Middle School Science Class

I was in 6th or 7th grade, taking general science from an old guy who was not very patient with us kids. One of the boys who was always kind of a trouble-maker was playing with a ball-point pen in the flame of his Bunsen burner despite the safety instructions from the teacher as well as the whispered warnings from other students. All of a sudden the pen caught fire and the jerk just jumped out of his chair and threw the flaming pen up into the air without regard for anybody else.

After the teacher got things under control again, he looked around the room and said, "There are three kinds of people in this world. Some learn from reading. Some learn from observation. But you..." He stabbed a finger at the crazy guy and really homed in on him, "You are one of the ones that only learn by pissing on the electric fence for yourself."

We all sat in stunned silence, astonished at hearing "piss" in class. Then the concept of the whole thing hit the boys, although not the girls: an electric fence, a stream of piss, a bare peter. Electric charge traveling up from the fence, along the stream of piss, straight to the exposed peter!

We looked at each other, trying to keep a straight face, but it was impossible. We were soon laughing our heads off. The girls didn't share our laughter, it was just a boy thing.

For weeks afterward, we quoted that line to anybody who screwed up: "Had to piss on the electric fence for yourself, eh?"

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