Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

6 sockets here...items plugged in? The fridge freezer, I am OCD about things bursting into flames so everything gets unplugged when not in use, I even turn the cooker off at the wall switch!
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I go a bit further.... I hate having two rings on at the same time, or two kitchen things running at the same time.... petrified of fire I am. And, if I've not used something electrical before, or for awhile, I daren't use it in case it catches fire.

I had a combination oven once, I'd not used it for 2 years as I'd been moving around and it was in storage. Finally bit the bullet and thought about using it - put it in the middle of the kitchen floor, petrified.... I was scared it'd catch fire - everybody laughed at me and called me stupid ... I turned it on for a test ... and smoke started puffing out the rear. It was for this reason that only last week I had to bin another one that's been stored in a shed for the past year and I've not actually used for over 4 years.

In a perfect world I'd have a separate kitchen building, with a fire door - attached to the house via a fireproof walkway.

But I'm also not keen on anything electrical running, or gas, or water.... I should get a caravan in the garden really and just use the house for baths and cooking.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

Dad is home from hospital again, they are not sure what caused the very low BP (it was either my mum's carbonara or the sex he insisted on telling everyone about) but the effect it has had is to cause more damage to his brain due to lack of oxygen or something.

He has been put through all manner of tests and scans and goodness knows what and declared ok and in no immediate danger..but now has to deal with even more deficits to his health...he's not too bothered though, as he kept telling his consultant, at least a certain part is still working!

So embarrassing though, he was so rude (as in sexy rude not churlish rude)!

The trouble with parents being ill is... they don't get on and sort it out themselves... it always involves the kids running round sorting things out, delivering them to hospital, collecting them, etc etc.... and you don't get thanks you know!



We never chose to have parents - they should remember that/

SingleSue

I'm the same PN....it is not just the kitchen where things get unplugged, it's all over the house, drives the boys mad as I won't let them charge their phones etc overnight in case the plugs explode while we are asleep.

Also, any dripping noise and I am immediately on high alert that something is flooding and will search high and low for the cause.

I drive the boys up the wall with my antics...

Doozergirl

I'm behind but I wonder if someone can recommend an online storage website that is inexpensive and nice?

My portable hard drive is on it's way out I think. I've just dumped it all on to the laptop but I'm going to need to keep it somewhere safe! :eek:

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

I'm the same PN....it is not just the kitchen where things get unplugged, it's all over the house, drives the boys mad as I won't let them charge their phones etc overnight in case the plugs explode while we are asleep.

Also, any dripping noise and I am immediately on high alert that something is flooding and will search high and low for the cause.

I drive the boys up the wall with my antics...

I think I have the capacity to either smell things others can't, or invent them.... I panic when I smell something suddenly - as I think something's burning. I can classify and identify many different burning smells to describe them. Usually, nobody else can smell them,

When I phoned up about a gas leak at the old's house, the engineer said "How on earth did you smell it? It's tiny. Nobody'd normally have noticed".

Slightest new noise, or smell and I leap up and have to investigate it .... I can never relax. I think that's why I like a quiet life - so I can hear anything that's a problem. One morning about 6am I had a 6th sense and went to the loo to discover something in the cistern had broken down and it was p155ing out water everywhere, it must have only been doing it 1-2 minutes, but I'd woken. Left to my usual waking time the whole bathroom would have been awash.

chewmylegoff

9/11 I was at accountancy college. Me and another idiot popped out for our traditional lunch time pint - by which time both towers had been hit but hadn't collapsed. We didn't go back just sat there staring at it. We got absolutely wrecked, which I suppose is a bit odd but there you go.

Princess Diana's death - was 17 or 18. Camping in a field, hammered off cider doing donuts in an Austin metro when we heard about it on the radio.

I don't remember where I was for anything else important. I wonder why? Hic!

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm behind but I wonder if someone can recommend an online storage website that is inexpensive and nice?

My portable hard drive is on it's way out I think. I've just dumped it all on to the laptop but I'm going to need to keep it somewhere safe! :eek:

No. I distrust everybody I'm afraid, and am too tight to actually pay for storage.

How much data, what sort of data, have you got?

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think I have the capacity to either smell things others can't, or invent them.... I panic when I smell something suddenly - as I think something's burning. I can classify and identify many different burning smells to describe them. Usually, nobody else can smell them,

When I phoned up about a gas leak at the old's house, the engineer said "How on earth did you smell it? It's tiny. Nobody'd normally have noticed".

Slightest new noise, or smell and I leap up and have to investigate it .... I can never relax. I think that's why I like a quiet life - so I can hear anything that's a problem. One morning about 6am I had a 6th sense and went to the loo to discover something in the cistern had broken down and it was p155ing out water everywhere, it must have only been doing it 1-2 minutes, but I'd woken. Left to my usual waking time the whole bathroom would have been awash.

I'm not mad, there are others like me! I'm the same with smells/noise too.

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm behind but I wonder if someone can recommend an online storage website that is inexpensive and nice?

My portable hard drive is on it's way out I think. I've just dumped it all on to the laptop but I'm going to need to keep it somewhere safe! :eek:

This link has a selection of sites spread across three pages. On the first page I've used Dropbox but only ever used the free version. Second page includes Adrive which has 50Gb free storage. Tried it but its not as user-friendly as Dropbox. Have a root around.

GDB2222

SingleSue wrote: »

Dad is home from hospital again, they are not sure what caused the very low BP (it was either my mum's carbonara or the sex he insisted on telling everyone about) but the effect it has had is to cause more damage to his brain due to lack of oxygen or something.

He has been put through all manner of tests and scans and goodness knows what and declared ok and in no immediate danger..but now has to deal with even more deficits to his health...he's not too bothered though, as he kept telling his consultant, at least a certain part is still working!

So embarrassing though, he was so rude (as in sexy rude not churlish rude)!

Disinhibition can go hand in hand with getting older and minor brain damage, I'm afraid. He's not intentionally being rude or trying to shock, and it does not reflect on your family in any way. It seems to be very mild in your father's case, so don't let it upset you too much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinhibition