Lord of Lightning
“She might even have decided to shop on another day. At another hardware store.
But Lise wasn’t thinking about consequences as she browsed in the electronics section, mulling over step-down transformers and rheostats, just two of the high-tech gizmos she needed for her class’s science project the next day. She was wondering how in the world she was going to teach twenty rambunctious summer school students to build a model metrorail when she had trouble telling a monkey wrench from a pair of duck...bill pliers.
“‘Connect the red wire to the blue terminal at junction A,’” she mumbled, reading the transformer instructions to herself as she muscled her wayward shopping cart down the aisle. A pyramid of oil cans loomed to her left. She saw it out of the corner of her eye and made an automatic adjustment for it as she continued reading. “‘Make sure the local electric power is AC. If the wires touch adjacent terminals, a severe shock can result.’”
That was when her shopping cart escaped from her.MoreLess
But Lise wasn’t thinking about consequences as she browsed in the electronics section, mulling over step-down transformers and rheostats, just two of the high-tech gizmos she needed for her class’s science project the next day. She was wondering how in the world she was going to teach twenty rambunctious summer school students to build a model metrorail when she had trouble telling a monkey wrench from a pair of duck...bill pliers.
“‘Connect the red wire to the blue terminal at junction A,’” she mumbled, reading the transformer instructions to herself as she muscled her wayward shopping cart down the aisle. A pyramid of oil cans loomed to her left. She saw it out of the corner of her eye and made an automatic adjustment for it as she continued reading. “‘Make sure the local electric power is AC. If the wires touch adjacent terminals, a severe shock can result.’”
That was when her shopping cart escaped from her.MoreLess
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