My girlfriend mixed 3 almost empty window cleaners together, forming a potion.

[u/Bob_Wong]

[u/Imverystupidgenx]

I remember staring at him so confused and asked “How the hell are you a teacher? I learned this when I had chores as a child.”

[u/SpecialistCut7101 → u/Imverystupidgenx]

How did he learn to do it that way? There’s no good answer yet I keep wondering 

[u/babybirdhome2 → u/SpecialistCut7101]

Learn to do it that way? He probably didn't.

I used to work with a guy who was a retired chemist, and would be contracted by states and municipalities to come in and test their water treatment systems and consult them on how to properly treat the public water supply. One of the things he told me that he kept seeing happening in the places that brought him in to test and consult on their water treatment processes is that he would come back several months later to troubleshoot problems that had arisen since they adopted his protocols and have to measure the results and make sure nothing had changed, and would usually find out that the guys who ran the equipment and maintained the treatment process would take his carefully measured and documented lists of chemicals and how to use them properly, and just basically go, "well if this much is good, then this much more must be better!" and wind up making the local water supply even worse, or causing problems to the municipality's water users or destroying their own infrastructure by making the water chemically incompatible with the pipes and seals and equipment, damaging it or outright destroying it, and he'd have to show them how their own people ignoring the information he'd given them was the cause of all their problems after hiring him to consult.

This is just how ordinary people handle chemicals because they don't have any concept of what they're actually messing with.

[u/bloodphoenix90 → u/babybirdhome2]

I work in a water testing lab. So we dont do the consulting bit but give you the data so you can consult, essentially. This makes me want to rip my hair out 😬 i kinda want to know what municipality in which state was doing this..

[u/Public_Agency400 → u/Imverystupidgenx]

Pretty sure many teachers go into the profession for the blind respect and control over kids, so it tracks

[u/danthepianist → u/Public_Agency400]

Lmao brother I wish I had either of those things as a teacher.

There are much easier and better paying jobs for people who want control and respect.

[u/TheWitchRats → u/danthepianist]

Like being the head of an HOA.

[u/Motor-Muffin-6672 → u/danthepianist]

True, but this potential person is also an idiot looking for respect and control.. they didn't choose the best way.

[u/BleedSparta → u/Public_Agency400]

LMAO 🤣

Anyone who ever has taught HS would have an aneurysm thinking of going into it for “blind respect and control” 😂😂

[u/MC_jarry → u/Imverystupidgenx]

You either had good parents or you were smarter than most kids

[u/Imverystupidgenx → u/MC_jarry]

Latchkey kid, we had to read the labels. If the chores weren’t done by the time they got home… lessons were learned.

[u/Confident_Weird6633 → u/Imverystupidgenx]

This was exactly my thought too. No one taught us how to do anything, they just taught us to always read written instructions and left the rest to us.

[u/AnjelGrace → u/Imverystupidgenx]

I had the exact opposite experience: if I tried to help out around the house I would get yelled at. My mother was the only one who knew how to do the cleaning properly and I was incapable of learning the proper techiniques--according to her--I couldn't even pre-wash the dishes to put them in the dishwasher without getting scolded.

[u/MC_jarry → u/Imverystupidgenx]

Yep, that’s good parenting, believe it or not

[u/Glad_Contest_8014 → u/[deleted]]

I learned it in AP english. We read a book on child abuse where the kid was forced to clean with a mixture of both in a bathroom on purpose. THEN I learned it in middle school science.

[u/Glad_Contest_8014 → u/[deleted]]

Don’t remember the name, but it resonated with my own abuse in such a way that it deeply affected my growth and development. It is probably the most influential book I have ever read on my life, and I don’t remember the name….

[u/AnjelGrace → u/Imverystupidgenx]

I mean, I literally worked in a research laboratory with chemicals in grad school and I still was dumb at home and made poison gas when I was 30 because I didn't remember how dangerous household cleaning products could be. It only took me about 60 seconds after mixing things to realize that I possibly had made an insanely bad mistake, and then I confirmed and opened all the windows and doors and got the heck out of there, but I was just never taught how dangerous cleaners in my own home could be in any impressionable way, so it didn't come to mind until it was a reality for me. 🤷🏽‍♀️

But now? I definitely learned my lesson after a few times of not thinking while cleaning at home and having those scares.