Ray's Thought for the Day - Moustache Safety

Imagine for a moment that yer a big fatty glutton with a moustache, gentleman or lady, doesn’t matter. You get yerself one of those great big two pound sandwiches that you can hardly get yer mouth around and you have to squeeze that sandwich, chock full of sliced potted meat and cheese and secret sauce down to get your lips open wide enough in a position to fix to eat it. At last yer all set and you bite into it. But lo and behold, one of yer dang mustache hairs gets tangled up in the sandwich and yer teeth cause that moustache hair’s too long and when you chomp down that moustache hair tugs down on yer upper lip and you bite yer lip along with the delicious sandwich.

Oh my, tears spring to yer eyes from the bit lip and the stretched out hair tugging ever so hard on yer upper lip and it does hurt so, but its too late to do anything, but keep chewing and try to swallow. Hark, when you try to swallow though, some of the swallowed goes down yer wind-pipe instead of yer gullet and you choke and choke. Eventually, after a minute or two, you have a panic attack and that’s what kills you.

Fortunately, this did not happen to anyone I both know and like, just a fat slob stranger, so this is nothing more than a funny story, fer me. However, long moustache hairs do fall under the general aegis of a Potential Safety Topic - environmental hazard, so I thought about it.

Like Crumby opined earlier this morning, I could draw an analogy or two from this story, but so what.