Confessions of a Geeky Girl

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mood: geeky

music: On a Bus to St. Cloud - Tricia Yearwood

When I was a kid growing up in the 80's Mr. Wizard's World was one of my first doses of geekiness using nifty experiements to explain how and why things worked.  I loved it and my sister and I would regularly tune into it.  Several of the experiments have stayed in my mind over the years and one in particular did.  Mr. Wizard was talking about the strength of arcs and demonstrated such strength by attempting to crush an egg.  Well, because of the shape of the egg, it distributes the pressure and therefore will not crack.  I was truly amazed by this fact.  So much so that from that time (I was probably 7) to the present day (I'm now 31) I have tried it more times than I can count.

Saturday, however, I found that Mr Wizard wasn't always right about these things.

I had decided to bake a cake to take over to my in-laws for their wedding anniversary and one of my boys loves to help with that kind of thing.  Trying to make it more entertaining for him I decided to show him the egg trick.  "Hey Ry!  Watch this!"  *squeeeeeeze* *CRACK!* 

No one told me that eggs shoot.  Seriously.  Instead of it turning into a drippy mess in my hand, the yolk literally flew up in the air about three or four feet, flew behind me and landed about three feet behind me.  On a rug.  Most of the white ended up running down my shirt.  Ryan stood there, his mouth gaping.  I stood there giggling like a moron.  Although it was messy, it was at least something entertaining for Ryan.