Heh! I worked at a social services agency and one of the workers was asked to see, on her lunch hour, a poor old lady who walked in off the street without an appointment. She sighed, said of course, and into her office comes this old, old woman with a walker, gray head down, dressed in scarves and wraps and a hat and a big old fur coat. And big dark glasses because of her cataracts. She sat down and began jabbering away in a foreign language, weeping with distress, wringing her hands. The social worker got up to hand her a tissue and was shocked to the point of cardiac arrest when the old woman grabbed her boobs and pulled her off her feet onto her (old woman’s) lap! It was her fiancee, and we were all in on it, and it was the best April Fools Day joke EVER!
(I can still remember her yelling, “Help! Help!”) So it can be done!..well, it was funny at the time…
My mom’s house was built around 1985 and she has kitchen doors. The doorway is the standard width, but the doors themselves are skinny double-doors. You can eat at the kitchen table in the kitchen, the double-doors open into the dining room.
Holding a lit lighter near a sprinkler head and activating every sprinkler in the building. I’ve never seen that.
Probably because that just doesn’t happen - only the sprinkler head that reaches a certain temperature will activate - not ALL of them.
It’s even worse when somebody turns all the sprinkles on just by pulling the fire alarm. I’ve seen a couple of shows/movies where this happened in high schools. :rolleyes: Yeah, let’s give every pissed off teenager the ability to instantly cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to the entire school.
This depends on the type of sprinkler heads used.
Some heads are designed so that the seal will only break when the local temperature reaches a certain point. You would typically use these types of heads where there are strong concerns about water damage from false alarms.
Where this is less of a concern, sprinkler heads with dual release are used. These are activated either directly, or (by means of “sails” which extend up into the pipe) when the rate of flow in the pipe reaches a certain level.) These types of sprinkler heads are used for a “surround and drown” approach, where there is less concern about water damage than about the possibility of a fire spreading.
Which one is more likely to be used in an office building or police station? (That’s usually the type of situation where I see this trope)
I always sit for late-nite pisses, for purposes of accuracy. I’ll quite often piss sitting in certain other situations, too (toilets on moving vehicles, in particular. Buses often have signs expressly indicating that a gentleman is to sit when relieving himself so as not to douse the entire bathroom in his urine.)
It happened to one of the other grad students (with strangers, at least, not anyone who knew him): He was dressed as a woman for a Halloween costume, and some guy followed him around at Wal-Mart and whistled at him.
Or returning, as the case may be.
A man fainting upon learning that his wife is pregnant.
An upset woman running into her bedroom and collapsing face-down on her bed and sobbing.
A sad, depressed, lonely, or whatever person sitting alone in a dark room doing nothing for hours and hours, only to snap out of it when someone comes home and turns on the light and sees them sitting there. I mean, who DOES that?
They do this so that the presents don’t have to be re-wrapped after every take.
-Mercernary, Check!
-‘soft asset’ (google image search proceeds) check!
-stuck up sidekick, check!
-Mysterious Religous Cult! Double Check!
Very depressed people do that.
I think kapri was referring to the “snap out of it” part.
I do this. When someone I am sitting next to (at the same table or desk) at work does this, it is time to simultaneously press the speaker and mute buttons to find out what the fool thing the person on the other end is spouting about.
This explains much about Wal-Mart.
I work with CAD software at my job and talk to people every day on the phone who have macs. I see advertisements in magazines and tv as well as seeing them in movies and tv shows. But not a single person I know has one and I’ve never crossed anyone on the job or in a park or in a coffee shop or anywhere that I can remember that was holding a mac. They are out there apparently, I just don’t know where they hide.
This was the case at the most recent real-life wedding I attended. It was also an outdoor wedding, although not held in the backyard of the happy couple.
While she is not as fussy as most people think, Miss Manners does advise that one serve in dishes not commercial packaging.
I am fussy about that myself. One night I came home and my husband was setting dinner on the table in a skillet, and I asked him what he was doing. He told me that Marie, (not her real name), one of our house guests, had advised him that it was ok. I told her, “Well, you are not married to Marie, and while I’m you wife, it is not ok.” I also like to serve condiments from small dishes, but sometimes jars sneak onto the table.
Which is funny as my MIL likes to pull things out of commercial packaging as a way to make is seem, as an example, like she baked the Pie herself.