Scene: ScienceGirl is making a lovely soup for dinner, Hubby is off somewhere in the house, suspiciously quiet.
Electricity goes out.
Hubby: Oh-oh!
SG: Did you do it?
Hubby: I may have. Are the neighbors out also?
SG (pops her head outside): Yep, everything is black. Even the street lights are out, which either means they are on the same circuit or the outage is much bigger than our immediate neighborhood.
Hubby: If it is that big, I don't think I could have done it.
SG: What did you do?
Hubby: I may have overloaded the circuit.
SG: Ok. Well, don't tell the neighbors.
(The whole neighborhood is outside by this point).
SG: Crank this flashlight, and lets eat some soup!
20 minutes later, the light comes back on.
Hubby: (running away) I can test it! I am going to try to do it again!
SG: (Rolls her eyes.)
Hubby: Nope, I guess I didn't do it.
SG: Yeah, but you only partially replicated your experiment.
Hubby: Is it my turn to roll my eyes yet?
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3 comments:
It reminds me of this comic by xkcd. The sad thing is that it's true :-)
HA. I hate to stereotype by saying, "typical man", but I can't help it!
Great Blog, I happened on it randomly and it made my lunch brake much more entertaining. thx!
Amanda - it's like living in a comic :) He now says that the electrical engineer in him doesn't think he caused the outage, but that the statistician thinks he did :)
Jewels - welcome!
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