A couple of years ago, I was preparing to walk through a processing plant, and I had put on (almost) all the required personal protective equipment: shoe covers, coat, hairnet, beard net, helmet. The one thing I forgot to do was put on the earplugs that I was given. I just slung them around my neck and forgot about them, as I was talking with my tour guide. I made it all of about 10 feet onto the plant floor when the plant manager spotted me, walked over and told me to put them in place.
Imagine if I had told him that while I appreciated his suggestion, I wanted to do my own research about the benefits of earplugs. Furthermore, the hairnet was going to cause my hair follicles to die from oxygen deprivation, and washing my hands before walking onto the shop floor was just a ploy that Big Soap wanted you to believe. How quickly do you suppose my plant tour would have come to an abrupt end?
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