My wife took her support of me breaking Guinness World Records to promote STEM education to another level. She let me wrap her entire body with cling/plastic wrap (multiple times!). The record was for “Fastest time to wrap a person in cling film/plastic wrap”. The previous mark was 1 minute 59.71 seconds. I thought it would be a piece of cake to beat, I was wrong.

The person being wrapped has to be over 5 feet tall and the arms and legs need to be wrapped individually, including the bottoms of the feet. There can be no rips, tears, skin or clothing showing from the bottom of the feet all the way up to the neck (but not the head).

The arms, legs, and torso are easy. The joints are hard. There’s a reason I stuck with my wife for this attempt as it required getting personal to get everything covered. The wrap tends to bunch up at joints which makes it hard to cover them. The most clever move I had to make was over the shoulders and back down through the legs.

It took 4 practices and then another 12 official tries to finally get it. On many of the attempts, the wrap ripped and I couldn’t get going again. On 3 of the attempts, I called time and thought I’d broken the record but the judges found small patches that were uncovered (at the joints!)

On the final try, we finally got everything covered in 1 minute 57.1 seconds beat the previous mark by less than 3 seconds! My wife is a saint. In all I used over 1,000 feet of plastic wrap on her… and it takes just as long to get off as it does to put it on!