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Dissecting hearts in year 8 yesterday. Decided to soak the used equipment overnight in 50/50 solution of bleach and water. Came in this morning to find brown sludge in the bottom of container. All the nice shiny scissors were tarnished. Two of the probes had disintegrated several others had the handles corroded and the rest were black. All the scalpel handles were discoloured. Spent three quarters of an hour scrubbing everything with steel wool to try and make them shiny again. Soapy water next time.
Lyn.
I think I April fooled myself.

Hi Lyn
I did the same thing a few years ago and now warm soapy water is the only thing I use
Noona

A good tip I learnt a few years back...
If you dont have time to was them up eg last period. pop tools in a ice container, put on the lid and place in the fridge.
No rust!
I have done it over a weekend as well when only Part Time

I like the idea of the fridge. Though it might be a problem remembering them after a destressing weekend.
Lyn.

P.S. It just goes to show that no matter how long you've been in the job you can still manage to stuff things up.

I made that mistake Once!
Now I put under Metho and glad wrap

Yes I pop in freezer than does not matter if you dont get to them for a few days.

We all learn by our smelly smelly mistakes.

KIM

Amen to that Kimmy! Been there done that, even left milk in lab fridge over X-mas holidays...
EEeeeuuwww!
Lou P.

I left the scapels in bleach over night once and came back the next day to brown sludge at the bottom of the container. I can remember thinking why did I think that was a good idea at the time!

I've now always managed to clean up before I've left for the day.

I've also left milk in the fridge for a couple of months, but the worst bit was that I forgot it had been in there for so long and thought I had only just bought and got it out for an experiment. I almost fainted when I opened the lid! Even worse though, was that I then poured it down the sink (what was I thinking!!)! The smell then hung around for days.

The first time I made up Bromine water (early days in the job, & casual, being talked through it at the last minute by an impatient teacher, who simply drew me a picture of what to do ..... ya da ya da ya da...) - they just forgot to tell me not to clean everything up straight away - oops!

Luckily it was sports afternoon

But hey, today's Thursday - next week we'll be laughing, yay

I won't be running my computer, printer, phone, radio and my heater from the same powerboard again Now some brilliant soul, and it definetly could not have been ME, decided that was a great idea.... Turned out to be not such a great idea when the whole thing caught fire Luckily I was standing there at the time and could avoid any major incident, now all that burnt down was my pride What an idiot, I can still hear the maintenance guy laugh at me


Sass

And then you go and advertise your stupidity on chemtalk, " Iwonder about you Sassi" Good job we're all friends!

Welll I had to tell someone, and I most certainly wont be telling any of the teachers, I would never live it down Well I wonder about myself too, OFTEN, see I am extremely smart, 163 IQ and top of the class at uni, but then I am also so incredibly stupid sometimes, I think it should be closer to 63 instead.... Oh well, I guess its cause I am a blonde

Sass

Does that prospective husband know what he's letting himself in for?
One thing it won't be boring!

you crack me up Ocker!!!

Yeah I think he does, and if not, it certainly isn't my fault, we've been together for 6 yrs, if he hasn't figured it out yet, he can only blame himself

Sass

When is the big day Sass?

Robbie

18th July!!! Its in Sweden and I am going home in 7 weeks now, but who's counting

And guess what!! Future mother in law, father in law, sister inlaw and brother in law just have to fly to sweden for the wedding and have a gret holiday as well. It is a hard job, but someone got to do it.
Lada
Almost forgot, i am the mother in law to be.

Thanks for the laugh guys! I needed a laugh today - it's one of those

I look forward to the day (& I know it will come.... ) when I can share my red face!!!

Wish one of my relatives would get married overseas!!!! My bro in law is getting married in Sept... in the same town. Grrrrrrrrrrrr Congrats Sassi & lucky you Lada!! Sounds like lots of fun - will it be a traditional Swedish marriage Sassi?? Is there such a thing?? Tell us more...

I actually find it somewhat amusing to be talking about weddings on a thread titled "Won't do that again"

Wendy