Semi-tangentially related story. I was asked to be responsible for a water purifier in a science lab. They needed very pure water for sensitive NMR experiments. Well, I forgot to put the chlorine tabs in for a few months after they finally traced the contamination back to me (all the NMR spectra looked messed up).
It's one of the reasons I returned to being a computational biologist.
It's one of the reasons I returned to being a computational biologist.