03-16-2019, 01:08 AM
To keep the thread on track, a random school memory I had was when I was in middle school. There was these commercials for the flashlights that don't have batteries. Instead they have copper coils in them with a loose magnet that you shake to charge it. The commercial claimed a car could run over it and the flashlight would still be perfectly fine. My grandmother bought one for me for Christmas. It made me so excited that I decided it would be a good idea to bring it to school to show off to people. Anyway, I was in band class before it started (we usually had 10 or so minutes of downtime to setup) and I was showing it off to 3 other kids in the class. I explained to them how it worked, unscrewing the top as well to show them the strength of the magnet inside. But then I wanted to impress them, I remembered back to the commercial about the car running it over. I told the other kids "this flashlight is pretty strong, I can whack it against the step right here and it won't crack open." I gave it a couple of good hits against the carpeted step and the plastic flashlight just bounced off. One of the kids asked to see it, so I obliged and handed it over. Turning it around in his hands a bit, looking it over, he then exclaimed with a smug expression "This doesn't look so strong, I bet I can break it." Before I can even say a god damn thing he is putting all of his weight into an overhead swing and hits it in such a way that makes it explode in half. It wasn't until later when I got home that I found out from my grandmother that she had got a knock-off brand of it. Even though the flashlight got smashed, that magnet kept me entertained for quite awhile by how fucking powerful it is.