at the contact points.
Shocking, right?
