Twenty-one electricians. One simple question: "What was it like the first time you licked an outlet?" Ready...GO!

1. Steven Andrews

"I definitely have never done that."

2. Martin Clark

"I'm sorry, I don't think I understand your question."

3. Peter Merrill

"I have never licked an outlet."

4. Jane Garland

"I have tools for that."

5. Reed Poulin

"What?"

6. Mark Harrigan

"Ha! That's a good one. No, I've never done that sort of thing."

7. The Perkins Brothers

"No, we've never had to resort to doing anything like that."

8. Todd

"So, I get to this place down on Second Street, pull on up, and the first thing I see is this giant electrical cloud just hanging over the house. Terrifying, gigantic cloud. Crazy electrical currents running everywhere. The front of my truck even starts to lift up off the ground, but I push it back down and place a large tree on it to keep it in place. Then this middle-aged guy comes screaming out of the house, and he's desperate, you know, and you can look in his eyes and you can tell that he's seen a lot in the last hour or so. He rushes me into the house, and I kid you not, there's this huge circuit monster destroying the place from the inside. It's like, this figure, with arms and legs and a head all made out of pure electricity, and it's roaring and screaming and spitting sparks everywhere. Now I know what you're thinking. I should've just run out of the house right then, no turning back. But I had a better idea. I had tried it once in junior high, and it hadn't really worked out back then, but I figured this was as good a time as any to try it again. I found the source of the beast, which was a regular wall outlet set up right next to the kitchen entrance, and without thinking, I stuck out my tongue and gave the outlet a great big lick. I felt a bit of a zap, and all of a sudden the monster was disappearing, twirling in this ungodly tornado storm thing, and I thought everything was going to be alright. Then I start feeling the zap a little bit stronger, and it's not just in my tongue. It's coursing through my body. I feel the tips of my fingers giving out these little lightning-type shock waves, and I finally realize: I am becoming the electrical monster. I see the middle-aged guy again, and I'm screaming for help, screaming at the top of my lungs, but he looks at me and he's terrified. Eventually, everything went back to normal, but yeah, that's the first time I did that."

9. John Goodwin

"I don't think that's ever a good idea."

10. Katie Littlefield

"I have never been in a situation that called for that."

11. Marilyn Shaw

"I'd rather not talk about that subject."

12. Greg Curtis

"I've contemplated this before, but I've never gone through with it."

13. Paul Williamson

"Do you even know what electricians do?"

14. Mark Harrigan

"Didn't you already ask me this? Please let me get back to my work."

15. Walter Greenberg

"That's not really the sort of thing that electricians do."

16. Sarah McDonald

"That is a foolish question."

17. Larry Ryderson

"I've done some crazy things in my life, but never that."

18. William Stanley, Bobby Lee, and Ted Emerson

"None of us have ever done that."

19. Kenny Harris

"I'm sorry, what?"

20. Mark Harrigan

"Quit bugging me! Okay, okay, fine! Fine. I'll tell you. But I want this to stay between you and me, okay? Do you promise? Okay. Well...I was seeing this girl for a little bit. Beautiful girl, absolutely beautiful. Name's Marilyn Shaw. But you don't need to know that, just forget you heard that. Anyway, so we're fooling around one night, we've had a couple drinks and there's some nice soft music playing, candles burning--you know, I'm a pretty romantic guy when I want to be--and she whispers in my ear, with this adorable voice, she says, "I want you to lick that outlet," and she motions to the outlet by the nightstand. Now, normally, you know, I wouldn't do that sort of thing. I know that it's dangerous. But this girl, she had, like, these powers, you know? She made me do something that I did not want to do. Looking back on it now, I definitely would not have jumped out of bed and made out with that electrical outlet. But I did. And I mean, really, made out. I'm going to town on this outlet, and you know how they say when you have your first kiss and it feels like there's fireworks? Well, that's what it feels like. I'm on cloud nine, baby, and then Marilyn joins me, really just giving this outlet all that she's got. There are tongues and sparks flying everywhere, and I can't even tell what's going on anymore. Suddenly I feel my heart give out from the excitement, I fall down, foaming at the mouth. Everything's kind of a blur after that, and I wake up in the hospital about a week later. Haven't seen Marilyn since."

21. Frank Delbrook

"Nope, that's never happened to me."