Unexplained

[poliphilo]

The boiler broke down Saturday night- so we were back to electric fires and hot water bottles on Sunday. It was no hardship. I wonder how much we'd save if we turned the central heating off full-time.

The engineer arrived Monday morning.  "Do you use a lot of olive oil?" he asked. I boggled a bit- and he said that a plug socket inside the boiler was all gunked up with something that looked like olive oil- and this was causing fuses to blow. There was so much of it- this oily stuff- that it had collected in pools inside the casing. Where the hell had it come from? The boiler is high up on the wall so it isn't a spill- and if it had condensed out of the air from all the frying we do there'd surely be oil all over the kitchen- and there isn't.   The engineer couldn't come up with an explanation and neither can I. Weird!

Comments

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

A Greek poltergeist?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Heh-heh-heh. Could be!

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I find that oil residue collects in the weirdest of places even though it's not apparent. Still, that is just weird.
I think a Spanish poltergeist is more likely as we use even more olive oil than the Greeks!
:)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Alternatively it might just be a middle-class English poltergeist. I'll bet the English middle classes get through as much olive oil these days as any of the Mediterranean nations.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Well that's just darned strange!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If there's a simple, rational explanation I can't think what it is.

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

Your fuse box must be exuding ectoplasm.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It has no business doing so. :)

[sovay]

Where the hell had it come from?

Poltergeist? That likes cooking?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ha!

It's a plausible as anything I can think of.