Don't get distracted by the mystery

[lizblackdog]

whoa, this is bad. very groggy, almost hallucinating, and the cough has already got to the point where I have a sharp pain in my diaphragm when I breathe.

however, I don't think I'm hallucinating that my electric meter went from £15 to less than £10 while I was away. wtf?? I left the fridge and freezer on and although I had the 'puter running (it was doing stuff while I was gone) the monitor was switched off. My heating and hot water are included in the rent and not connected to the electric.

Seriously, those numbers might make sense if I'd left the fucking oven on or something, but I didn't, so I say again, wtf??? are those stories of electricity leaking out of the sockets true after all, or have the Feegles acquired a time machine that runs on mains electricity or something?

I feel too crappy to do anything about it, but the money I put in on Friday was supposed to last two weeks (which it usually DOES) and at this rate it's going to last one. it's a good job I feel too crap to eat anyway; that means I can cut the extra out of the grocery money...

who is it that has that Feeglespotting icon? I want to steal it. Can I?

Comments

[huntingdon.livejournal.com]

It's a nasty cold, although I've mainly got a killer sore throat.

Did you leave a mobile phone charger in or something? They keep taking energy even if the phone isn't on the end to draw it out.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

ah! that might have been it.

how the hell does that work? that sounds just as unlikely as the electric leaking out of the sockets, if you ask me.

however, the anecdotal evidence supports it, so I'll go switch it off...

[huntingdon.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but it seems you've just proven it true. :D

Electricity moves via a current, and you can have charged air particles, so I guess that if the power is on and 'open' because of the charger but not consumed by the phone, then you're charging the air in a tiny way.

That sounds utterly false. :D

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

wouldn't that mean it really DOES leak out of the sockets when you don't use it???

*runs round house switching all the mains switches off*

[huntingdon.livejournal.com]

I think you need to have a plug in it to open the channel. :D Otherwise - what are those plastic flaps for?