# Fun with a Geiger counter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-a-geiger-counter/982399 "2023-04-08T22:22:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-a-geiger-counter/982399/12 "2023-04-09T12:40:25Z")
Just test everything in your house before you use it: > [@No one has anything to say for an MMP?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-has-anything-to-say-for-an-mmp/971428/202): > > Have you ever woken up from a dream and just lay there a while trying to decide if the thing you were dreaming about had any basis in fact? This morning I finally decided that no, if there really were radioactive items in the house, I wouldn’t have just kept testing them with a geiger counter each time I wanted to use them. Nothing else in that thread about geiger counters. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-a-geiger-counter/982399)._