OK, Dave. Are you basing your advice on personal experience, something you heard/read somewhere, of an actual education in the physics of electricity?

For example, if the outlets in my house are properly grounded, why is this ground more risky to use than the "ground" ground outside? I read at some time in the past a theory for lightning rods placed on houses.... Although they would direct a lightning strike around the house and to the ground, they tended to keep the air around the house less "charged" and so reduced or eliminated lightning's tendancy to strike the house.

I don't doubt your sincerity, Dave. I just want the REAL truth, and not the propigated myths. Do you know if what you said is the real truth, or is it just something you heard and are passing along?

In either case, thank you very much for your response.

David B.