Happy bday bez......

now you are as old as the rest of us (most of our classmates and i) are!!! enjoy the start of a new decade in your life!!!

Crocs and escalators.......

first it was static electricity affecting medical equipment......now, it's escalators that are proving to be dangerous when crocs footwear and these escalators meet!!!

the home page of our pc at the meatshop's office is Yahoo.com. when i turned on the pc this morning and clicked the internet explorer icon, this was the first thing i saw on the monitor click here , complete with the accompanying picture!

naturally, i googled the words crocs and escalators together......and a list of articles, as far back as august 2006, about the dangers of wearing crocs footwear in escalators appeared. there was even an account that happened close to home entitled Killer Crocs and Escalators .

how come its only now that i'm being made aware of all these??? why is it that when i finally found something i enjoy having and wearing, they're turning out to be "killers"??? why??? waaaaaaaaaaa!!!

looking on the bright side though.....maybe all of these bad publicity about crocs would result in decreased popularity of the footwear.......which means fewer people would buy them.....which in turn means they'd have to lower the price......which means i can then afford to have all of them styles in all colors!!! bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Our crocs & static electricity

these are just some of the 10 pairs of crocs that jon and i own....(technically, jon will say he owns only 1 pair and i own the rest!).....but that doesn't matter.....they're soooo light and comfortable, i wouldn't deny that nowadays they're the only footwear i use......(except for a pair of nike sneakers i use when i go out and exercise).....especially when i stay at the meatshop the whole day!!!

there's one thing that i observed though ever since i started wearing them.....i seem to generate or be hit by static electricity everytime i go near large metallic objects or equipment housed in metallic casings......which are practically what we have all over the shop......like stainless steel tables, upright and chest freezers and chillers, metal display racks, even hanging metal display racks for products in sachets!!! i've told jon and the people in the shop about this but they wouldn't believe me.....they thought i was kidding around whenever i'd suddenly jump in surprise and a little pain....i swear, i could hear and see the static whenever it hits me!!!

curious, i googled the words crocs and static electricity together.....and lo and behold, the phenomenon seems to be happening in some parts of the world as well.....more significantly, it has been observed in hospital settings where nurses wearing crocs footwear were observed to have generated static electricity which were powerful enough to have affected medical equipment. in fact, in some hospitals wearing them has been banned!!! so that means, i have not been dreaming of being so "statically" powered after all!!!

should i ban myself from wearing crocs at the shop? no way jose(lito)! what's a little bit of temporary stinging pain compared to countless hours of rest and comfort??? besides, the people at the shop seem to enjoy whenever they see me suddenly jerk my hand or jump in surprise whenever i get hit!!!

if only i can amass, harvest and use this to power the shop.....we would've saved a lot in electricity costs!!! hahahahahaha