Comments on: Arizona, your teenagers are assholes

By: Temerity Jane » Blog Archive » Potential Cooking Disasters With TJ: Deeleeshoos Noodles!

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:23:36 +0000

[...] Dump your sauce right on top of that. I leave it on the heat on low, but I suppose you could also transfer it all to a bowl off the heat by this point. Phil and I are never on the same page about when dinner is ready, so I try to keep everything kind of warm for as long as possible. Especially if I’m making more than one thing. Because I have only ever been close to getting everything done at once ONE TIME and some DAMN KIDS RUINED IT. [...]

By: Temerity Jane » Blog Archive » Stand back, they’re going to flail.

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:12:17 +0000

[...] I reiterate – your teenagers are assholes. But synchronized assholes, which is actually a little bit cool. Except, they fight, so take away [...]

By: Em

Em — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:50:33 +0000

I’m in Florida, but I’ve often wondered if THIS would be the day that those punks flip our switch. So far, so good. They’d rather break into your car and steal an iPod, apparently.

By: Shawndra

Shawndra — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:04:40 +0000

WTF, TJ?!?! Don’t go giving these miscreants in California ideas. You know, some of them read the internet…

By: Pyewacket

Pyewacket — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:45:04 +0000

It’s why you have to keep a lock on it. Mine is almost always locked unless we’re fiddling with the power for some reason.

This is the time of year they love to flip those switches.

By a small keyed lock – lock the box and put the key someplace where you’ll know it will always be.

Welcome to the great AZ :-P

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:38:23 +0000

Wow. Those Arizona teens totally SUCK. I will let my niece and nephew know that if they EVER do that as teens (or pre-teens or post-teens), I will fly out there and wup their little heinies. Of course, after my sister-in-law gets done with them, there may not be much left for me to wup. (And when I get around to moving out there, I will make sure to put a lock on my box.)

By: Kusamoto

Kusamoto — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:32:53 +0000

It’s even more irritating when it’s 110 outside and you have the a/c going full blast. In the time it takes to power back up and reset those 60′s-era central air behemoths, your house feels like Dante’s 3rd circle of Hell. We had kids in our neighborhood growing up in Tucson that would do that crap. My grandfather, who used to play football (back in the days of leather helmets) because he enjoyed hurting people legally, only had to catch one of them at it once. That was amusifying.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:50:35 +0000

There I go again, giving advice where it isn’t asked for. :-p

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:50:05 +0000

Aside from pranksters, it’s much safer for a power box to be outside of a place of residence, especially one with pets / children. There is a lot of voltage running through those babies. (The power boxes, not the children :-D)

With that being said, are you allowed to install a lock of some sort on the outer metal box? Some places have regulations on that. If you do, I recommend a combo-lock, keeping track of keys these days is a pain.

By: john the diver

john the diver — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:00:11 +0000

Hate to break it to you. It is not just Arizona. Here in California our breaker boxes are outside too. (I wonder if this is a “It doesn’t snow so put those bad boys outside” kind of thing) When I was a kid it was a pretty common thing for all the boys in the neighborhood to kill the power at who ever had a sister with a sleep over party going on. That way we got to comfort all the scared girls.