Ahh, that sounds like something I would do. hehe Extra points for not burning the house down, though. 😉

Did I ever tell you that my old professor realized she’d lost her hearing when she burned three separate tea kettles into slag while waiting to hear the whistles?

She started heating her tea water in the microwave instead.

Oh my goodness.

Though this is not quite as bad as the lady who also shops at my LYS who washed her yarn in hanks and wanted to speed the drying process by putting it in a hot oven.
Baked her yarn.
Singed the outer layers, which she then proceeded to cut off.
Then brought the leftovers to the shop to see if anything could be salvaged.

I think you lucked out in that the shawl is safe (and thank goodness, so are you).

Yikes, Alison! Glad you didn’t burn the house down! Now wouldn’t that be one for the headlines, but seriously, I’m glad you’re alright.
Box fan. That’s what I use. low setting. :^)

I’m not quite myself today. I can’t help mentioning, however, that my late husband had difficulty hearing. If he had shirts that needed ironing, he wanted to iron them himself. The iron is kept in the basement. One day I was instructed to use a special iron switch (that had magically appeared on the ceiling). The iron is plugged into the switch which has a leetle light that’s a part of it. When I turn the iron on, the light comes on. And of course, when I turn it off…You know…. even if you have excellent hearing it’s quite difficult to tell about that iron: on or off, if you just go by the iron’s indicators themselves whatever they are. Brilliant. An indicator that you don’t need to listen for. I have no clue where one finds such switches, but I do have a reliable source of such info.

I don’t feel so bad. More than once i have turned the water in the kitchen off, sat in the dining room next door and thought,”my tha trefigerator is loud”. Yup, didn’t turn the water all the way off. apparently running water sounds alot like my fridge throught the hearing aids…..Flip side, I have thought I didn’t turn the water off and it was the fridge. Oh the joy of hearing impaired living….

No harm, no foul. 😉

I can understand the hearing thing tho I’m not nar as bad on that side as some. I’ve had some hearing loss since I was a little kid and to this day still have some difficulty understanding things said to me if the person is facing away, in another room etc. I’m glad you didnt burn down the house and also that your shawl came out good! 🙂

My teakettle is a hand-me-down from my parents because it doesn’t have a whistle. The original whistle was very annoying, and so my dad took it off.. but as his hearing got worse, he couldn’t hear it boil anymore and would forget it. So they got another teakettle with a whistle, and I inherited this one. Which I am pretty careful about not leaving unattended, for obvious reasons! (But I can see and hear the stove from the living room so it’s not like I have to watch it boil.)

Now the iron and the space heater- they’re different. I have a firm and unbreakable rule that they are off and *unplugged* before I leave the room.

well, that could have been bad. I have a love/hate relationship with blowdryers. I need it in the morning so I can look halfway decent for work. But ever since one went crazy and started shooting flames out while in my hand, I’m a little wary of them…

Oh no! I’m glad you’re okay and that the house is still in one piece!