It is " shocking " but I learned a valuable lesson

[walkonby]

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.

[bargain_hunter_lola]

Oh my gosh! So scary! Glad you're okay! Keep safe and stay away from live wires! lol


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[abbasgirl]

Yikes! I'm glad you survived!
My Mom has those knives! None of hers have been burned to a crisp though.

[acosta]

Ohhh nooo!!
Lesson learned!
Yikes!

[avoncallingu]

OMG Walks! It's funny how quickly we can act on impulse without thinking! So glad luck was on your side! (Lol, Acosta, I'm sure my mum had that pattern as well.)

[angel_2011]

oh dear walks! glad ur okay!

[Anna Michele]

Omg u silly girl glad u r ok

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[walkonby]

thanks for the concern peeps, you know what? That knife was from an old set my MIL gave us! lol

[Candini]

Scary! Glad you are ok!!

[Natalka]

Oh, WOB, I'm so glad you are okay.

Sparky my electrician husband has taught me never, ever to touch anything like that!
He's been shocked many, many times, though - sometimes I don't even want to hear his stories.
I'll ask, for example, why in the world he would work with live wires/power quite often (when he has options to turn it off)? His answer: it's more of a challenge that way. (gah!)

[Lynn49]

Oh, my dear Walks.....thank God you 're okay! If it helps, I know I've done dumb things like that, but have only been shocked once. Lesson learned, right, my Friend?

[Kitty77]

Walks, glad you are ok and didn't get shocked, you were so lucky!!
Good reminder and Lesson learned always turn the breaker off in the electrical panel before doing a repair.

[GoJays]

[madchives]

couple of points - that is not a butter knife as they do not have a serrated blade,
and why (thank goodness) did you have a knife so nearby?
so glad you did el silly one
next time i get my hood up,,,,

[hollyquaiscer]

OMG walks......seriously....I don't mean to laugh but I can just see you with Frankenstein hair and smoke raising from your head. I'm soooo very happy that you're ok and nothing serious happened, well with the exception of the cost of the burial for what looked like a perfectly good butter knife.........



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