Whether or not this instance is true…I’ve seen the show, and if I were a soulless marketing droid (tm), this is exactly the sort of ad I would buy.
We don’t have a Pizza Hut logo burned into the lunar surface yet, but only bc it was found to be enormously expensive. Still, a non-zero number of marketing people have at least looked into it.
I have one in my current house that turns off electricity to the stove. It’s not an electric stove, but it DOES have an electric starter. Meaning that if you turn this switch off, you can blow up the house.
I lived in a place once where the foundation was installed, then the A/C unit, then the house built. When the A/C failed, there was no way to replace it except by tearing it out (which the landlord was not in a financial situation to do). This is south Florida, so that was hideous for all of one summer. Thank God we moved out in the fall. That place could have used a good "blow-me-up" switch.
Your stove will have a thermocouple and pilot even with an electronic starter. That thermocouple does not require electricity to function, and will shut off the gas supply if the pilot dies.
Your explanation makes sense, but even after reading it to my stove, it still continues releasing gas. Let me know when I should turn the switch back on.
Most likely has an alternative flame supervision device, I bet if you read the instruction manual it would give you information on that device and how it works.
Probably, but that would require the instruction manual, which I don’t have. It’s a rental, the owner is an old Hispanic woman who pocket dials me once a week and then asks what I want. I highly doubt she has the instruction manual for this stove from the 1970s.
My electric gas stove with electronic starter, in fact, does not have a pilot light. Or a thermocouple. It will absolutely spew gas into the air if the stove knob is on and the little clicker doesn't get it lit.
In an airbnb the warm water in the kitchen sink wasn't working, there was this valve thingy at the base of the faucet, so I thought you maybe you needed to turn that. It didn't do anything, but then the next day the dishwasher stopped working. We started doing the dishes by hand but towards the end of the vacation we got so sick of doing that so we started to debug the dishwasher. Turns out that little valve at the faucet turns off the water to the dishwasher.
Thanks for the image. I was thinking UNDER the sink! They make 2 in 1 valves and splitters for the dishwasher and sink. I was about to hop on the Dude that's normal bandwagon.
I was pet/house sitting for a friend one time and could not find the light switch for the kitchen. I left it on all night because I tried every switch and none of them controlled this one specific light. My friend wasn’t mad that the light was left on all night, but he showed me a secret light switch hidden behind like coats or some shit.
I remember one time at my gf house, flipped some switches in the kitchen for some light. Next thing I know, her dad is mad because someone changed the time controlled lights for the backyard. Who puts those into the kitchen where you normally have light switches?
The real ones for the kitchen where in the livingroom.
Edit: spelling
This is our house actually! The kitchen light and the back deck light both have switched by the back door. BUT we have the kitchen light on a remote with a ceiling fan so really the switch is supposed to be always on and you control the light with the remote mounted on the living room side! And if you touch the wrong switch it can either turn off the back deck light entirely OR turn off the motion sensor so that the light never turns off!
My parents will screw up the kitchen lights every single time.
This this this. I have them in all the rooms rigged for smart lighting. Also my apartment has an old fashioned switched outlet, I guess for when people wanted floor lamps and whatnot to have wall switch control. God damn nuisance as it's where I plug in my modem (right by the fiber jack). So many times I killed my own internet until I got some.
The only logical wall in our living room for the TV has the only outlet that connects to the light switch by the front door! My husband did remove the switch altogether for that one. Then we added a smart switch to the lamp in the outlet that doesn’t have a wall switch.
Honestly even for a house built in 1942 I don’t understand that was the only outlet chosen to connect to a switch but here we are.
i once used my friend's bathroom not knowing it was his nanas special jesus bathroom idk. it had crucifix and pictures of jesus everywhere and a plush red seat cover, and i took a dump there anyway. she was so mad and blasted him in portuguese and then he berated me for like 20 minutes
My GFS grand and great grandfather build the house themselves.
They also used whatever cables where available. Some sockets have 3 black wires. ( I'm Germany you usually have 1 red, 1 blue/black, 1 yellow/green)
Or in the case of my childhood home, they wanted it to look “more modern” so they added more light switches and outlets.
There is at least one, usually 2, outlets on every wall (most are installed upside down for an unknown reason) and there are light switches EVERYWHERE. There are 4 different switches that turn on/off the outdoor porch lights and one of them is upstairs. Two switches for the kitchen light/fan. 3 that turn on and off outlets in the living room. If you plug something in and it doesn’t work, I’d have to go around turning on every switch until it turns on. But of course some of the outlets just don’t work at all but you’d never know that until you turn on every switch on the first floor.
Then there’s one switch that doesn’t do anything. Like they ran out of things to attach it to and decided they didn’t need a fifth switch for the front porch lights.
I... I put a duplex outlet next to my kitchen sink when I first moved in.
Later on, I decided I needed a light above my sink just below the cabinet that I had installed there. So I took that duplex unit, removed one of the outlets and put in a switch.
I took the outlet, ran a new line and installed it above the cabinet so I had an outlet up there that I could use for the light that I was going to install above the sink. Easy access to the switch for the light above the sink. Worked great.
Then, I was working on figuring out a good location for the router in our house, and the most central location was above the kitchen sink, so I installed the router on the spare plug on that outlet that controlled the light and told everyone in the family to not use the light switch until I swapped things out. They all listened.
My house sitter, did not. Nor did my cousin, who thought it was the switch for the non-existent garbage disposal.
It's now been 3 or so years, and I still have not done anything to prevent people from flipping that switch and randomly turning my internet off.
My house growing up had this, and the motion light for the driveway. But ours had like, a cover for it so you couldn't hit it by accident.
When smart switches first started, I had one put in my bathroom, and if you flipped it, it would trigger an ITTT, which would wait 30 seconds, and loudly play farting sounds from a bathroom speaker. I placed it closest to the door, cause that's where the light switch usually is, and I thought it was hilarious every time someone new came over and flipped it.
What is with kitchens and esoteric placed light switches?
A few other comments here have mentioned kitchen light switches.
I admit I myself still mistake the hallway and kitchen light switch at home sometimes because they're both next to each other (outside the kitchen of course).
And I've been at my sister's place several times now (dog likes to make a pitstop there during walks) for years and I still haven't found the kitchen light switch in her home.
My grandpa did this. The porch light switch is by the door going outside. And depending on how many times you flip it it can be on,off, or motion sensor. The kitchen light switch is by the door going into the living room (still in the kitchen though)
We have lived in our house for close to 30 years. The light switches have been the same for 30 years. Yet he still came in, flipped the porch light about a dozen times (screwing up the setting) before finally going "this isn't the kitchen light switch"
Same situation in my house growing up. Dad installed motion flood lights in the backyard. The switch was located in the kitchen. Turning them off, then back in would make them stay on. And again for motion mode. But could never tell what mode it was in unless you were patient.
I have a light switch in my bedroom at my current apartment that I have no idea what it does.
There is no overhead light in the room, and the only other switch in the room is for the closet light.
In my computer/gaming room there is a switch that I found out is connected to one of the electrical outlets, which is where my router is plugged in, so that switch just stays on all the time until my gf accidentally shuts it off trying to turn off the closet light in that room.
So I thought maybe the one in my bedroom did a similar thing controlling one of the outlets, but I tested all the outlets and the switch using a lamp, and it did nothing. I really don't know what it's for, and I gave up trying to figure out. One day I might accidentally figure out what it does, but so far it hasn't released any feral raccoons
“There’s a switch in my apartment that doesn’t do anything…I flipped it every day, until I got a letter from a lady in West Germany saying ‘cut it out’”
My apartment is kinda like this. The top socket in some outlets are controlled by light switches, while the bottoms always have power. But only some of the outlets, the others work like normal lol
These are a relic of old construction called lamp outlets, for you to plug a lamp into and control with the light switch. A lot of elderly people use them at my property I work at but like nobody else does lol
Interesting, thanks for the info! I assumed that's what they were for since the rooms with those outlets don't have any overhead ceiling lights, so I have to use them for floor lamps haha
Check the bathrooms' exhaust fans. My mystery switch turned out to let you switch the exhaust fan for the upstairs washroom so you don't have to go back up after showering in the morning before you leave for work.
Check both the bottom and the top receptacle of each outlet for the switch. Depending on how the switch and outlet are installed, it’s possible for a switch to only control the bottom or top receptacle while the other one is not controlled by the switch at all.
I would assume that there used to be an overhead light in that room, but at one point the landlord removed the fixture and covered up the hole, but never removed the switch.
Do you not have another outlet in that room you could plug your router into? Or in a different room? It's convenient for when you need to restart it, but I would just move it to avoid the risk
To actually break it during the process of figuring it out is kinda impressive though. Usually you just give yourself a ice cold or scolding hot surprise while fiddling with all the knobs.
It seems like insanity that there's anything other than the most obvious of controls.
But no, you won't be able to swap from bath to shower or change the temperature or something, there's absolutely no controls to even get wrong so you ask the host and they come in, look at you like an idiot and press in a shower tile like it's a spy movie or rotate the curtain rail or shove a finger into a hole on the underside of the bath tap or something.
And you're the weird one for having a perfectly good system with one lever to turn the water on and off, and another to control the temperature.
My shower is so old that the showerhead leaks, so my grandpa put a valve on the showerhead that you need to open first. I always tell anyone who needs to shower here that you need to do that, because I know how weird it is. I don't know why everyone with a weird anything doesn't tell their guests that kind of stuff.
Fuck me, we have a dual sink in our upstairs guest bathroom that they screwed up the lines on. So the hot comes out the cold, etc.
I would swap them myself but they built this house with this brittle ass CPVC piping so anytime I try to do any plumbing it breaks and fucks everything up. The plumber wanted $300 to swap it last time because he ALSO does not want to fuck with the CPVC...
Anyways. I have the faucets clearly marked but one time my MIL was over and trying to help my daughter wash her hands. Shoved her hands right into the hot water.
Goddamn so many things in this house are backwards and too expensive to fix.
man do i feel this. my kitchen sink is backwards, the breaker panel is completely mislabeled, the toilet didn't have a shut off valve and the galvanized piping was completely fcked and rotted my bathroom flooring leaking into the basement. i bought this house late october and ive already spent 4k fixing the bathroom *alone 😭😭😭 just finished refurnishing the pee stained tub and that took a week. i'm running out of motivation already!
You should always assume the non-metallic bucket next to the fireplace, full of ashes, is the asbestos bucket. That's where it lives!
If someone has removed the asbestos bucket from its rightful context and you've spontaneously decided to grind it into a fine powder to roll around in, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
This is the crux of this post to me. Too much shit gets put into a lamp outlet. I'm sorry your grandma thought she was going to die because her CPAP went off when we used a light switch as they're designed in the bathroom and you have 3rd world electrical wiring.
It is actually really common to have a one or two outlets in a formal room be controlled by light switches to turn on/off lamps instead having an overhead light in the room. Obliviously younger generations tend to not want to keep a formal living room, and use the space as theaters and offices, and the power sockets aren't just used for lamps anymore.
Call an electrician, they can actually take out the switch and have the sockets straight powered.
Call an electrician, they can actually take out the switch and have the sockets straight powered.
It is very easy, in fact if you want to learn basic wiring start with this. Turn off power at breaker, take cover off switch, take out switch, disconnect two wires (should both be black) and connect them together with a wire nut. Put a blank cover over the box. Turn breaker back on.
Tada. Outlet always on. Total cost 1 wire nut, one blank cover, call it $2 even with today's prices.
If you aren't comfortable with electricity though, call an electrician.
I know that, you know that, but I I've found there are just enough idiots on reddit that can't follow directions or are too incompetent to perform the work correctly and I don't want them to harm themselves.
I had a dimmer switch that would dim the wifi. At some point I removed it and shorted the wires, so now there's a switch that does nothing filling the hole. Better yet the ceiling light in that room operates only on a pull string and has no switch, so guests would without fail dim the wifi, until I pulled off the knob. (before the rewiring)
Or you flip the light switch, that had actually been a light switch and your dad complains because that one now controls the smart home system he MacGyvered during lockdown out of Shareware
When I was 12, I once took a shit in my friend's toilet in his new house. Only, the toilet I used wasn't hooked up to a water source yet. The sheer terror when I realized the toilet wouldn't flush. Someone in his family must've had to scoop my inaugural shit from that porcelain throne. I was never invited back.
If there's no water in the toilet bowl, you shouldn't use the toilet.
If there is water in the bowl but it won't flush, it's safe to assume the toilet is hooked up to the plumbing regardless of whether the tank is filling up with water. You can just dump more water directly into the bowl and it will flush. That's all you're doing when you press the handle anyway, you're letting water from the tank come into the bowl.
If you're in a weird emergency situation like this and you don't have a container you can fill up with water so you can dump enough in at once to trigger a flush, you instead need to open up the tank and put water in there. It might take you a while to carry handfuls of water from the sink to the tank, but it'll work! Now you can just press the handle and flush it normally.
There's a "light switch" in an hvac closet that turns off the power to the hvac. It's labeled HVAC. My tenants turned it off while I was out of town, then had me call an emergency hvac service tech because the heat was off.
The tech flipped the switch and charged me a couple hundred for the after hours call. When confronted, the tenants said they didn't know what HVAC stood for and thought it was the name of the shed.
In my last house, which had been renovated several times over the years, seemingly by amateurs and hobbyists with questionable skills and knowledge, there existed a light switch high on the wall in a bedroom closet, only a few inches below the ceiling. It was practically invisible as the closet was deep and there was no closet light. The switch was unlabeled.
We didn't know it was there for years until we were turning the bedroom into a nursery. Out of curiosity, I flipped it. The power to that entire side of the house went out.
I went to the breaker box and saw that this single switch had somehow tripped three breakers all at once. They would not reset until I flipped the switch back to its original position either. After that, we put a piece of brightly colored tape over the switch to keep it from accidentally being flipped, but so that we'd see it and remember to call an electrician about it.
Spoiler: We never called the electrician and we moved out a few years later.
All I know is that particular closet used to be a hallway closet, but got a new wall and had its door moved to be in the bedroom. None of that should have affected the electrical, though.
I am not even sure what you could do to the wiring to take down 3 circuits. If you cross 2 circuits on different phases and cause a 240 volt short that would absolutely trip the breakers, and also try to catch fire. 1 hot could come into each side of the switch, the confused two lines, okay. Terrible work especially leaving it but okay. But 3 breakers? What have they done! how have they done it? I wanna see behind that wall.
An older, wiser friend told me years ago that you should never stay with anyone. It’s just too awkward to be around other people 24/7 on their home ground. I used to stay with my parents when visiting from out-of-state. It was stressful, but at least I felt somewhat at home at their place. Now that they are gone, I’ve been stiff-arming entreaties from other relatives to stay with them when I visit. Making it easier to sidestep is the fact that everyone seems to have a giant house with no guest room. I have had relatives get genuinely upset when I decline to stay with them, and only afterwards does it come to light that what they had in mind was blowing up an air mattress in the basement with the nearest bathroom one flight up and the shower two floors away. I’m fortunate enough that a couple of nights at a decent hotel aren’t a burden. As long as that is the case, I’m taking a little privacy, a bed, a full, attached bath, and a breakfast buffet every time.
Hey don’t mess with someone’s raccoon traps. Those take forever to set up and are the perfect trap for intruders. I mean you need to remember to feed them but with a simple flip of a switch an intruder will regret all of their life choices.
at around 12/13 I slept over at a friend's house. Pooped in the middle of the night, nothing crazy, but the toilet clogged pretty much IMMEDIATELY.
id never clogged a toilet before and didn't know what to do, but I knew enough to turn the knob behind the toilet to stop it and went back to bed.
Next morning they weren't upset about the toilet clog, but the dad kept talking down to me about how "I don't know why you didn't hold down the flusher for 10 seconds, it wouldn't have clogged if you held it down for 10 seconds. Don't you know how toilets work?" He said this to me multiple times throughout breakfast.
I told him I didn't need to do that at my house and didn't know and he proceeded to talk to me like I'd never used a toilet before and EVERYONE knows you hold down the flusher for 10 seconds.
I'm 36 now and am still baffled by this interaction.
i've had something similar happen. i had gone with my mother to meet my aunt for the first time in her hometown. i was like 4 or 5 i think. i went to the bathroom and flushed and flooded the whole house. she beat she shit out of me because they didn't have running water. how tf was i supposed to know that??????? i still don't get how you don't have water but i flooded your house.
Sign above the toilet I don't notice until after I stand up to flush:
"Only liquids in the toilet. Put solids in trash. Do not flush poop, toilet paper, wet wipes, tampons, or vomit. Septic tank is a buried undetonated missile on a hair trigger armed by undissolved solids."
Bruh I literally got locked in my homies bathroom cause his lock was weird af had to call bro and be like yo I’m stuck in your bathroom I need help lmao
20 odd years ago, when the epitome of a "modern house" were these touch light switches where you could adjust the brightness by touching the switch on different places, one of my very-very-very rich friend invited us to their house one winter evening.
Another one of my friend tried to switch the living room lights on and kept fiddling with the light switches until my friend's dad bursted into the room, literally slapped on his wrist and sent all of us home.
It turned out, one of the switch he fiddled with controlled the automatic window blinds for the living room garden door and tried to fully open them, ripping the whole thing off of the wall as it was secured to the floor due to the storm we've had 2 days earlier. The only reason we didn't hear anything was that every single door and window in that house was sound-proofed to the point that we couldn't hear a heavy-ass motor ripping pieces of wood and stone and metal strips off the floor and wall until it gave way itself and crashed onto the raised patio leaving a huge hole on the slab.
Or the worst: having to take a shower and then change in the humid bathroom because you can't just walk out and dry off even covered in a towel because it's that weird.
I like to keep my visits simple, so I just routinely clog my hosts toilet. If they have more than one, I try it out too if they’ll let me. Alas, the hat trick still eludes me… my Everest.
Is it just me that has the tamest weird lightswitch of all? At the top and bottom of the stairs are lightswitches connected to the same lightbulb upstairs.
Unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean, this is a very common setup called a three pole switch. It’s so you can control the light without having to go back down the stairs to turn it off.
I'll take that over my Chicago-style 3-way switch. There's some fuckery going on at the lightbulb that is going to make me get in the ceiling to fix it eventually.
At my old house I had smart switches and the real ones were taped to the on position. Had someone flip them off and ask why the smart switch didn't work.
First time I met one of my now beat friends i broke the arm off a chair and pushed a window panel out of a door. Both were on the verge of breaking, I just happened to be the poor fucked who leaned on both items without realising they were broken
Closest to that which I have is the light switch in my bedroom which for years I thought did nothing (the overhead light had been removed by the previous tenant), but I later found out controls the outlet in the far corner of my bedroom after I plugged my alarm clock into it and then had to reset it that evening when I went to bed and realized that my clock was blinking 12:00 because the second you turn off the switch, you kill the clock.
Moved the clock to another outlet and moved my lamp to that one.
One of the light switches in this guest bedroom I was sleeping in had two switches. One was the bedroom's main light. The other, as I discovered at 1 am when I wanted to go to the bathroom and accidentally clicked that one, was somehow connected to the doorbell!!!!
I feel that.
I have a lightwd switch in the hallway that turns off the boiler and resets the thermostat.
When I moved in literally everyone had to press that red glowing switch.
I had to duct tape it and I still get questions regularly.
We had a switch at our old apartment that cut power to all the outlets on a specific wall. This wall happened to be the wall where the satellite cable port was and the best place for the tv. The tv, all four consoles, and the router were all plugged in to the same wall. I eventually had to cover the switch with tape because it was right next to the hall light.
I have a faulty closet door in my room that constantly falls off. If I set it up and don’t touch it then it’s fine. My dad came over to visit one night and I let him stay in my room. I didn’t think he would touch the door, but I guess he leaned on it and I heard the crash a few moments later
Our house has light switches that turn off certain outlets in every room. I’m sure it seemed like a good idea if you want to control lamps with them, but every room also has a switch that controls overhead lighting, so who needs lamps?
We finally got covers for those switches because our cleaning ladies kept hitting them and turning off essential things plugged into those outlets.
In my previous apartment we didn't have an electrical outlet in the bathroom. When the landlord decided to install one I guess he hooked it up to the bathroom light somehow. If you flipped the bathroom light switch off the outlet had no power.
I have 2 switches in my house that have have a completely unknown purpose. Twist is I'm an electrician, I just don't care enough to go crawling around the attic.
My apartment has 1 switch controlled outlet. If a grounded device is plugged in and the switch is turned on, it pops TWO different circuit breakers. I have informed management of this fact. They have no plans to change anything.
Yeah have a bunch of smart stuff in my house with switches and I've had house sitters shut switches off and then I have to re-do the networking for them because they've been offline long enough to not connect.
I'm not using any overly fancy towels in the bathroom. I've literally been told they were decorations before so, I'm just wiping on bottom pants legs near my shoes.
To be feral, you have to be a domesticated species. And raccoons are not domesticated, at least yet. Though city raccoons are starting to have evolutionary changes towards domestication. Things are like floppy ears and coat color changes, similar to what you see in the domesticated foxes in Russia.
Bought a house in October, there is a light switch in the entry coat closet but no light in the closet and I cannot figure out wtf it does. It's also a wifi switch so supposedly it does something that you might want to be able to control remotely...??? The only other wifi switches are for the front and back porch lights.
My ex had a light switch in her garage that was right by the door. I turned it off after we were in the freezer putting back the ice cream thinking I was turning off the garage light. An hour later her dad asked "who almost ruined the ice cream". Apparently that didnt control the lights, it controlled the outlet that the freezer was plugged into. I never touched that light switch again.
When you get up in the night to pee, and learn that you've never actually used their bathroom before and the toilet is clogged beyond repair and you catch on that your friends have been peeing into the tub.
One of my light switches goes to a switched outlet and rather than just a lamp it has the WiFi router, TV, Xbox, and a lamp. Lamp has its own switch so I put a bunch of blue tape over the wall switch so I didn't turn the Internet off... Again.
We have a bathroom sink faucet that no one can figure out how to turn off. It hitches weird and either continues to trickle slowly or goes back to full blast. The only two people who can successfully turn the water off are me and my neighbors daughter. Everyone else has to ask one of us for help.
At this point most people who come over know to only poop in the downstairs bathroom or to wash their hands in the kitchen.
Had a friend that would literally scold me for touching ANYTHING…she would make me feel stupid for it too. Like I didn’t know I wasnt supposed to touch the damn couch!
I was once looking for the kitchen light switch.
I discovered later that I had pressed the switch that cut off the power to the refrigerator, and they had to throw out everything
It’s important every house have a refrigerator kill switch. The reasons will become more apparent when the appliance revolution begins.
“Too many ads, so I turned it off”
It was getting snarky and kept saying to me, “You back again fatty? JFC eat an apple.”
“The apples are in you!” “…Fuck you anyway.”
Better throw out your food than get hospitalized because your fridge is apologizing to you
(Please note, the story about the UK woman named Carol with schizophrenia hospitalizing herself because she saw the "We're Sorry Carol" ad is probably false, but still. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Woman-with-schizophrenia-hospitalized-after-seeing-an-advert-on-Samsung-smart-fridge.1179479.0.html)
Whether or not this instance is true…I’ve seen the show, and if I were a soulless marketing droid (tm), this is exactly the sort of ad I would buy.
We don’t have a Pizza Hut logo burned into the lunar surface yet, but only bc it was found to be enormously expensive. Still, a non-zero number of marketing people have at least looked into it.
the cold war...
There will come soft rains
Is your refrigerator running? Shit man, hope you run faster.
My fridge has like a 2 foot cord. I think we will be fine
I have one in my current house that turns off electricity to the stove. It’s not an electric stove, but it DOES have an electric starter. Meaning that if you turn this switch off, you can blow up the house.
Why, just why
Keep your living situation exciting ig
You know that It Is a five minutes job ti bypass the switch? If you want dm me
I'm removing all the old sockets and switches to install new ones in my home
While I would love to, it's a rental.
I think that there's also some outlet back there being controlled by the same switch, and is probably the reason for the switch to begin with.
We've made do by putting a picture frame over it so that no guests explode us all.
"Oh can I, please?" 😁
I lived in a place once where the foundation was installed, then the A/C unit, then the house built. When the A/C failed, there was no way to replace it except by tearing it out (which the landlord was not in a financial situation to do). This is south Florida, so that was hideous for all of one summer. Thank God we moved out in the fall. That place could have used a good "blow-me-up" switch.
Nah, doesn't work that way.
Your stove will have a thermocouple and pilot even with an electronic starter. That thermocouple does not require electricity to function, and will shut off the gas supply if the pilot dies.
Your explanation makes sense, but even after reading it to my stove, it still continues releasing gas. Let me know when I should turn the switch back on.
Wait till you feel tipsy.
Most likely has an alternative flame supervision device, I bet if you read the instruction manual it would give you information on that device and how it works.
Probably, but that would require the instruction manual, which I don’t have. It’s a rental, the owner is an old Hispanic woman who pocket dials me once a week and then asks what I want. I highly doubt she has the instruction manual for this stove from the 1970s.
My electric gas stove with electronic starter, in fact, does not have a pilot light. Or a thermocouple. It will absolutely spew gas into the air if the stove knob is on and the little clicker doesn't get it lit.
Still has a flame supervision device to prevent that situation.
Lots of gas stoves with electric igniters have none of that.
In an airbnb the warm water in the kitchen sink wasn't working, there was this valve thingy at the base of the faucet, so I thought you maybe you needed to turn that. It didn't do anything, but then the next day the dishwasher stopped working. We started doing the dishes by hand but towards the end of the vacation we got so sick of doing that so we started to debug the dishwasher. Turns out that little valve at the faucet turns off the water to the dishwasher.
Since the comment police is on my ass here is a picture of the faucet: https://imgur.com/a/1dGn03m
Thanks for the image. I was thinking UNDER the sink! They make 2 in 1 valves and splitters for the dishwasher and sink. I was about to hop on the Dude that's normal bandwagon.
The light switch that looks like it would be for the hallway is actually the switch for the over fan.... over there.
I actually wrote NO in big letters across the light switch to stop my guests from actually hitting it.
I was pet/house sitting for a friend one time and could not find the light switch for the kitchen. I left it on all night because I tried every switch and none of them controlled this one specific light. My friend wasn’t mad that the light was left on all night, but he showed me a secret light switch hidden behind like coats or some shit.
"WRONG LEVER! Why do we even have that lever?"
That isn’t your fault, there’s no way.
Crazy because that would take about 3 minutes to fix.
I remember one time at my gf house, flipped some switches in the kitchen for some light. Next thing I know, her dad is mad because someone changed the time controlled lights for the backyard. Who puts those into the kitchen where you normally have light switches? The real ones for the kitchen where in the livingroom. Edit: spelling
This is our house actually! The kitchen light and the back deck light both have switched by the back door. BUT we have the kitchen light on a remote with a ceiling fan so really the switch is supposed to be always on and you control the light with the remote mounted on the living room side! And if you touch the wrong switch it can either turn off the back deck light entirely OR turn off the motion sensor so that the light never turns off!
My parents will screw up the kitchen lights every single time.
Switch covers. They’re so cheap and are a big help if you have hue lights haha https://amzn.to/48ynjuv
I mean, sure. That would be logical! But WE know so what’s the big deal? 😆
You know, and your parents know, but your parents' fingers have other plans.
This this this. I have them in all the rooms rigged for smart lighting. Also my apartment has an old fashioned switched outlet, I guess for when people wanted floor lamps and whatnot to have wall switch control. God damn nuisance as it's where I plug in my modem (right by the fiber jack). So many times I killed my own internet until I got some.
The only logical wall in our living room for the TV has the only outlet that connects to the light switch by the front door! My husband did remove the switch altogether for that one. Then we added a smart switch to the lamp in the outlet that doesn’t have a wall switch.
Honestly even for a house built in 1942 I don’t understand that was the only outlet chosen to connect to a switch but here we are.
I put plastic switch protectors on switches that aren't meant to be turned off
Or a piece of masking tape with a note on it.
Or you take a piss and then the weirdo controlling dad gets mad at your friend for letting you use XYZ innocuous bathroom.
The bathroom was near the handicapped grandmothers room and she had to hobble downstairs to use the half bath
i once used my friend's bathroom not knowing it was his nanas special jesus bathroom idk. it had crucifix and pictures of jesus everywhere and a plush red seat cover, and i took a dump there anyway. she was so mad and blasted him in portuguese and then he berated me for like 20 minutes
Disappointing, I expected more feral raccoons in this story.
Im sorry, i'll try harder next time
The electrician who wired the place either couldn't read, or was criminally insane.
My GFS grand and great grandfather build the house themselves. They also used whatever cables where available. Some sockets have 3 black wires. ( I'm Germany you usually have 1 red, 1 blue/black, 1 yellow/green)
Or in the case of my childhood home, they wanted it to look “more modern” so they added more light switches and outlets.
There is at least one, usually 2, outlets on every wall (most are installed upside down for an unknown reason) and there are light switches EVERYWHERE. There are 4 different switches that turn on/off the outdoor porch lights and one of them is upstairs. Two switches for the kitchen light/fan. 3 that turn on and off outlets in the living room. If you plug something in and it doesn’t work, I’d have to go around turning on every switch until it turns on. But of course some of the outlets just don’t work at all but you’d never know that until you turn on every switch on the first floor.
Then there’s one switch that doesn’t do anything. Like they ran out of things to attach it to and decided they didn’t need a fifth switch for the front porch lights.
I... I put a duplex outlet next to my kitchen sink when I first moved in.
Later on, I decided I needed a light above my sink just below the cabinet that I had installed there. So I took that duplex unit, removed one of the outlets and put in a switch.
I took the outlet, ran a new line and installed it above the cabinet so I had an outlet up there that I could use for the light that I was going to install above the sink. Easy access to the switch for the light above the sink. Worked great.
Then, I was working on figuring out a good location for the router in our house, and the most central location was above the kitchen sink, so I installed the router on the spare plug on that outlet that controlled the light and told everyone in the family to not use the light switch until I swapped things out. They all listened.
My house sitter, did not. Nor did my cousin, who thought it was the switch for the non-existent garbage disposal.
It's now been 3 or so years, and I still have not done anything to prevent people from flipping that switch and randomly turning my internet off.
Get the shovel Morty.
My house growing up had this, and the motion light for the driveway. But ours had like, a cover for it so you couldn't hit it by accident.
When smart switches first started, I had one put in my bathroom, and if you flipped it, it would trigger an ITTT, which would wait 30 seconds, and loudly play farting sounds from a bathroom speaker. I placed it closest to the door, cause that's where the light switch usually is, and I thought it was hilarious every time someone new came over and flipped it.
What is with kitchens and esoteric placed light switches?
A few other comments here have mentioned kitchen light switches.
I admit I myself still mistake the hallway and kitchen light switch at home sometimes because they're both next to each other (outside the kitchen of course).
And I've been at my sister's place several times now (dog likes to make a pitstop there during walks) for years and I still haven't found the kitchen light switch in her home.
This is because the dad did the electrics and they're shit at it
My grandpa did this. The porch light switch is by the door going outside. And depending on how many times you flip it it can be on,off, or motion sensor. The kitchen light switch is by the door going into the living room (still in the kitchen though)
We have lived in our house for close to 30 years. The light switches have been the same for 30 years. Yet he still came in, flipped the porch light about a dozen times (screwing up the setting) before finally going "this isn't the kitchen light switch"
Hello, the livingroom!
Just now noticed the mistake, already fixed
yeah I just put tags I engraved at work under each switch with a label saying what is for what.
"FAN" "LIGHT" "DINING ROOM LIGHT" "COUNTER LIGHT" "KITCHEN LIGHT" "USELESS SWITCH" "COUNTER STRIKE COUNTER"
Same situation in my house growing up. Dad installed motion flood lights in the backyard. The switch was located in the kitchen. Turning them off, then back in would make them stay on. And again for motion mode. But could never tell what mode it was in unless you were patient.
"Why do we even HAVE that lever?"
that reminded me of the "magic" switch story: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
Neat story
Wow I haven't seen a link to that story in the wild in at least 15 years.
Nice reference.
I have a light switch in my bedroom at my current apartment that I have no idea what it does.
There is no overhead light in the room, and the only other switch in the room is for the closet light.
In my computer/gaming room there is a switch that I found out is connected to one of the electrical outlets, which is where my router is plugged in, so that switch just stays on all the time until my gf accidentally shuts it off trying to turn off the closet light in that room.
So I thought maybe the one in my bedroom did a similar thing controlling one of the outlets, but I tested all the outlets and the switch using a lamp, and it did nothing. I really don't know what it's for, and I gave up trying to figure out. One day I might accidentally figure out what it does, but so far it hasn't released any feral raccoons
Old Stephen Wright joke:
“There’s a switch in my apartment that doesn’t do anything…I flipped it every day, until I got a letter from a lady in West Germany saying ‘cut it out’”
Yeah, that is an old joke.
As advertised!
I bet it one time controlled an outlet but then you got a landlord special of replacements of your outlets and they didn't wire it properly
or the room used to have an overhead light that had similar happen to it
My apartment is kinda like this. The top socket in some outlets are controlled by light switches, while the bottoms always have power. But only some of the outlets, the others work like normal lol
These are a relic of old construction called lamp outlets, for you to plug a lamp into and control with the light switch. A lot of elderly people use them at my property I work at but like nobody else does lol
Interesting, thanks for the info! I assumed that's what they were for since the rooms with those outlets don't have any overhead ceiling lights, so I have to use them for floor lamps haha
FYI, in many places it will be obvious when an outlet is controlled by a light switch, because the outlet will be oriented upside down.
In the US at least, it's somewhat common to install outlets upside down for safety purposes.
What I had no idea!! That's cool!
Check the bathrooms' exhaust fans. My mystery switch turned out to let you switch the exhaust fan for the upstairs washroom so you don't have to go back up after showering in the morning before you leave for work.
Check both the bottom and the top receptacle of each outlet for the switch. Depending on how the switch and outlet are installed, it’s possible for a switch to only control the bottom or top receptacle while the other one is not controlled by the switch at all.
I had to tape over the switch in my office that controls the only convenient outlet where I put my computer, monitors, everything.
My daughter likes to just come in to the office and play with the lights. OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON.
That was a fun day.
I would assume that there used to be an overhead light in that room, but at one point the landlord removed the fixture and covered up the hole, but never removed the switch.
Do you live in my apartment? i have the same setup with the router and a light switch in another room that does absolutely nothing
This is like that one episode of friends. Why don’t you check your neighbors TV?
Do you not have another outlet in that room you could plug your router into? Or in a different room? It's convenient for when you need to restart it, but I would just move it to avoid the risk
Three separate times, I've accidentally broken the shower in an unfamiliar setting, trying to figure out how it works. I'm pretty sure I'm cursed.
tbf, figuring out other people's showers is a nightmare
To actually break it during the process of figuring it out is kinda impressive though. Usually you just give yourself a ice cold or scolding hot surprise while fiddling with all the knobs.
I have no idea why there are so many inconsistent designs. It's like the entire shower and bath faucet control industry is managed by lunatics.
It seems like insanity that there's anything other than the most obvious of controls.
But no, you won't be able to swap from bath to shower or change the temperature or something, there's absolutely no controls to even get wrong so you ask the host and they come in, look at you like an idiot and press in a shower tile like it's a spy movie or rotate the curtain rail or shove a finger into a hole on the underside of the bath tap or something.
And you're the weird one for having a perfectly good system with one lever to turn the water on and off, and another to control the temperature.
You have two levers? What kind of mansion do you own? I have one knob that controls the tub faucet, hot or cold, and then a pull-lever on the faucet
My shower is so old that the showerhead leaks, so my grandpa put a valve on the showerhead that you need to open first. I always tell anyone who needs to shower here that you need to do that, because I know how weird it is. I don't know why everyone with a weird anything doesn't tell their guests that kind of stuff.
Well at least you’re not this guy: https://youtu.be/V6MQC4YwA8s
Fuck me, we have a dual sink in our upstairs guest bathroom that they screwed up the lines on. So the hot comes out the cold, etc.
I would swap them myself but they built this house with this brittle ass CPVC piping so anytime I try to do any plumbing it breaks and fucks everything up. The plumber wanted $300 to swap it last time because he ALSO does not want to fuck with the CPVC...
Anyways. I have the faucets clearly marked but one time my MIL was over and trying to help my daughter wash her hands. Shoved her hands right into the hot water.
Goddamn so many things in this house are backwards and too expensive to fix.
man do i feel this. my kitchen sink is backwards, the breaker panel is completely mislabeled, the toilet didn't have a shut off valve and the galvanized piping was completely fcked and rotted my bathroom flooring leaking into the basement. i bought this house late october and ive already spent 4k fixing the bathroom *alone 😭😭😭 just finished refurnishing the pee stained tub and that took a week. i'm running out of motivation already!
That is when you ask for help 😭
Wanted to help clean up my friend's garage. Grabbed a broom to sweep some leaves out. Immediate enormous cloud of dust comes out of the broom.
"Oh no, that's the broom we used to sweep up concrete 4 years ago, don't breathe in that cloud!"
At least it wasn't, "that's our asbestos bucket" or "we keep the ricin in those jars."
You jest but they did have to do asbestos removal with their basement (they did it professionally, not with the garage broom)
You should always assume the non-metallic bucket next to the fireplace, full of ashes, is the asbestos bucket. That's where it lives!
If someone has removed the asbestos bucket from its rightful context and you've spontaneously decided to grind it into a fine powder to roll around in, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
I have a landlord special light switch that turns off my wifi
This just sounds like you have your router or modem plugged into an outlet controlled by a switch.
This is the crux of this post to me. Too much shit gets put into a lamp outlet. I'm sorry your grandma thought she was going to die because her CPAP went off when we used a light switch as they're designed in the bathroom and you have 3rd world electrical wiring.
TIL outlets can be controlled by a switch-??
Yep, fairly common in rooms without overhead lighting, in the US at least. It's so you can plug in a lamp and control it with the switch.
fascinating
That's the "my kid was misbehaving so now I'll ruin the mood for everyone as punishment"
Some outlets meant for lamps are controlled by switches. Sometimes it’s not the whole outlet but just the top or bottom plug. Try the other plug.
It is actually really common to have a one or two outlets in a formal room be controlled by light switches to turn on/off lamps instead having an overhead light in the room. Obliviously younger generations tend to not want to keep a formal living room, and use the space as theaters and offices, and the power sockets aren't just used for lamps anymore.
Call an electrician, they can actually take out the switch and have the sockets straight powered.
It is very easy, in fact if you want to learn basic wiring start with this. Turn off power at breaker, take cover off switch, take out switch, disconnect two wires (should both be black) and connect them together with a wire nut. Put a blank cover over the box. Turn breaker back on.
Tada. Outlet always on. Total cost 1 wire nut, one blank cover, call it $2 even with today's prices.
If you aren't comfortable with electricity though, call an electrician.
I know that, you know that, but I I've found there are just enough idiots on reddit that can't follow directions or are too incompetent to perform the work correctly and I don't want them to harm themselves.
Fair call. Someone will end up with a lightbulb up their ass.
I have a switch in the hallway in my apartment that is connected to every outlet in the living room. It’s right next to the hallway light switch..
I had a dimmer switch that would dim the wifi. At some point I removed it and shorted the wires, so now there's a switch that does nothing filling the hole. Better yet the ceiling light in that room operates only on a pull string and has no switch, so guests would without fail dim the wifi, until I pulled off the knob. (before the rewiring)
Or you flip the light switch, that had actually been a light switch and your dad complains because that one now controls the smart home system he MacGyvered during lockdown out of Shareware
When I was 12, I once took a shit in my friend's toilet in his new house. Only, the toilet I used wasn't hooked up to a water source yet. The sheer terror when I realized the toilet wouldn't flush. Someone in his family must've had to scoop my inaugural shit from that porcelain throne. I was never invited back.
If it was hooked up to plumbing they could have manually flushed it by pouring a couple gallons of water into it.
If there's no water in the toilet bowl, you shouldn't use the toilet.
If there is water in the bowl but it won't flush, it's safe to assume the toilet is hooked up to the plumbing regardless of whether the tank is filling up with water. You can just dump more water directly into the bowl and it will flush. That's all you're doing when you press the handle anyway, you're letting water from the tank come into the bowl.
If you're in a weird emergency situation like this and you don't have a container you can fill up with water so you can dump enough in at once to trigger a flush, you instead need to open up the tank and put water in there. It might take you a while to carry handfuls of water from the sink to the tank, but it'll work! Now you can just press the handle and flush it normally.
They should told you wtfff
Is the host Doofenshmirtz?
Lol I remember that episode too haha
In a new apartment we had a light switch that controlled the power to the fridge. Guess how we found out
Bride of Frankenstein: "If he pulls that lever, the whole castle will collapse."
And why did the builder install a lever like that?
Same reason you would install a lever that opens the trapdoor to the crocodile pit.
To bury the evidence
I was at a Thanksgiving when one of the guests volunteered to turn on the ovens…..host kept her unused pots and pans in there…….
why would someone.... volunteer to turn on the oven-..??
we keep some of our pans and baking trays in there as well though because we have nowhere else to put them lol
need to put them on top of the stove when we use the oven
There's a "light switch" in an hvac closet that turns off the power to the hvac. It's labeled HVAC. My tenants turned it off while I was out of town, then had me call an emergency hvac service tech because the heat was off.
The tech flipped the switch and charged me a couple hundred for the after hours call. When confronted, the tenants said they didn't know what HVAC stood for and thought it was the name of the shed.
the name of the shed… im more impressed than anything else with that thought process
that Rick and Morty moment with 3 light switch clicks
Shit, whenever i walk past something or use something it just breaks, within the confines of my flat
I have a light switch in the living room that turns the power off in the kitchen, and there are also no lights in the living room.
In my last house, which had been renovated several times over the years, seemingly by amateurs and hobbyists with questionable skills and knowledge, there existed a light switch high on the wall in a bedroom closet, only a few inches below the ceiling. It was practically invisible as the closet was deep and there was no closet light. The switch was unlabeled.
We didn't know it was there for years until we were turning the bedroom into a nursery. Out of curiosity, I flipped it. The power to that entire side of the house went out.
I went to the breaker box and saw that this single switch had somehow tripped three breakers all at once. They would not reset until I flipped the switch back to its original position either. After that, we put a piece of brightly colored tape over the switch to keep it from accidentally being flipped, but so that we'd see it and remember to call an electrician about it.
Spoiler: We never called the electrician and we moved out a few years later.
That is some prime electrical fuckery right there. I can't even think how it would get to 3 breakers.
All I know is that particular closet used to be a hallway closet, but got a new wall and had its door moved to be in the bedroom. None of that should have affected the electrical, though.
I am not even sure what you could do to the wiring to take down 3 circuits. If you cross 2 circuits on different phases and cause a 240 volt short that would absolutely trip the breakers, and also try to catch fire. 1 hot could come into each side of the switch, the confused two lines, okay. Terrible work especially leaving it but okay. But 3 breakers? What have they done! how have they done it? I wanna see behind that wall.
An older, wiser friend told me years ago that you should never stay with anyone. It’s just too awkward to be around other people 24/7 on their home ground. I used to stay with my parents when visiting from out-of-state. It was stressful, but at least I felt somewhat at home at their place. Now that they are gone, I’ve been stiff-arming entreaties from other relatives to stay with them when I visit. Making it easier to sidestep is the fact that everyone seems to have a giant house with no guest room. I have had relatives get genuinely upset when I decline to stay with them, and only afterwards does it come to light that what they had in mind was blowing up an air mattress in the basement with the nearest bathroom one flight up and the shower two floors away. I’m fortunate enough that a couple of nights at a decent hotel aren’t a burden. As long as that is the case, I’m taking a little privacy, a bed, a full, attached bath, and a breakfast buffet every time.
Omg I hate blow up mattresses, just let me sleep on your super comfy sofa please lol
Hey don’t mess with someone’s raccoon traps. Those take forever to set up and are the perfect trap for intruders. I mean you need to remember to feed them but with a simple flip of a switch an intruder will regret all of their life choices.
at around 12/13 I slept over at a friend's house. Pooped in the middle of the night, nothing crazy, but the toilet clogged pretty much IMMEDIATELY.
id never clogged a toilet before and didn't know what to do, but I knew enough to turn the knob behind the toilet to stop it and went back to bed.
Next morning they weren't upset about the toilet clog, but the dad kept talking down to me about how "I don't know why you didn't hold down the flusher for 10 seconds, it wouldn't have clogged if you held it down for 10 seconds. Don't you know how toilets work?" He said this to me multiple times throughout breakfast.
I told him I didn't need to do that at my house and didn't know and he proceeded to talk to me like I'd never used a toilet before and EVERYONE knows you hold down the flusher for 10 seconds.
I'm 36 now and am still baffled by this interaction.
i've had something similar happen. i had gone with my mother to meet my aunt for the first time in her hometown. i was like 4 or 5 i think. i went to the bathroom and flushed and flooded the whole house. she beat she shit out of me because they didn't have running water. how tf was i supposed to know that??????? i still don't get how you don't have water but i flooded your house.
Sign above the toilet I don't notice until after I stand up to flush:
"Only liquids in the toilet. Put solids in trash. Do not flush poop, toilet paper, wet wipes, tampons, or vomit. Septic tank is a buried undetonated missile on a hair trigger armed by undissolved solids."
I never felt so grateful to have diarrhea.
When I was visiting my friend in a secure unit of a psychiatric hospital I hit the panic button instead of the door release.
That was an intense three minutes.
Bruh I literally got locked in my homies bathroom cause his lock was weird af had to call bro and be like yo I’m stuck in your bathroom I need help lmao
20 odd years ago, when the epitome of a "modern house" were these touch light switches where you could adjust the brightness by touching the switch on different places, one of my very-very-very rich friend invited us to their house one winter evening.
Another one of my friend tried to switch the living room lights on and kept fiddling with the light switches until my friend's dad bursted into the room, literally slapped on his wrist and sent all of us home.
It turned out, one of the switch he fiddled with controlled the automatic window blinds for the living room garden door and tried to fully open them, ripping the whole thing off of the wall as it was secured to the floor due to the storm we've had 2 days earlier. The only reason we didn't hear anything was that every single door and window in that house was sound-proofed to the point that we couldn't hear a heavy-ass motor ripping pieces of wood and stone and metal strips off the floor and wall until it gave way itself and crashed onto the raised patio leaving a huge hole on the slab.
We've never been invited there again...
Or the worst: having to take a shower and then change in the humid bathroom because you can't just walk out and dry off even covered in a towel because it's that weird.
I like to keep my visits simple, so I just routinely clog my hosts toilet. If they have more than one, I try it out too if they’ll let me. Alas, the hat trick still eludes me… my Everest.
Is it just me that has the tamest weird lightswitch of all? At the top and bottom of the stairs are lightswitches connected to the same lightbulb upstairs.
Unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean, this is a very common setup called a three pole switch. It’s so you can control the light without having to go back down the stairs to turn it off.
So I don't even qualify for weird switches. My switches aren't even weird.
We love you anyways :)
You and your normal switch having-ass are not welcome here /s
I'll take that over my Chicago-style 3-way switch. There's some fuckery going on at the lightbulb that is going to make me get in the ceiling to fix it eventually.
Enough chicago three way switches and you give up completely at ever understanding your own home.
A decade in and you'll still be just randomly hitting switches until you get the result you desire.
Thankfully not. I'm slowly rewiring all of the flipper nonsense I find in my walls.
At my old house I had smart switches and the real ones were taped to the on position. Had someone flip them off and ask why the smart switch didn't work.
First time I met one of my now beat friends i broke the arm off a chair and pushed a window panel out of a door. Both were on the verge of breaking, I just happened to be the poor fucked who leaned on both items without realising they were broken
Closest to that which I have is the light switch in my bedroom which for years I thought did nothing (the overhead light had been removed by the previous tenant), but I later found out controls the outlet in the far corner of my bedroom after I plugged my alarm clock into it and then had to reset it that evening when I went to bed and realized that my clock was blinking 12:00 because the second you turn off the switch, you kill the clock.
Moved the clock to another outlet and moved my lamp to that one.
One of the light switches in this guest bedroom I was sleeping in had two switches. One was the bedroom's main light. The other, as I discovered at 1 am when I wanted to go to the bathroom and accidentally clicked that one, was somehow connected to the doorbell!!!!
I feel that. I have a lightwd switch in the hallway that turns off the boiler and resets the thermostat. When I moved in literally everyone had to press that red glowing switch. I had to duct tape it and I still get questions regularly.
My roommate has a switch thats taped so you physically can’t turn it off and it’s labeled “oxygen” 😭 wont tell anyone what it actually is
He should have labelled it 'gravity...'
We had a switch at our old apartment that cut power to all the outlets on a specific wall. This wall happened to be the wall where the satellite cable port was and the best place for the tv. The tv, all four consoles, and the router were all plugged in to the same wall. I eventually had to cover the switch with tape because it was right next to the hall light.
NOOO don’t unplug the blender or the refrigerator outlet goes out too! We keep that there just to keep the outlet powered
There is a light switch in my basement that if you turn it off the router and modem that are on the second floor will turn off.
I have a faulty closet door in my room that constantly falls off. If I set it up and don’t touch it then it’s fine. My dad came over to visit one night and I let him stay in my room. I didn’t think he would touch the door, but I guess he leaned on it and I heard the crash a few moments later
Our house has light switches that turn off certain outlets in every room. I’m sure it seemed like a good idea if you want to control lamps with them, but every room also has a switch that controls overhead lighting, so who needs lamps?
We finally got covers for those switches because our cleaning ladies kept hitting them and turning off essential things plugged into those outlets.
In my previous apartment we didn't have an electrical outlet in the bathroom. When the landlord decided to install one I guess he hooked it up to the bathroom light somehow. If you flipped the bathroom light switch off the outlet had no power.
I have 2 switches in my house that have have a completely unknown purpose. Twist is I'm an electrician, I just don't care enough to go crawling around the attic.
My apartment has 1 switch controlled outlet. If a grounded device is plugged in and the switch is turned on, it pops TWO different circuit breakers. I have informed management of this fact. They have no plans to change anything.
That light switch actually overflows the downstairs bathroom with poop from your own butt. Sorry 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah have a bunch of smart stuff in my house with switches and I've had house sitters shut switches off and then I have to re-do the networking for them because they've been offline long enough to not connect.
That seems like a bad design. Are we talking months or something?
This seems potentially relevant to /r/homeassistant
I'm not using any overly fancy towels in the bathroom. I've literally been told they were decorations before so, I'm just wiping on bottom pants legs near my shoes.
Aren't all raccoons feral? Wouldn't that be redundant, like saying assless chaps?
No, some people have pet raccoons, especially in the southern US.
I was slightly wrong.
To be feral, you have to be a domesticated species. And raccoons are not domesticated, at least yet. Though city raccoons are starting to have evolutionary changes towards domestication. Things are like floppy ears and coat color changes, similar to what you see in the domesticated foxes in Russia.
Bought a house in October, there is a light switch in the entry coat closet but no light in the closet and I cannot figure out wtf it does. It's also a wifi switch so supposedly it does something that you might want to be able to control remotely...??? The only other wifi switches are for the front and back porch lights.
My ex had a light switch in her garage that was right by the door. I turned it off after we were in the freezer putting back the ice cream thinking I was turning off the garage light. An hour later her dad asked "who almost ruined the ice cream". Apparently that didnt control the lights, it controlled the outlet that the freezer was plugged into. I never touched that light switch again.
This made me laugh way hard that it should have
This made me laugh way hard that it should have
Same here, man, same here...
Gma was discharged from the hospital with CRITICAL medical equipment last night.
An hour and a half drive home, get her up to the 5th floor, aaaaand I broke it setting it up, even though I was touching it like it was a baby.
Had to go to a local ER and sit for 5 hours before they admitted her.
That thing would survive battles in my house, but this law proved true at someone else's apartment.
“FLIP the toggle”
Where's the switch to feed the raccoons so they stop destroying the place? 😭
when you use the fancy guest bathroom that nobody is supposed to use, enter, or look at, ever.
When you get up in the night to pee, and learn that you've never actually used their bathroom before and the toilet is clogged beyond repair and you catch on that your friends have been peeing into the tub.
So you pee in the tub, and never stay over again.
One of my light switches goes to a switched outlet and rather than just a lamp it has the WiFi router, TV, Xbox, and a lamp. Lamp has its own switch so I put a bunch of blue tape over the wall switch so I didn't turn the Internet off... Again.
We have a bathroom sink faucet that no one can figure out how to turn off. It hitches weird and either continues to trickle slowly or goes back to full blast. The only two people who can successfully turn the water off are me and my neighbors daughter. Everyone else has to ask one of us for help.
At this point most people who come over know to only poop in the downstairs bathroom or to wash their hands in the kitchen.
I'll replace the faucet one of these years.
Had a friend that would literally scold me for touching ANYTHING…she would make me feel stupid for it too. Like I didn’t know I wasnt supposed to touch the damn couch!