Glass story Two

The undergrad that works with me in lab accidentally got two pieces of glassware stuck together this morning that she was planning on using to do a reaction. She couldn't get them unstuck, so she left them sitting there while she went to lunch and figured she'd deal with it after. I then saw them and decided to try to get them unstuck myself, so I pick them up and try to turn one of the pieces to loosen it, but the second I try, the whole thing shatters under my (apparently) super strong death grip.

I shouldn't be allowed to touch glass ever. Also, if I hadn't been wearing goggles there would be a piece of glass in my eye and I would be writing this post from the emergency room.

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Glass story One

So last night at trivia we were all having a grand old time, hanging out, sucking at trivia, drinking a few beers. I'm holding my 75% full glass in my left hand about 1.5 inches off the table, when all of a sudden, my grip loosens, and the glass slips and hits the table. Now, usually when things hit tables from a few inches away, nothing happens. Maybe the glass tips over and some sloshes out, right? Worst case the whole things falls over and you lose your beer. NO. Instead, the glass COMPLETELY SHATTERS, spewing beer and tiny shards of glass in every direction. No, not even every direction, in fact, most of it landed on Frances, the one person in our group who hadn't had a single beer all night and who now is soaked head to toe in it and smells like a drunk. After picking the bits of glass out of our hands and gathering napkins to clean up the mess, I hang my head in shame and mutter to myself...

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