Dear Diary,
A memory comes to mind this evening. Please, sit with me and remember.
Back in my younger days, I was taking a laboratory class that involved messing with radioactive material. At some point in the school's history, a student (not me) believed that the radiation badges they had you wear couldn't possibly ever be checked. So, they stuck the badge in a very dangerous place where it was assured of registering a severe health risk.
When they checked the badges a few days later, the student was pulled out of class and given a full medical exam after which they confessed they hadn't actually been exposed.
When the teacher explained this to us on the first day of my class, and then said that if some huge radiation leak occurred this story would definitely mean we'd hear about it, I blurted out, "Party at my place if that happens."
And no one was amused. Have a happy Memorial Day.
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