When you're in the hospital and people need to monitor your vitals, they stick these things on your skin and attach snap-on cords that lead to heartbeat monitors and whatever else. Electrodes, maybe?
Anyhow, the adhesive they use on those things is sick -- I had five of them on my torso from my hospital adventures last month, and it took days for it to even be possible to pull them off. Why do they have to use such nasty glue? And don't get me started about the tape they use to secure IVs to your arm. I saw stars for a good minute when the nice nurse yanked it, along with about four layers of skin.
Contrast that with the very gentle tape we used on the actors at the theater, to secure their body mikes to their neck and ear. If anything, that tape could have been a bit stickier, because there were a few times when I could see that the cords were coming loose and I had to re-tape them during intermission.
Someone backstage even made some crack about using hospital tape instead of this mild stuff. Ha! Right. Well, the cords definitely would stay in place through a show, that's for sure. And hey, you'd know when the actors were taking their mikes off at the end of the show -- from all the screaming!
Yeesh ...
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