So it's okay if you get hit by a bus!

DK likes to believe that the lab would fall apart and we would all waste away without him. He makes sure there are certain things that only he can do.

When a CEM runs out of tape, I have asked him to show me how to replace it so that we don't have to go to hum every time. He gives his, "what would happen if I got run over by a bus?" speech but won't show me how to do it.

Last night, he wasn't working and one of the CEM needed a new roll of tape.

I figured out how to open it (it basically just flips up) and how to change the roll (just slightly above the level of difficulty of changing a roll of toilet paper!). The biggest challenge was snooping through the supplies in the office to find the right size paper.

Not exactly rocket science.

This is why no one on third shift will ever get certified to do phosphatase testing. Unless DK actually gets hit by a bus, I suppose.