Crimson_Pirate
23-08-2006, 14:37
While my wife and I were away from home for a few days recently, we received a playful e-mail message from our pet sitter informing us that our house was "haunted."
She'd dropped in to look after our cats,
when suddenly she heard the sound of a paper shredder running in my office. Nobody else was in the house, and she quickly ruled out the possibility that one of our kittens had accidentally started the shredder because they were all dancing around her feet in the kitchen at the time, impatiently waiting to be fed. The incident was even more puzzling because I?m pretty careful about always leaving our shredder in the "Off" setting when we're not using it, and even when the device is powered on, it doesn't activate until a piece of paper is fed into it.
We never did solve the mystery,
although we're pretty sure it's not related to a haunting.
In any case, my point is:- the experience reminded me that we (like many other people) now have in our home a variety of machines that once were typically found only in business offices. Although some people manage to find ways to injure themselves with just about anything (even something as seemingly innocuous as a fax machine), paper shredders can pose a special hazard ? they're made to DESTROY DOCUMENTS rather than generate them, and (due in large part to concerns about identity theft) more and more of them are being purchased for home use, where their shredding blades represent a risk not just to careless adults, but to curious children and inquisitive pets as well.
This was not meant to shock anyone
It was just a reminder that sometimes we take for granted some of the dangers in our homes
IT CERTAINLY MADE ME THINK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT WHAT I HAVE HERE IN MY COMPUTER ROOM
Guilotine, shredder, paper slitter,,,,, and sometimes a very inquisitive 4? year old son.
It doesn't bare thinking about does it!
She'd dropped in to look after our cats,
when suddenly she heard the sound of a paper shredder running in my office. Nobody else was in the house, and she quickly ruled out the possibility that one of our kittens had accidentally started the shredder because they were all dancing around her feet in the kitchen at the time, impatiently waiting to be fed. The incident was even more puzzling because I?m pretty careful about always leaving our shredder in the "Off" setting when we're not using it, and even when the device is powered on, it doesn't activate until a piece of paper is fed into it.
We never did solve the mystery,
although we're pretty sure it's not related to a haunting.
In any case, my point is:- the experience reminded me that we (like many other people) now have in our home a variety of machines that once were typically found only in business offices. Although some people manage to find ways to injure themselves with just about anything (even something as seemingly innocuous as a fax machine), paper shredders can pose a special hazard ? they're made to DESTROY DOCUMENTS rather than generate them, and (due in large part to concerns about identity theft) more and more of them are being purchased for home use, where their shredding blades represent a risk not just to careless adults, but to curious children and inquisitive pets as well.
This was not meant to shock anyone
It was just a reminder that sometimes we take for granted some of the dangers in our homes
IT CERTAINLY MADE ME THINK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT WHAT I HAVE HERE IN MY COMPUTER ROOM
Guilotine, shredder, paper slitter,,,,, and sometimes a very inquisitive 4? year old son.
It doesn't bare thinking about does it!