Now, I’m allowing for the idea that he could be onto something, but Tommy had me baffled earlier tonight. I talked to him at approximately 9:30 PM tonight, and he mentioned how he had a load of dishes ready to run in the dishwasher, but he wanted to run them at 1:00 in the morning. I, being an idiot, asked why.
“So I can brargle flossum guhr ready bin la morning.” (So he can have them be ready in the morning)
“Then why don’t you just run them now?”
“pringle dink ween mess hand bridge…”
As far as I can tell, the answer had something to do with “using less amperage” at that time of night. Being around him and knowing how he thinks, I can only assume that he believes that the dishwasher running at that time, won’t be influenced by other appliances running at the same time, and will work a lot more efficiently. I…just don’t know what to say. I’m not an electrical engineer, so I could be wrong, but this seems a little odd to me.
For some reason, I’m reminded of this scene from Blazing Saddles:
March 3, 2009 at 8:27 pm |
Doesn’t make any sense to me, but I know very little about electric currents.
March 4, 2009 at 12:33 pm |
i have heard that energy costs less at off-peak hours; however, i can’t find the rates to back that up. certainly off-peak starts before 1:00am…