Years ago Uncle Frank and Aunt LaBerta were here on the east coast(Pa) visiting with us. We were all sitting around the table and Frank asked LaBerta to get him his evening pills and while she was at it a new battery for his aide. As we ate supper and he took his pills, he said LaBerta where's my battery, she said I put it next to your pills! Well we all laughed at first realizing that he must have scooped it up and swallowed it with the pills, but me being the nurse ,I said it's got acid in it and we better get you checked out, I called my friend Dr. Friedman ,a gastroenterologist ,and he met us at the ER. Sure enough an x- Ray confirmed it was passing through the stomach and into the intestines. Doc said it would pass and that Frank should look out for its return! Lol! Uncle Frank joked with everybody in the ER. When anyone asked how he liked it here in PA ,he would say " I got a charge out of it" even years later I tell this story to friends and I laugh all over again! 

Mom put tennis shoes in oven after washing them, to dry faster with just the pilot light. What happens next is much to be expected.