Comic Relief: This JUST happened...

[JayQuah]

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So i am in lab right now, doing a DNA extraction. For those that have ever done this, the DNA comes out of solution as a big white spider-web looking blob.
I was taking it out with a glass rod, when it slipped out of my hands. The glass rod flipped up the DNA into the air.
I didn't see where it landed...i was looking everywhere for it.
Turns out, it was hanging off the sides of my goggles.
Anybody seen Something about Mary?

 

[JKP]

Funny thing is... something similar happened to me... I was doing some experiment and misplaced a test tube full of radioactive material. Turns out it was hanging off of my sleeve!!! 😱 Don't ask how I managed to do that!!!

 

[potato51]

Just today I spilled bleach at the sink in lab and didn't realize it had gotten on my dark blue shirt. Later while I was walking down the hall, a labmate screamed like a banshee at the sight of me. That moment I realized the bleach stained my shirt a very bright pink and apparently from a distance it looks like someone stabbed me in the gut and I was bleeding out 😉.

 

[Hurricane]

I wrote this a few years ago after a particularly trying day in the lab:

Things I learned in lab today

1. If the autoclave has a preset setting for "glass" - it means exactly that. It does NOT mean "glass + the plastic bin that always survived the autoclave in the building where I used to work."
2. Removing melted plastic from the autoclave rack is a long and arduous process.
3. When removing plastic from the autoclave rack:
-- a. Do not burn yourself on the blazing hot metal.
-- b. Do not cut yourself with the exacto-knife.
-- c. Do not lean the rack in the sink, lest it fall over and activate the eye-wash, which rivals Old Faithful in its ability to spew lots of water great distances.
4. I am not the first person in the Vontz building that this has happened to. The Fukasawa lab has that honor. (Well, 3c is probably uniquely my own...)