It was shocking

I work with electricity. I've never been afraid of it. It's probably the most dangerous thing that I work around. I'm not an ax man or an ice road trucker. I don't have to worry about real hazards. Electricity usually works how it is supposed to, and so after a while you stop worrying about it.
Yesterday I had an encounter with electricity, which was rather interesting. I was parking a scissor lift, and plugging it into to a 12ov circuit to charge it. While doing this, I had the ac chord in my right hand, and with my left one, I completed the circuit against the metal lift. When you are working with electricity, it is generally a good idea, to only use one hand. That way what happened to me, won't happen to you.
Your body is 70% water. Water is a great conductor of electricity. Anyone who has ever committed suicide with a toaster, in the bathtub, could tell you this. If only they could talk. Water molecules are very stringy and they always stick together. There is practically no resistance.
So as I touch the metal lift, with my left hand, while holding a broken ac chord in my right that just happens to be plugged into a 120-v 20amp circuit, my body was a perfect conductor of electricity. You may think I'm an idiot for doing what I did. The truth is, I've done this a million times before, because as I stated earlier electricity always works the way it is supposed to, so you stop thinking about it.
So I wasn't thinking about it, I was thinking about the next thing I was going to do. As I look down, at my hand a rather bright arcing bolt of electricity reached out and "tagged" me. Luckily for me, I hadn't plugged in the lift yet. There would have been 10-12amps through my body if I had. Amps are what kills people, not volts. Luckily I just had around 120-volts go through me quickly, for like 2 seconds, until I moved my hand away. It didn't even really phase me, and I kept doing what I was doing. I guess it takes electricity a few moments to attack.
About 5 seconds after the arc left my body, I fell to the floor. I just sort of lost control of myself for what I think was a few seconds. I just collapsed. And then I came to. I was really weirded out. It is hard to explain, and I still cannot wrap my mind around the sensations I was experiencing. A co-worker that saw what had happened, and who had heard the "pop"ran over to me with some water.
When you get electrocuted, you need about 25 minutes to recover completely. Unless you're dead. Then even after 25 minutes you'll still be just a fried corpse. 120-v is nowhere near fatal. Actually you can have many thousands of volts in your body, and be fine. If a couple of amp's sneak in though, you could die. Like I said before the amps are fatal.
It was a little scary at first. Only because it had never happened to me before, and I was feeling really out of sorts. After I calmed down, it was all better. You know that phrase "I was scared shit-less?" It is a cliche thing to say, but it actually has real meaning. After I went to the restroom, I felt much better. :)