NOW do you see what I mean?
See, Joe implied my excuse of the angle was lame. But I look at these controls and I see the dot closest to me as the burner closest to me. I see it automatically without a thought.
Perhaps that part of my brain just never developed but I always have to look at the right side of the stove to refer to the burner I use most and then I have to look at this side to make sure I turn on the right burner.
And to make matters worse, we've had this stove for about EIGHT YEARS.
Making ham and beans today.
Yep, turned on the back burner by mistake AGAIN.
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Now Jeff. First, if I stick labels on the front of my stove I'm going to look completely stupid, not to mention ruining the look of the stove.
Second, I don't store my Tupperware containers on the stove. I set my flour on the stove when I was going to use it, thinking the back burner was on. Didn't take me too long to realize I had a melting Tupperware flour container.
But I did get a big laugh out the suggestions about my genetically inferior brain's concept of these stupid circles on my stove.
I still maintain these goofy circles were designed by men.
Just put black electrical tape over the labels...it will blend in...and then you can just put it in your own mind to associate which knob with which burner. Try it for a week...see if it helps.
Mrs. W: You're killing me here. First I thought you'd back me up with the circles being confusing so they were designed by man but you guess the correct burner location, so you helped to blow my theory.
And now you want me to stick tape on my stove dials?
Okay, Okay. I give. I'll concede. This is one of those dumb blonde things I'll just have to admit to.
And the next stove I buy I'll make sure it has dials for dummies.
To make myself feel better, I think I'll go rewire my TV, cable, receiver and surround sound again because I can at least figure that stuff out, just not these stupid dials.
No!!!! I'm not here to create confusion. And honestly, the stove at my m-i-l's house does the same thing to me! (And truthfully, seeing both of them together does create a moment of confusion...just one doesn't. So, I'm with you there!)
Sorry, I look at the image and associate the circles and dots with the burners as they are positioned on the stovetop, not as the burners relate to me. I must think like the engineers and designers.
In a similar fashion I was amazed to learn some people cannot look a t a blueprint and see a 3D image in their mind.
left brain/right brain maybe?
More likely, I am just right. hahaha
Joe 1+.
If it helps, get some whiteout, and tastefully doctor the graphics to suit your disability.
All I can say is these last two posts have lit a fire in me (ha, I didn't even intend to create that pun).
Now I'm on a quest to find another equally inane subject in which to debate my position of something totally irrelevant.
Look at it this way, it keeps me from screaming about politics. And it's been quite entertaining for me. I love a good logical debate even when I'm wrong.
I'll see if I can find something else that I'm sure must have been designed by a man because.....
Invariably, there will always be a cold pan of something on the burner I thought I turned on, and a melting plastic spatula/bread bag/tupperware on the one that is heating.
WORSE are the handles that are placed at the back of the stove....right over the top of the steaming pots. Now THAT was invented by a man.
yes, mine are at the back of the stove. I have a steam burn on the ball of my thumb right now to attest to the stupidity of the knob placement on my stove.
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