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Calling out of work (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I still don't know how I did it, but when I'd fake sick as a child my mom would leave the room for a bit while the thermometer stuck in my mouth, beneath my tongue. I would then breath the "hottest" air I could muster repeatedly from my lungs, believing that it would bring the thermometer up to fever levels... and it always worked.

Did I just have a really chill mom who recognized when I didn't want to go? Or could this absurd method actually trick a traditional thermometer into going up?

Maybe it's best that I don't know, as I have a daughter now and it's important to have her back when she needs needs a fuckin' day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe got enough convective heat transfer