28. Can’t argue with 50 years of experience.
How fire sprinklers in a building work. In movies, they are always shown as:
Triggering from smoke (they don’t, they are heat-activated)
Someone lights a fire under one sprinkler head, and every head in the building triggers (only the head(s) directly near the heat source will trigger)
And often a combination of the two. It drives my dad, who has been in the fire sprinkler industry for 50 years, nuts.
29. I guess those hospitals aren’t reasonably competent.
I just saw a couple movies and TV shows where a character killed someone and/or defended themselves by grabbing a random scalpel from somewhere while in hospital.
No, just no.
Reasonably competent healthcare workers don’t leave random scalpels lying around. They come out of a locked room/cabinet, get taken out of a kit or some other sterile packaging, get used, then safely disposed of. Leaving sharp stabby things lying around for some psycho to grab and start stabbing people is a hard no.
30. Do they even know how the technology works?
Phone calls irritate me. The phone is clearly not on a call. The giant screen light is on and it show the keypad, not the call screen.
Also when people answer the phone without “hello”, have a short conversation and both know exactly when to hang up without any intimation from each other.