Hydrochloric Acid Is Fun!! A story of lost causes (and belly buttons)

I was in lab for my Inorganic Chemistry course the other day and we had to perform a reaction involvingHydrochloric acid. All I could think of that afternoon was the day I lost my belly button....

You see, when I was on Year Course (click here to email Andy Strauss) I spent the last month at Kibbutz Ketura. I spent my days and night doing random jobs around the kibbutz while trying not to get fired. Among these jobs, I was working at the pool. It was very hot outside and Ketura was very lazy so we were the only Kibbutz in the regional council that didn't have our pool open yet. My job in the pool was to clean it so we can fill it with mayim so we could go swimming.

OK, back to the Hydrochloric acid and my poor little belly button. I was working at the pool with somebody with the name of Sharon Grossman. We had to remove the algae from the walls and floor of the pool using hydrochloric acid. THIS STUFF WAS STRONG!! Sharon and I always talked about its strangh and how it could make an impact to society. Among the things we talked about was belly button removal. There must have been so many people in the world who are tired of the fact that thay have "outie" belly buttons and wanted an "innie"

So, after a whole month of discussion with Sharon and Naava (and Uri), we chose to do it. Down came the Hydrocloric acid pouring down my tummy. That suff eats skin fast.

And me and my brand new "innie" belly button lived happily ever after at Sprout. (But Sharon didn't)

The End.

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