Thank you! I may have changed in my old age. I remember you too 
I will nitpick that it was not a mistake, but a difference of opinion. As a zombie, if it makes @Czarcasm happier to be more right and more knowledgeable than I (whether he knows me or not) - I will give him that because happiness is key
It’s sort of like, my senior year of college, on the dorm request form I put down that I’d like a room with a built-in bathroom. Which everyone would like, of course, but apparently I was the only one who put it on the form, so I got it.
In other things I think but don’t get to say outloud - I have never had anyone in an interview tell me they are not a “fast learner” or “hard worker” but I just smile and nod.
Oh didn’t you know? Czarcasm is always right.
Says so right on his business card “I’m always right, ask me anything”.
I kid you Czarcasm 
Earlier today, someone posted a picture on a local Facebook page of a gas station, with one of those easel signs that says “GAS STATION” with an arrow pointing at it. Other people who lived in the neighborhood said it was probably because of the road construction, which was visible in the background, and the sign was by the only available entrance/exit.
Were you being… sarcastic?
< insert Roger Daltry scream here >
On the news last week I heard:
“The New York Knicks moved to a 2 - 0 lead in their series with the Philadelphia '76s after they won game 2 of the series last night.”
Now I reckon that if they just had said, “The New York Knicks moved to a 2 - 0 lead in their series with the Philadelphia '76s last night.” I could have answered all these questions anyway:, how many have the Knicks won? how many games in the series have been played? who won last night?
Meh.
Who were you again?
Well you don’t get to be TIME magazine person of the year without
being always right. (Unless you’re orange or something.)
I had a guy once told me that he doesn’t drive Corvettes because Corvettes don’t win races.
Um, you don’t drive Corvettes because you work the swing shift at a gas station.
Apparently the saying among lawyers is that every one of those weird and seemingly self-evident disclaimers and warnings on a product or in the instructions is written in blood. Meaning that some clown somewhere at some time did that very thing.
So when the can of oven cleaner says something like “Not for use on scrotum”, it’s there because some nimrod sprayed his balls with Easy-Off at some point and tried to sue the company that makes it.
I mean, who among us…?
I do some things, like adjusting my thermostat, without really thinking about it. Around April, I try not to turn the heat on at all, but if the day is colder than usual I might crank the thermostat up. I can see myself getting absorbed in reading something, getting cold, and turning the heat on like I’ve done a thousand times before.
I also know that about myself. If someone was working on the boiler I’d make sure the system was disabled so I wouldn’t absent-mindedly turn it on. I can also understand how some people might not take those precautions and cause an accident.
I know, I know guys.
Thus the:
It just makes me despair of the species. Especially when they were carting parts of the furnace (from the huge crawlspace) out to their truck through the house. Not something you easily forget in the course of a day.
Granted, I’m also a deep reader @Robot_Arm - so I get being so absorbed in a book that I forget I’m hungry, thirsty, or it’s gotten dark moments until it’s so bad you have to come up for air.
Yeah. I’ve heard that it can feel really good. Pleasantly warm, tingly, and a bit naughty,
is what I’ve heard… just heard some talk, just…around and stuff…
Wouldn’t professional HVAC people disconnect the power first thing? Or at least the thermostat?
That’s the same thing I’ve been thinking. How can there be any risk involved if the whole system has been disconnected from service in order for the work to done?
It would be disconnected, in such a case wouldn’t it?
You’d think so. A reasonably prudent person (my Dad used this phrase constantly) would.