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I always thought that touching a hot stove element and having your fingers touching the prongs as you plug something in were part of growing up. Made you understand that there might be something worth considering in all that safety nagging.

I saw the process happen in reverse when my father was working on our old black and white TV (I was maybe 12 at the time). I mentioned that the HV line to the CRT was dangerous**, my father acknowledged it, but at one point while turning to look outside the TV his elbow brushed the junction point where the line went into the CRT and he came flying out into the hallway.

No permanent damage other than pride and me being forbidden to work on the TV myself.

** (the library had great collections of electronics hobbyist magazines and my parents found the $$ to get a Popular Electronics subscription for me)