::sigh::
He just put it in and left it again.
I can't bear to tear up the toaster since I helped pay for it.
I don't really want to make a nasty rude sign because he's an old man and I try to be respectful of old coots like him, even if he is a hard-shell Democrat.
I thought about unplugging it, but other people use it, too, and they seem to be smart enough to figure out the magical thing we call electricity.
So, when I smelled the tell-tale whiffs of scorching bread, I went out there and turned it off. And pulled the door open so it would get the bread away from the still hot toaster element. It still got a bit too black, though, and the smell is still hanging around from yesterday. And the day before. And the day before that.
He just now came back (after many, MANY minutes) and didn't seem to think it odd that the door of the oven was open, nor that his toast wasn't in flames. He has this odd under-his-breath mumble that he does all the time, and he just mumbled "oh toast hm toast huh good," then he got it and walked off. Apparently in his world, toaster ovens open themselves and allow toast to escape, or the toast itself pressed against the door with sufficient force to open it.
In any case, being unwilling to make an ass out of myself over something as stupid as toast, I have now backed myself into the corner of being the official toaster oven watcher. And, apparently, official toast blogger.
My life is complete.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at December 2, 2005 10:28 AMNow we're starting to see the whole picture. It's not burnt toast this guy wants. He wants you to toast his bread for him. Is he recently widowed?
Reckon he'd take the hint if you provided a conventional pop-up toaster with an adjustable timer?
Posted by: BillW at December 2, 2005 12:01 PMI don't think that's it, either. He's got a wife--maybe he's fixing the toast the way she always does. But I really don't think he thinks about what he's doing--he's just oblivious to everything, in the way that we civil servants can get after decades of pushing pieces of paper from one side of the desk to the other.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 2, 2005 12:07 PM