to worry about my DH?

[freddiefrog]

He's just been making some toast and I realised that he's the pain in the arse person who keeps turning the toaster knob to number 5 so I end up with burnt toast

I questioned why, when he doesn't like incinerated toast, he keeps turning the knob up, then popping the toast up every 30 seconds

Apparently, it's because he thinks that turning the knob up makes the toaster work faster.

He was astounded that the knob just controls how long the bread stays in the toaster, not how hot it is

He's 38, has a job where he has to make important decisions, manages to breathe in and out without assistance and dresses himself each day and yet, this has never occurred to him before

I do the same as your DH

I am a nob

I do that too and thought the same

Haha! I like my toast anaemic ("warmed up bread" my brother calls it) and I found out recently my partner turns the toaster to 5 when he makes toast and turns it back down to 1 after so its always on the right setting for me :)

Have just had exactly same thing happen with last slice of bread to make dd soldiers and a swimming pool. Feckin idiot. Love him really but low on common sense.

Leave the bastard

That is seriously annoying.

My DH is super smart (think Sheldon Cooper) but doesn't possess a scrap of common sense.

You can't have it both ways

I know the feeling well.

I came home at lunch time to find a broken casserole dish, various vegetables and tomatoes plastered all around the tiles, over the toaster, up the walls, over the floor!

DP had decided that what distinguishes casserole from stew isn't where you cook it but whether its cooked in a ceramic casserole dish or a pan! So my very lovely blue casserole pot is now in the bin, as is dinner. This is a man who can talk about black holes and string theory but can't boil an egg without instructions.

That's how it works meg. You can only have one or the other I think! My Dad is super clever but literally cannot function as a nornal human being he has so little common sense.

Another one in the nob queue

I think I thought it worked a bit like an oven. DH does most of the cooking in our house (mostly from necessity!)

Seriously more than one person in the world thought that it was heat setting not timer? How peculiar. Although my dad used mine the other day and questioned why it was on 5 and had burnt his toast, to which I replied that I don't actually use the timer and just keep popping up the bread every few seconds as I like mine anaemic and don't trust it

.

I love him dearly, but honestly, I do wonder about him sometimes

Stuntgirl - at least he turns it back down afterwards. Bonus brownie points!

I am a nob too then cause I didn't know. You learn something new every day on here!

I'm even more embarrassed as I didn't know that until my THIRTEEN year daughter told me

This is me. I'm book smart but kind of hopeless at life sometimes.

For example, I'm about to finish my phd, but I can't really tell the difference between a sheep and a goat

Ooh so it doesn't control the heat then

Dreaming, I just recently learned that a bull is a male cow, I thought they were a totally different animal...

loopy

I didn't know until a few years ago that there was more than one kind of duck. Hopeless!

Is there? See, now I didn't know that either

Oh thank god I'm not the only one!

Presumably the toaster saboteurs are the same people who think a central heating thermostat is like a volume control and needs to be turned up/down depending on the weather.

If it was a heat setting, not a timer, the second lot of toast you do wouldn't get done quicker (which it invariably does) because it wouldn't be hotter after being used once already...

Iyswim.

Probably not because I didn't write that clearly.

i think thats quite sweet, but i am amazed at how many people didnt know, bit like my friend, no matter how much i tried, i couldnt convince her that Joan of Arc was NOT Noahs wife!

DH does that to but he does like burnt toast. I have to check for when dd1 uses it.

My main bug bear about toasters is why are they not made the same size a slice of bread i get fed up of having to turn the bread round so it all toasted and not having an inch of untoasted bread.

My oldest son 23 filled the kettle with milk to make a hot chocolate!!!!!

He had a degree.