 
Support Wrong Planet!
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Mutanatia
Phoenix
Joined: Jun 02, 2008
Age: 22
Posts: 550
|
 Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:28 pm Post subject: How the **** is this my fault? |
 |
|
Situation: Oftentimes, my mom seems to be blaming me for the electricity bill going up. Today, I saw that my brother had left the TV on, whilst he was downstairs--not only that, but the light in the dining room was on as well.
My action: I shut the TV off, and the light in the dining room off, leaving the light in the basement, where my brother presumably was, on.
Result: My brother comes up from the basement, turns the TV back on, and turns the light on in the dining room. Apparently, he had been moving stuff up. He then proceeds to give me an attitude like "It's all YOUR fault," and tells me "I was watching the TV."
So somehow, it is MY fault that *I* shut the stuff off when in reality he was--in the situation I had been introduced to at the time--wasting electricity in the process. I think that this is a case of me not knowing/misinterpreting what I had seen as well as him being a bit wasteful in the process. But yet, how is it ONLY my fault that I had done something so small that it has to cause him to have an attitude with me. I don't understand :'( |
|
| Back to top |
|
LordoftheMonkeys
Pileated woodpecker
Joined: Aug 16, 2009
Age: 20
Posts: 184
Location: Inside my own head
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| I generally wouldn't be bothered by this. People bi**h at me all the time; I don't care. Maybe it's different for other aspies. |
|
| Back to top |
|
Vexcalibur
Phoenix
Joined: Jan 18, 2008
Posts: 1154
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
As you said it, it is something small. I recommend you to go on with your life. If your brother for some reason can't forget this small event. That's surely not your fault.
_________________
How dare we be different. |
|
| Back to top |
|
PaganMom
Sea Gull
Joined: Nov 05, 2009
Posts: 218
Location: Middle Of Nowhere, BFE, The Deep South
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I don't know whose fault it is about the power bill, but he didn't have to get ugly when you turned something off when thee was nobody in the room. Tell him "you move, you lose" . Thats my kids mantra. You walk out of the room without letting somebody else know and your seat and the tv, the stereo, the light etc can be taken away. Sucks but as the Mom I get to walk in and say MOVE.
Now for your power bill. The power company can give you information about how much you have been using. Ask them for a reccomendation. With the whole going green thing, a lot of them are doing things like that.
There is a way to make the meter turn slower [edited for content by sinsboldly]. You have to take it off before the meter reader comes though. My husbands an electrician. I can't say it here.
PaganMom |
|
| Back to top |
|
hiker7
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Jul 19, 2008
Age: 49
Posts: 57
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Had this happen to me about 20 years ago, I had many electronics projects and experiments. Long story short, I moved out a few years later, the bill still remained high, maybe only dropping a dollar or two a month. A year after that, my parents stopped using and got rid of an old refrigerator in the basement. The electricity bill then dropped by over a third. So it may be a bad appliance or something else, not you, causing it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
PaganMom
Sea Gull
Joined: Nov 05, 2009
Posts: 218
Location: Middle Of Nowhere, BFE, The Deep South
|
| Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
High power bills are how they find grow houses sometimes. Really.
PaganMom |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
|
