I got home early enough for dinner, for once. It was 8:30 and I decided to make spaghetti.
I put on a pot of water to boil and figured it had been awhile since I changed the bulb in the range hood above the stove, so the minute I flicked on the switch, the bulb went out. Well, you know how there is a white plastic guard over the light bulb there on most of those? I knew it was there but I could always reach the bulb underneath. All the other times, I never moved the guard and just changed the bulb that way.
Well, tonight I saw that there was a small place where the guard could be disconnected and hang from a little hinge, while you change a bulb. I grabbed the guard and pulled it from the slot and let the guard drop so that I could change the bulb. It was cool, ’cause I always thought that the way I always used to do it was kinda hard.
When I was done, I snapped the guard back into place and went about my business.
It wasn’t long before I saw them. I thought the stuff floating on the top of the water in the pot was just because perhaps I hadn’t washed it out thoroughly. Nope. What I was looking at was the tiny old, dried up carcasses of a few small dead flies and gnats floating at the top of my almost-boiling water in my beloved clean pot! I guess they had been lying in that damned lightbulb guard which I had never flipped back before,
ISH!
Ohmygosh, I never scrubbed a pot as hard or for as long!