Getting bent (ON topic if not thread)

Actually, I find most precautions such as anti-static and so forth to be baloney. I must have done every illegal thing in the book, and the only things I haven't gotten away with was plugging chips in backwards (by accident). When I was upgrading RAM in the machines in my school's MacLab, the person in charge of it constantly looked over my shoulder and bleated, "Touch the case again, Max. I want to SEE you touch the case. OK, now gently, gently, now. Oooh! Yeesh! DON'T touch those chips!",etc.etc. I didn't damage anything, but he thinks there is a problem even with touching the actual plastic case of the chip. I don't discharge static all over chips, mind you, I just think most precautions are waay overblown. Or have I just been lucky? Also, have chips gotten more static-sensitive, or less? Should I be more careful with a 64 MB DIMM or a 16K chip (cost aside)? torch! I'm insulted... ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com