Shit i don't like - electrical plug switch on, nothing in the socket.

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This drives my OCD bloody crazy.

If I see an electrical switch left on, with nothing plugged into the socket it is attached to, I will actually drop what I'm doing and cross the room to turn it off.

I've been laughed at and stared at blankly like I'm some mythical creature when I do it, but I don't care. It just bothers me to no end when I see it.

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  • dirtybirdy
    7 years ago

    What if the switch is upside down?

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  • charli.m
    7 years ago

    My grandmother would love you.

    American sockets have no switches. It's weird.

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
      7 years ago

      like a switch right on the plug or crost the room?

      my house has switches on the wall for the outlets and the double outlets is split, uppers on all the time lowers switched

      i knows cause thats how i wired em

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      • charli.m
        7 years ago

        On the plate.

        Everyone I've mentioned this to has thought it was weird, so I assumed that it just wasn't done there.

        Australian - https://goo.gl/images/661ome

        American (that I have seen) - https://goo.gl/images/lfZRH2

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        • Cuntsiclestick
          7 years ago

          Is it weird if I say your power outlets look a lot cooler than the ones I have?
          :)

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          • charli.m
            7 years ago

            Aww hehe :) yours look surprised.

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
          7 years ago

          whats the point?

          i can see the way i done it to has a floor lamp come on when yall walks into a room and flips a switch

          its not like turnin it off saves power

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          • charli.m
            7 years ago

            We're told that switching them off does save power. I have no idea if this is in fact true, but our government made a big thing of giving us free power switch auto turner offer things for TVs and computers.

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            • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
              7 years ago

              electronics with a power supply is a miniscule savins but alot if millionsa peoples does it

              a lamp or a vacuum cleaner not at all

              the american outlet yall pictured is upside down too but everyone has em this way because thats what everyones usedta

              theys designed to has the ground bar on top so if the plugs partway out and somethin falls on it it dont land on the hot prong

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        • dinz
          7 years ago

          You're not alone Mel. I was looking at the US sockets with bewilderment wondering why are there no switches on their outlets.

          Don't get me started on their toilets.... jeez...

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          • charli.m
            7 years ago

            They. Are. Fucking. HUGE.

            I don't remember anything about NZ toilets, so I assume they're like here, or I would have noticed.

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