Those of us who were born without cable in our little nurseries and a game controller in our palm were forced to be a bit more innovative when it came to entertaining ourselves as children. Like licking batteries.
A couple of days ago my smoke detector in the daycare room started giving it's low battery warming. Three batteries from the junk drawer and two virgin batteries from Walmart later and the bird is still chirping. Guess I need to go shopping for a new one. This device is over 18 years old. Think I got my money's worth out of it.
Yesterday morning two of the daycare mothers came in and commented right away, "It's still beeping." I had noticed this already. I explained to them that I had tried replacing the battery and that apparently the test is bogus because they all zzzed my tongue adequately enough but none of them seem to shut the thing up.
Blank stares indicated that neither understood the "tongue test" so I explained. Both parents called me crazy and exclaimed that they had never ever tried such, or even heard of it before.
Oh come on now! I can't believe there is a person alive today that hasn't stuck a 9 volt battery up to their face and touched it momentarily with their tongue! I can't believe there is a person that has not only done that but encouraged a friend to do it as well! You just gotta!
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