What I Learned Today

Originally Posted by dar512

Please tell me that's not all you learned from that incident.

OK

I learned that I know absolutely nothing regarding the nature of potentially explosive devices. I learned that they might be road flares or they might be something more lethal, and if the latter, that the item does not become harmless merely because it is old. I learned that since my ignorance on the matter is so vast, that if I ever again come across something like that to leave it alone and call somebody who knows more than me about such things (this would seem to include most of the rest of the entire world).

There. I learned some important stuff, actually, and came away unharmed. Thank heavens the things were only ancient road flares.