Making Light:  Open thread 41 ::: June 06, 2005, 05:20 PM

Dangerous books?  The American Heritage Dictionary of the English
Language.  In 1983 I went to look up a word and dropped the dictionary
on my toe.  I went to the ER to see if the toe was broken, and
eventually got the bill charged to Worker's Compensation.  That got
the bean-counters involved, so my boss got an accident form to fill
out, and he assigned that task to me.  Simple justice.

The last line on that form gave me the most trouble.  "Remedial action
taken to prevent future accidents of this nature."  I finally settled
on "Employee was told to be careful with books."  I've still got that
dictionary, and I'm always careful with it.