Never mix paperclips and canned air. It’s a recipe for disaster.
There haven’t been any office supply and tetrafluoroethane related mishaps in our office, thank goodness, but I’m sure there are people out there who may be tempted to store their bent metal fasteners in that the little plastic straw that you get taped to the side of the air cans. All I can say is, if you forget that it’s there, it’ll come back to haunt you. Especially if you’re trying to blow dust out of a computer that’s still plugged in.
I’ve been doing safety stuff for the office, so things like that are weighing on my mind. We’ve got Hazardous Material declaration forms that need to go in, Fire Safety videos that we need to re-watch and any number of other little joys that you can experience if you’re working in a large building. I can understand that there are good reasons to know what kind of extinguisher you need to use for different types of fire, but I wish they could have made the safety videos just a little bit interesting.
I mean, between last week’s winemaking and the grilling over the weekend, I’ve had more exciting things happening in my kitchen and backyard than they’re showing in the videos. Oh sure, there’s the one part where they blast a flaming trashcan off of a surplus desk with a CO2 extinguisher, but that’s maybe ten seconds of excitement in a fifteen minute film.
I’m going to see if I can convince the administration that it’s time to upgrade these movies… I think I may be able to make a pitch that’ll let me re-shoot them with much better pyrotechnics, as well as better acting and script. Who knows? We could have next year’s summer blockbuster just waiting to roll…