Steve Calvin wrote:


>
> ok... "fall on sword" time. We recently bought a 17' "commercial"
> freezer from Sears. They delivered it, put it in the basement, leveled
> it, plugged it in and it fired right up so they left. Each time that
> evening I went downstairs it was just runnin', no problem.
>
> Next morning, Nancy called me at work and said that just for the heck
> of it she checked it and it was still warm inside! I asked if it was
> running and sure enough it was. So I checked it when I came home, yup,
> warm and still running.
>
> I was about ready to call Sears, and then it struck me.
>
> The basement has a finished side and an unfinished side. When we
> bought the house, Nancy took one of the rooms in the finished side for
> her craft room. There was a light switch at the top of the stairs
> which turned on a stairway light. Well, she'd go into the unfinished
> portion for whatever and forget to shut the lights off so I rewired
> things so that the light switch at the top of the stairs also shut off
> the power in the unfinished side... well... DUH. ;-)
>
> Go up stairs, turn stair light off - *poof*, freezer stopped running
> until the light was turned back on.
>
> Boy did I feel kinda stupid. :-)
>
> --
> Steve

Ewer! Reminds me of the time we went on holiday, leaving stuff in the
freezer... Then DH turned the electricity off for the duration of the
holiday! To this day I do not know why, except that this was what he
remembered his parents doing back in the 50's, as a fire prevention
thing!

You may be sure I made HIM clean out the freezer when we got back. He's
never turned the electricity off again while we were away! luckily it
was only a 3 CF freezer!

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