Electrifying!
Once we had a clock that was not working properly, so Ford, my husband, was going to see if he could fix it. I almost fixed him!
We had unplugged the clock and he was tinkering with it to see if he could tell what was wrong. I was just watching him and standing by to help in any way I could. After a few minutes he had it mostly torn apart and was just fiddling with around with it.
I was still just watching and unconsciously I saw the unplugged wire and without thinking I suddenly plugged it in. Oops! Wrong thing to do. Ford got a jolt from it and he was furious! He said, "What are you doing?" I realized then what I had done and I felt like a fool. I apologized but that didn't help much.
Anyway, I guess I am a neat freak and I couldn't stand to see that unplugged wire just lying there like that, so, I plugged it in.
Fortunately, there was not enough power in the line to do any real damage but enough to shake him up. Believe me, I kept away from that plug after that.
I can't remember if we got the clock to work or not but Ford was rather cool to me the rest of the day! I guess he thought I was trying to get rid of him!
posted by kyra lafain @ 10/08/2008 12:30:00 PM
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So glad you're back! The little cartoon you used reminded me of momma the time our canister vacuum blew up....she looked just like the fellow in the cartoon! nh
I had forgotten about the vacuum blowing up! But I do remember when Daddy was installing the water line for the icemaker on Grandma's refrigerator. He was drilling into the water pipe, and he told Mama there might be a little water in the line, so she was to pull the plug if she saw him start jerking. He drilled a little bit then started jerking. Mama screamed and ran -- without pulling the plug!
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