I'm a detailer at a small dealership in northern Utah. At my place of employment, we have an air compressor that surpasses 100 PSI (or about 690 KPA for you non-Americans) that we use to inflate tires or blow off more stubborn dust that can't be vacuumed or wiped off. It's a very useful tool that has a lot of elbow room for goofing off. Keep this air compressor in your mind.
My sleep schedule has been absolutely boned up, so I've been getting 6 hours of sleep for the last couple nights. I took an effervescent energy drink powder that you dump in a disposable water bottle just to survive work today.
See where this is going?
After I finished off my energy drink, I did the exploding water bottle trick that we were all taught by that one friend (you know the one). Bottle was crushed, wasted little space. Seeing the new wrinkles in the bottle, I wondered if one could possibly smooth them out with enough pressure. I drilled a hole in the cap of the bottle just big enough for the air nozzle to fit. Like an idiot, however, I squeezed the trigger as far as it would go, instantly turning the 16.9 fl oz bottle to thicc boi 2 liter soda bottle size.
It was at this moment that Dave knew...he effed up.
The explosion was extremely loud, followed by difficulty hearing accompanied by a deafening ringing noise. It was so loud that my coworkers from the next bay over thought I had popped a tire! My hearing has come back in the 3 hours since, but the ringing is still in the background, I'm having mild headaches, and occasional dizzy spells.
TL;DR I found out the hard way that the movie trope of ears ringing after loud, sudden noises is not an exaggeration by filling a plastic bottle with 100+ PSI. Permanent hearing damage likely.
I (28F) got my first verbal warning from my boss.
So I suffer from horrific periods, they are just body obliterating every time. So it was brought to my attention that each month I take a day or two off to curl up in a corner and die. Which obviously not great. So, one morning I decided to do the compromise (I have a desk job in the back room of a retailer, no customer talks to me unless on the phone and all my other colleagues are dudes.) so once every two hours I head down with my hot water bottle and fill it up, also making coffees for everyone upstairs cause they have had to put up with my cramp groans and slight sobs (I wish I was joking)
So the third time I go down the boss comes down and says “Do you really think you’re being a team player right now? You have these every month you should be used to them by now. I don’t want to see you using a hot water bottle again. Those boys have to listen to you cry, think about them. Consider this your verbal warning. No more nonsense.”
And they left I was gobsmacked!
EDIT: Holy crap!! This post exploded out of nowhere. I have been trying to respond to as many people as possible with answers that you’re looking for. With a bit of digging this is a verbal warning and my “first offence” so I am going to talk with him and try to explain why it was not okay to single me out, and also a compromise should be registered as so that I am trying to do my best. If it doesn’t resolve I will take it further.
For everyone who has sent me DMs about the medical side of things, I am going to book an appointment with my OBGYN and see if all of your conclusions are correct. I’ve never been examined properly apart from smear tests and I’ve always been turned down and been waved away as just another painful period.
Seriously guys thank you so much for your support.
I've looked thoroughly in the user manual and there nowhere are they discouraging this action :[
Last night whilst watching tv my husband fell asleep on the sofa. Thought it would be unkind to wake him so I sneaked as quietly as possible upstairs to our king sized bed and slept diagonally whilst wrapped up in duvet. Bliss!! Until 3 hours later, husband woke up on sofa mimicking the iceman, came to bed and pulled the duvet from around me so I rolled to the edge of the bed then stuck his freezing feet against my legs. He doesn’t get why I snapped at him when apparently I was the one who abandoned him to get hypothermia.
Hi, I'm not a prepper but I have been following this sub for a long time. Maybe someday soon!
Anyway, I have 6 cases of water bottles that have been kept in a dark room over an un- insulated garage for almost 2 years. During the summers it got to probably over 100 degrees.
Are these water bottles safe to drink still? There was no sunlight, just a dark room, but it was probably at least 100 degrees in the summer. They are your typical plastic disposable water bottles.
I know it was stupid to store them there. The reason I bought them was because if I got covid or was exposed, my (unvaccinated!) landlady who lives downstairs where the kitchen was wanted to lock me upstairs for quarantine. I was worried about not having enough water and kept buying the water bottles. Dumb, I know. Thankfully I've been really careful and haven't gotten covid or exposed.
I'm finally moving out (!) and now I need to know if I should keep the water bottles or toss them.
Any help is appreciated, thanks
Son complained to grandparent he was cold at night, they have got him a hot water bottle.
I have never used one in my life. To be honest I am a bit scared of them!
I know they say not to use boiling water but what ratio to boiling/cold is required? How long to put them in the bed before he goes to bed? Do people sleep with them in the bed or take them out?
Does anyone actually use one every night?
Please help someone out who feels such an idiot they don’t know these things.
