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Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the smartes

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charles(mo)

03-06-2007 04:43:24




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Last night when I came home from work, my wife was making home made pizza. When she thought it was time to pull the pizza out of the oven, she discovered that the oven was just barely warm. So I told her that she could take the pizza across the road to my brother's house to bake it there.

When she got back, we ate the pizza and talked about how to work our schedules to be here for the repair man.(I don't work on appliances still under warrenty). Later in the evening, I started to make me a cup of tea and found that the cook top wasen't working either.

Got up this morning and thought that maybe I should check the breaker to make sure that 220 was coming to the stove and not just 110. So I thought I would pull the plug and check it there first. Found the problem right there. Plug was almost out of the recepticle. Pushed it in and everything works.

Now for the good part. I told my wife that I fixed the stove and she asked me what was wrong with it. I told her that I had to recalibrate the oven relay to the cook top transfer switch. No big deal, sometimes those things happen.

Well she thinks I am the greatest guy in the world. I did secure the plug so it won't come out again. And I will probably tell the wife what I really did to fix it, but right now I have to go to work.

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CLTX

03-10-2007 21:23:25




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
Always start with the simple things. Is it plugged in? Is the circuit braker tripped. We all know that but..... lol. I had a mechanic come down to the boat to push the reset button on a gen set.. Talk about feeling stupid.

Having the wife feel you are the smartest person in the world works great until she finds out you have pulled one of the above.....lol.



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JML755

03-06-2007 16:37:52




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
Probably everyone who reads this board has been asked to fix something for someone and it turns out to be something real simple and obvious. Most people won't take the time to mess with it if there's someone around who will. In my house & neighborhood, that someone is me. The classic ones are where my daughters call up from college with "my computer is acting funny. what's wrong?". I'd like to believe that they think I'm really that smart, but the truth is that it's just easier to get someone else to scratch their heads and try and think the problem through.

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frankiee

03-06-2007 16:37:03




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
I do think that wives think that thier men are smart and can come through when needed in this ever changing world; I think they are right



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Jim K

03-06-2007 11:58:06




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
Would that have been the lefthanded muffler bearing wrench or the unobtanium metric flathead screwdriver that you used to do that recalibratin.
Now she's going to think you can fix anything.
Jim K



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Ludwig

03-06-2007 08:04:51




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
My wife's aunt called my father-in-law a couple weeks ago because the mouse on her computer wouldn't work. F-I-L calls my wife who asks me to go take a look at it. Ain't modern communication methods the greatest?
So she's got a wireless mouse alot like the wireless trackball I've got. She's put new batteries in it and it still doesn't work. I flip it over and push the reset button, then find the base and push that reset button, now everything works.
Total time to get the message to me that it was broken - 2 days
Total repair time - 11 seconds.

I refuse to tell anybody in the family what I actually did. F-I-L is up to $50 he's willing to pay to find out. I'm sticking to "I just laid my hands on it"

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Steve Crum

03-06-2007 07:42:32




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
Enjoy it while you can! In May it will be 25 years for us. I'm about out of believeable cock and bull lines and if it's broke she expects it to be fixed, RIGHT NOW!



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jhill52

03-06-2007 06:59:10




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
Enjouy it while you can. It won't last.



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Joe in MN

03-06-2007 05:39:40




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
Women are made to be fooled > Look at what happened to Eve and Satan ... that was the start of it all ..... ...



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Sean Feeney 2

03-06-2007 05:05:00




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to charles(mo), 03-06-2007 04:43:24  
"I had to recalibrate the oven relay to the cook top transfer switch" She knows your full of Sh*t, but she loves you to much to call you on it.



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Randall Kollmeyer

03-06-2007 05:27:32




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 Re: Electric range fixed. Wife thinks I am the sma in reply to Sean Feeney 2, 03-06-2007 05:05:00  
Charles, Mo..... .....you better hope you get "rewarded" BEFORE you tell her the truth! You got lucky with the stove..... ....may not happen with the little woman of the house!



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