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Electric Blanket Out of Control

jemdandy
10 years ago

The topic about electric blankets brought to mind a funny event that happened to my in-laws. They lived where the winter nights were frigid and used an electric blanket to start the night. Mother-in-law and father-in-law preferred different temperatures, so they had a blanket with dual controls, one for each blanket half. FIL rigged a timer to cut the power to the blanket about 2 hours after they retired to bed. With this arrangement, they could let the house cool 5 to 10 degrees at night and yet be cozy in bed.

And then one night, all was not well. MIL was geting too hot so she'd trun down her control and a minute later FIL was advanceing his control. This went on for 2 hours until the overheated partner said enough, threw off the covers. got up and turned on the light. They were near the point of coming to blows and both were cursing the electric blanket. Now fully awake in the lighted room, they spied the problem. The controls had been switched! The left side control was on the right headboard and vice versa.

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