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I am typing this in the bedroom of what could have been the charred remains of our house but I guess my wife's 'test' of leaving one of the burners on

Posted by HdnAgnda (aka HDNAGNDA) Mar 17 '11, 12:45

the (electric) stovetop on (high!) when she left with the kids this morning was done to prove to me that the house won't go up in flames.

Freakin hell!

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Now when I check the stovetop before we go out, it can no longer be called paranoia. -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 17, 12:56
ugh, I do this with electric stoves (never gas). I had to put a note on the door for myself. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 12:52 14
- You take something off the hot stove/you turn it off. Why is this hard? -- nm - Spawn Mar 17, 12:54 10
  - I take stuff out of the oven all the time and forget to turn it off. A burner on high I usually notice. - Blinky the Three Eyed Fish Mar 17, 12:59
  - Remember when a spark got on the oven mitt and a half hour later I burned michigan on the counter top? -- nm - Amy Mar 17, 12:57 1
    - Well, that could not have been avoided. -- nm - Spawn Mar 17, 12:58
  - I don't do it consciously. The trouble with electric is they don't always look on. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 12:56 4
    - But you were just cooking on it. -- nm - Spawn Mar 17, 12:56 3
      - I get the logic, it just doesan't always get turned off. It's unconscious. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 12:57 2
        
        Your unconscious self shouldn't be allowed to cook until it learns better. -- nm - TWuG Mar 17, 12:59 1
        
        my conscious self has a damn gas stove so it's not a problem. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 13:05
  - I don't know, but my idiot roommate has left it on a couple times. -- nm - ceregon Mar 17, 12:55
  - I ... just ... said ... (besides, I usually turn the burner off before I remove something from the stove) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 12:55
- "Oh, the stove is on fire, I should put it out." is a lot more fundamental instinct than "Oh, the burner is on. Oops." -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 12:54 2
  - Logic dictates that by cooking on it, you know it is freakin' hot. -- nm - Spawn Mar 17, 12:57
  - exactly this. -- nm - loosilu Mar 17, 12:56
wait, she did it on purpose? -- nm - sycor Mar 17, 12:47 7
- No. I was being ultra sarcastic. There will be a lot of that when she gets home too. -- nm - HdnAgnda Mar 17, 12:51 2
  - My wife left our gas stove on overnight a couple times. That was a little scary. -- nm - sycor Mar 17, 12:53 1
    - and I've left the oven on overnight. But I think that's not as bad. - sycor Mar 17, 12:55
- your sarcasm detector must be broken -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 17, 12:51 2
  - batteries may be dead. -- nm - sycor Mar 17, 12:53
  - maybe he turned it off as a test? -- nm - Roger More Mar 17, 12:53
- I had to read it about 5 times to get through the various possibilities. -- nm - Spawn Mar 17, 12:48
Wow. -- nm - Spawn Mar 17, 12:47
What are you wearing? nm - Dignan Mar 17, 12:47

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