Gaslight

[stephbg]

Gaslight (v). To attempt to drive another person crazy by manipulating their environment in such a way as to suggest the presence of another person of whom you deny the existence.

I just popped out to the shop (the motivational quality of chocolate can raise the dead) and on my return opened up the fridge to stash the iced coffee I'd bought for Husband. Master's is no Farmer's Union, but I can still buy his love with a steady supply of the stuff.

Opened the fridge, no light. Hmmm, thought I, dead lightglobe? I had a listen - no fridge noises. I glanced about and plenty of other appliances were busy churning out CO2 so I didn't think we'd lost power (not the microwave, we've actually turned that off at the wall, so the planet's going to be fine). Still, our house wiring is a little twitchy (rather like mine), so I went out to check the safety switches. All fine.

Please, thought I in the general direction of the heartlessly cold fridge, don't be dead. I know, I'll turn the power off then on again. That frequently solves problems with the TV, the PC and the cat.

I reached through the gap to reach the fridge power point...

feel the tension?...

...to discover that it was already turned off at the switch. Huh? I wasn't aware appliances could do that by themselves. Husband left for work a few hours ago and so I await his return to see if he was inspired to this act. Perhaps while looking for his keys. He often does strange things while looking for his keys, but this would be a new one.

Or I did it myself, being rather more affected by pain medication than I was aware of (nice thought, having just been for a short drive). Or there's an axe murderer in the house right now.

Or Husband is bored with my current level of insanity and is poking me with sticks to see what happens. I blog is what happens these days.

EDIT (the following day):Husband confessed it was he - he was going to wipe down the shelves in the fridge and had turned off the power in readiness (our fridge being the type to beep if the door is left open)... and then forgot. Easily distracted, that lad.

Comments

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Curious indeed.

I think the time I most questioned my sanity was while I was stacking supermarket shelves as a student. I'd filled an entire shelf with medium sized milo tins earlier that evening. Then I found another box. Looked at the shelf, and it was bare.

Apparently there are two sizes of tin between big and small, rather than the one I'd assumed, but it took several minutes of increasingly disturbed hunting to find the tins I'd placed earlier.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

The fridge is not my choice of appliances for the 'turn things off at the socket' energy saving campaign.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

:-)