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It is " shocking " but I learned a valuable lesson
So the other day I was all about showing how capable and helpful I am. I was holding up the old range hood that we were removing and waited for DH to fetch a certain tool from the basement so he could disconnect the little cover plate that hides the wires. o.k. la la la I am bored already.
While waiting it seemed to me that I could just slip the end of this butter knife under the edge to pry the cover down right?? I am not crazy enough to stick a metal object anywhere near live wires am I??
So I ever so gently poked the very end under the rim and BAMM!!!
SPARKS flew over my head! A few loud pops, the butter knife went flying outa my hand!
I stood there stunned....was I alive? Had I been shocked? I did not feel anything except the pounding of my heart, no tingling in my hands or anything. I felt all over my head, no singed hairs. I think I dodged a bullet....how stupid of me?!
DH came up in a hurry looking worried, then saw my ashen face and said..." what'd ya do? " I showed him the knife. He went back down and turned off the power and politely banished me from the kitchen.
Here is what the knife looked like front and back.