Re: pressure cookers was Re: Need recommendations on security

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>
> Let me see.  Get two wooden pencils and a pair of scissors.  [A pair of
> my mother's favorite scissors.]  Open the scissors with the pencils in
> the finger holes and then carefully close the scissor blades onto the
> two barely exposed prongs.
>
> Snap!   Pop!   Sparks!  Lots, but they didn't last long.  Permanently
> damaged scissors and plug prongs, fan quietly coasts to a stop, power
> off in the house as the old fashioned fuse blew.
>
> From somewhere else in the house, "Miii - kuuuul!   What are you doing
> now?  Are you all right?"
>
>
> That would be the same lady who had to climb to the top of a windmill
> amidst the whirling blades and changing vane in high and variable winds
> to fetch me down when I was really really little.
>

You really were a rotten kid :-) This beats my brother, who my mother found 
sitting in the middle of the railroad tracks 1/4 mile down the street when 
he was 3 or 4 years old. And no, no one knows how he got out of the house. 
And yes, my parents moved from NYC to the burbs to try to keep the children 
safe after he escaped from the carriage at 2 years old and we had the police 
and whole neighborhood out looking for him. And BTW "protective mother" 
doesn't even begin to describe my mother's general approach to kid raising 
so his "escapes" required a level on cunning generally not seen in kids that 
age  :-)

So tomorrow is Mother's Day .... remember your mom! (and it's also my 
birthday -- yes I was born on Mother's Day and my daughter was born on Labor 
Day :-)



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