I'm still mildly seething, sort of like a dragon with smoke coming out my nostrils, but no flames. In my time being in the world of women, as one, I have never encountered a woman who acted like a man, aside from simply openly hostile, man hater, lesbian women, and even their presentation was, well lacking.
So on the 4th of July, I get this call around midnight, from a friend who said her power was off. Well, to me it is normal life, having done that sort of thing most of my working career. Well, I got to her house, and after looking for signs of fire, bad smells and all that, decided that either her AC was acting up or that one of the substations had produced a brown out and caused a perfect storm, resulting in a 200 Amp breaker tripping.
In a house, the tripping of that breaker under normal circumstances is not something to be ignored, and after checking things, decided that the tripping of another 220 Volt breaker in the panel proper, probably had something to do with it. So, at least the problem was localised. Well, I'm not going to bore you with more details save to say, I decided to check on price and availability on a new main breaker the next day. And since her Main Breaker felt "squishy" when I reset it, I wanted to check out the action of new breakers.
I was not optomistic, but did go over to the local Homeowner Hell store, and as I was looking at panels, this woman came strolling up to me, and began to look at me like I was some bimbo that got lost on the way to look at Kitchen Cabinets. Well, even when doing electrical work, I do not deign to wear those horrid men's clothes.
I was simply doing research and with her interest, I began to outline the problem and she quickly told me that she was retired from Lockeed-Martin and was an aircraft wiring person, and had rewired 5 of her own houses.
I'm sorry, but after having worked as an Electrician for 32 years, I can tell you that what she said don't mean shit to me, not that I said so. What I was actually looking for was the opinion of a peer about how breakers should sound and feel when manually actuated.
Somehow she revised her opinion of me and, assumed that I actually got lost on the way to Macy's. Well, I won't go into all the gory details but it was soon apparent that she wanted a pissing contest. I've simply not run into this with women. Did I not have my submissivity adequately concealed? Did she actually see the marks on my neck and wrists from the restraints? Did she see the welts on my thighs from the whip? The fact that there are none of said markings on me is yet another revelation that no man worth his salt wants me. :(
Finally, I could feel my anger kindling but had the presence of mind to tell her that we were not going to have this conversation any longer. Other wise, I would likely snap her skinny neck.
This has been a genuine shock to me. I wonder if she has concealed balls?
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Competitive woman?
It's possible that this woman HAD to learn to be aggressive and competitive in her job to be taken seriously by the men there. AND she might have seen signs of your birth gender and felt that same need to show her superiority?
with love,
HER
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
It was wasted on me.
I've seen enough.
Hmm...
Pity about the arrogance, but this world really does need more masculine behaviour in it's women (whether trans or not), and vice versa.
"Be the change you want to see", said Ghandi. Following that logic, I don't try to rein in the masculine behaviour when passing as a female.
Well, is it possible that she was carrying a concealed brain?
Doesn't sound like she was using hers...
Ask your electrician to come over, then stand there the next day and tell her wgy you didn't need her. Is it possible a) That she misunderstood, or b) She's just stupid?
Wren
I think it was a different woman
from Gwen's friend/client.
It's still unusual for women to rewire their own houses, even if they do wiring in aircraft. Was she another TS? I couldn't do it now even if I had the skills, not strong enough to channel out bits of wall and stuff.
I fixed a bike rack to the garage wall and it took me all morning to drill six holes and fix the screws. Then I knocked in a few more nails to hold up the membrane under my garage roof, after which I had to go and sit down my back was hurting so much. It so happened the TdF was on so I rested for a couple of hours before cutting the grass. Age/injury and oestrogens have taken most of my muscles and wrecked my joints.
Angharad
Estrogen strength loss.
OH, I so much know how you feel. In the before time, my biggest problem is that my joints and connective tissue could not stand up to the stress that my muscles could put them through. For being only 5'7" and 145 lbs, people said I was a maniac in some of the things I would get up to, and I took sometimes 3200 mg of Motrin to sustain it.
The most unpleasant time of my day was sitting around at lunch and listening to the "real" males compare their dicks with one another. The whole, "first liar never has a chance thing". Even though I was reticent to join in this sophomoric behavior, once in a while one of them would challenge me on some inane issue and mostly I simply refused to rise to the challenge.
It seems a construction guy's phallic symbol is his truck. Mine was bought for me, by my X, who said when we got in it to drive away, "now perhaps this will make you more masculine". It was a '93 Dodge Cummins 4x4 which had been built up to take a snow plow for a local ski establishment called "Mt Hood Meadows", but because the snow was poor that year, did not take it.
So, the men on the site quickly seized upon my supposed affront to their masculinity by telling me that their lame assed Fords were better than my tinny Dodge. Of course at the height of their testosterone intoxication, they did admit that the Cummins engine was totally bril.
One of them came unhinged when I refused to engage in their petty games and said that the person who made the payments should drive what they wished. At no time did I reveal what my then wife had said to me.
Alas, her efforts to improve me were for naught, and now I am in my present state and happier for it.
I tried to do a Kitchen remodel the other day, and an afternoon's work took two days. Afterward, I had a serious, three week long attack of, "I hurt so much I can not move". My days of doing Electrical work are far gone. I simply don't have the beef for it any longer, and for some inexplicable reason, the idea that a main breaker could blow up in my face makes me feel incontinent. It makes me wonder how, in the old days, I managed to keep my emotions in check when a panel door would blow across the room?
Electrical wire
I had to put a new main circiut breaker box in my house and rewire the main cable coming from the meter, of course the meter was on the other side of the house so we had to run the big gauge wire about 200 feet thru the attic let me tell you it took 3 of us grow men to pull the wire - 1 at the box pulling the old wire and rope then the new wire thru the pipe all this took thr better part of 1 day so if SHE rewired 5 house good for her or maybe SHE had a dream.
Unseemly behaviour
All I know is the woman was testing my seemlyness to the limit, so I withdrew before it became unseemly.
200ft eh? Did you allow for voltage drop? :)
Gwendolyn
Well, since he was talking
Well, since he was talking about 'big cable', the voltage drop would be negligible - less than 1% for a 200 amp, 240 volt (split phase) A/C service, using a 2/0 or 1/0 cable. (3/0 or 4/0 for aluminium, which isn't really common for residential use anymore)
What REALLY drops voltage over short runs is Direct Current. (high voltage DC has different issues) That's why, if Edison had had his way over Tesla, we'd have a power plant every three miles :)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I was actually being facetious.
As for if the voltage drop is negligible? Yeah ok, maybe. I'm just here playing around, having fun. Those who want to take this seriously, that's in the other room. :)
Dat's OK. It's called
Dat's OK. It's called edumacatscion, or sumtin' laik dat.
Summon'll faind it usefull.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Breakers be tripping!
Here's something I've come acrossed here at my place.
The issue was 3-fold. One: The box had an un-balanced load. (It didn't help our having 3 AC's stuffed into windows!) Two: The time (Open way-back machine!) when this house was built in the mid sixti-ish something or other, they used a what-you-call-it to fuse the main supply line to the house (That loop bit after the anchor) with the stub-line that goes down the house and into the box that the meter sits in. Them dang connection points, both at the house, and of the line in the air across the street... gar-bad-geee--OH! They had to be cut-off, and new bolt-togther jobbers put in place. We were having both current issues, amperage issues, and balance issues. As to the breaker... I'll not do the chest beating... but have enough know-how to say... is 2 different types. One, is ALWAYS mush-like on reset, but should be hard to do manual-trip like one expects of a breaker... if it's sound. The other, it's called a "Heater-type" breaker, and that one will only be mush right after tripping, until it cools off a bit. It doesn't like being reset right following a over-heat condition. But fine after a bit. Now... having said this, I will say that these rules have a break-point, and only apply to post-1970 hardwear. I had original stuff in my house... didn't follow such rules, and a church-built place up in NH I re-built... was a real... Huuuuummm... friggit, rip it out and just went and put new, I've had my fill of resets! Some were mush, and yet didn't trip as much as some that seemed normal!?!
My advice...? Put new in, and unless you like a challenge? Yank the meter first! :-) One other thing to check... ground wire to your ground rod outside, and its connections! Floating grounds have been known to make breakers act really STRANGE! depending on what type they are... and new GFI's come with a separate lead off them just to tag-onto your grounding lead. Some older places have the ground-line, and the common line for the entire house hooked to same termination strip, this is not a good thing to do with new hi-tech stuff in the home, and a single semi-malf appliance can frag your electronics!
It be gud talkin ta me peers.
Now, this is the sort of discussion I was trying to get out of "herself" over at Homeowner Hell. It's been close to 10 years since I worked and just needed a bit of a refresher.
Well, the Breaker is one of those old Westinghouse ones with the off set primary terminals. The new one snaps just like I thought it otter. And the used breaker guy showed me that all the good uns were snappy, but the bad ones were squishy in that frame.
I am just jolly well pleased that the breaker I am working on is not one of those old GE ones that are about the size of a dishwasher, and used to scare the bejesus out of me. I actually walked into the switch room one time and found one of those rolled out and smoking like a barbi. A lady like me hadn't ought to have to wear depends to work, ya know?
Thanks for the reminder to check the ground wire outside. Hadn't even thought about it.
Gwendolyn
Like I mentioned...
Call and have your elect co. come pop a test meter into you meter box....
Them bad connections will cause a low-volt sitch! That makes every danged thing in your home draw more amps than it should, and it does a whack-job on the main breaker. One must now deal with the "WHY" the main one up and died on you like that.