We often hear the homemaker (I hate the word housewife) say that boredom is the hardest thing she has to deal with. When father comes home from a busy and interesting day at the office and ask her what she's done all day, she has nothing more interesting to talk about than an upcoming P. T. A. meeting or one of the kids skinned knees. The purpose of our little message today is to give you something really interesting to talk about over the chops at dinner tonight. Have you ever noticed when hubby kisses you, that you get a shock. This is electricity generated by the broadloom we walk on. I did a little research in this business, thinking that if I could harness all the charges I could retire a rich man. Here's what I found out. 40 million American homes have an average of 30 square yards of carpet over which a family of four takes 600 steps a day. That means 160 million people taking 24 billion steps per day. I asked a physics department expert about this and he figured it out at 100 kWh. In a year this would be enough juice to light up 3650 homes for one day or two run a 10 car electric train from Halifax to Saskatoon. The man from the University went on to say that he could say no possible way to harness all that power, which I found regrettable. He also suggested the chivalrous thing for a husband to do was to touch a light switch or lamp to first discharge his static voltage. Try these facts on daddy at dinner tonight and I'll bet a cookie he'll spend the whole evening wondering where you spent the day.
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