Years ago, we just re-carpeted Cabin 5. Ah, that new carpet smell gave a fresh new look to the cabin.
A young couple rented the cabin and they were professional people. She was an electrical engineer and he owned his own business.
Four days into the week, she stopped in an said that she burned the carpet (it was BRAND new) and wanted me to come in to look. Well, at least she let me know. A little later, I went over to the cabin and there was a grill pattern melted cleanly and distinctively into the new rug. In fact, there were two perfect grid marks that overlapped in a criss-cross pattern. No black marks, no discolorations, just these grid patterns.
I scratched my head, squinted and asked, "Now...how...what happened?"
She said that she was preheating the gas oven to 400 degrees and when she went to put the food in, she thought that the rack was too high. So she set down the casserole dish on the counter and grabbed the rack - with her bare hands - and then proceeded to fling it across the room. It landed on the rug and melted in one grid pattern.
"Oh," I said. "But why are there two grid patterns in the rug?"
"Well, the night before last, I was baking fish and the oven had to be preheated to 350 degrees...and the rack was too low."
She was a brilliant electrical engineer AND a blond.
