[jdironman]

Well, your comment was my deep laugh for the day. excellent story. When I was younger, I saw my father working on a ceiling fan...while it was on. I asked him why he did not flip the breaker first and he said "well, as long as you don't touch both wires at the same time, you'll be fine "

Fast forward a few days later I am at school, and I see in one of the outlets one of the prongs for a power cable had broken off in it. I remembered his advice about not touching both sides and proceeded to try and pull it out using my fingers...you can probably imagine what happened. It grabbed hold of me for a few seconds and a lesson was learned.

[SoftTalker]

In theory, if you were wearing rubber shoes and not touching any other path to ground, you would have been fine.

[jdironman]

I think supporting myself by holding the metal of one of those school desks was a factor possibly.