by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are times when a good thing to do is put one or both hands in my pockets before doing something else.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the late 1970s (yes, I am that old), a college professor was working with us know-nothing students in an electrical engineering lab. The experiment of the week involved a little higher-than-normal voltage. As usual, we students didn’t know what we were doing, so the professor intervened. We noted that he first put one hand deep into a pants pocket before reaching out with the other hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We later learned that one-hand-in-the-pocket was a safety measure. If one hand became hung up in an electrical circuit, the other hand would be safe and useful in calming the emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We later learned that sometimes you put both hands deeply in your pockets before entering a situation. There are times when I shouldn’t touch anything. Such as with high-voltage rooms, guns, and other possibly life-threatening items. Both hands deeply in your pockets. There, no possibility of touching something that I shouldn’t touch. Both hands deeply in your pockets also prevents touching something of great temptation that I shouldn’t touch (someone else’s super cute baby is one such situation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hand or hands in the pockets rule has saved me many times. I recall one was Christmas Day of 1982 when a technician was showing me an electrical fault that was deadly. The technician neglected to warn me ahead of time. Having both hands in my pockets prevented me from touching a piece of equipment that was “hot,” i.e., would have knocked me out on the floor had I put my hand on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember the one or both hands in the pocket idea. Use it more often than you think you should. It could save you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips There are times when a good thing to do is put one or both hands in my pockets before doing something else. In the late 1970s (yes, I am that old), a college professor was working with us know-nothing students in an electrical engineering lab. The experiment of the week involved a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,51,90,115,329,48,58],"tags":[120,173,207,227,330,170,178],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-choose","category-education","category-engineering","category-error","category-general-systems-thinking","category-systems","tag-adults","tag-choose","tag-education","tag-engineering","tag-error","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4284,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}