I've probably saved thousands of lives by steering them away from toxic materials and solvents. Darn near got fired for it a few times - all that stuff was serious money at one time, and the ownership didn't like lost sales - pentachlorophenol, creosote, 1:1:1, lacquer solvent, toluene, benzene, lead paint, even asbestos board. Now Round Up is in the crosshairs, and should be. All of this stuff was once brazenly marketed as "harmless". So, if someone wants to make a smart-ass remark that death follows me, that's fine, because I'd sure to prefer to be ahead of it in the race, rather than have it prematurely catch up! The last incident before I retired was when I refused to sell someone a carbide circular saw blade rated at 4500RPM when I knew he intended to put it on a grinder which ran 11,000RPM to make a poor man's toeplate saw. He cussed me out, told me that's what everyone does, and said he'd never shop there again. I said, Fine, I'd far rather see you walk out of here forever than walk back in with a lawyer and missing a hand or eye. The very next month six workers in a SF boatyard got maimed doing that very thing.
I'd seen it all already.
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