I'm sure I'm not the only one, but when I was a kid, my parents always warned me to not take a shower during a thunder/lightening storm. I don't think anyone had any concrete evidence as proof that it was actually dangerous, but it was one of tales that had been passed down over the decades as something to avoid. Somebody's neighbor's mom's grandma's co worker was once struck by lightening through the shower-head type of deals.
And as is the case with most of those warnings, as the years passed, I grew increasingly dismissive of it. Don't get me wrong, if it's storming during my normal shower time, it still crosses my mind, but at this point in my life I've taken enough showers during storms with nothing bad happening that I'm no longer be worried about it.
Until today.
Now a toilet is not a shower,
but I think the same principles apply. Apparently lightening struck near the septic tank, electrified the water, and sent a jolt through the plumbing lines that exploded this couple's toilet. Thank God neither of them were sitting in there playing games on their phone and ignoring the other person! It could have been disastrous. But this is the first piece of evidence that I've ever seen in my entire life that corroborates my parent's warning.
So as we were talking about this on the air this morning, I asked the text line what other types of shower-lightening stories your parents warned you about when you were a kid. In no particular order;
1) It's against the law to turn your dome lights on while driving. Live look at my parents if I ever turned the dome light on while they were driving:
2) Don't use the phone during a thunderstorm. Apparently your just supposed to sit silently in your chair until a thunderstorm is over.
3) Don't stare into the microwave when it's running. I guess the thinking being the waves used to turn your Hot Pocket into lava is going to somehow warp your brain. Maybe that's the reason that I'm the way I am.
PS: The first shower I took during a thunderstorm might have been the most exhilarating moment of my life given how much I was warned not to do it. Bad Boy 4 Lyfe.
Double PS: There's a Taco Bell joke as it relates to this toilet exploding in this story somewhere.
