What winter means to me

[james_davis_nicoll]

It's surprisingly easy to give my left calf a first degree burn without noticing it.

Think I will move the space heater a titch.

Comments

[ann1962]

Titch! I haven't heard that word spoken since we moved from Canada.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Nicolled by a space heater? Is that a first?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

No, happens every year I use the radiant space heater.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Thus the textured semantic depth of the verb -- there definitely is a component of "happens more often than you think it probably should"... 8/

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

Um... You sound almost ... Well... This happens every year? Hmm...
Is it possible to be in a co-dependent relationship with a space heater?

[(Anonymous)]

I used to have a nice grid pattern on the back of one calf, from a space heater we were using at a cottage (in June, of course). Over the years it faded.

I did actually feel it, to such an extent that I haven't had such close personal contact with a space heater in 45 years.

William Hyde

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Given that James' pants weren't actually on fire, does this really count as a Nicoll Event?

FWIW, I haven't managed to burn myself on a heater yet, but I did manage to melt some sneakers by propping my feet up on the side of a pot belly stove that really didn't seem that hot.

[liabrown]

I once melted the zipper on my winter coat that way.

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

My father warmed .. umm... himself up by a woodstove, not realizing that the backside of his jeans had metal buttons on it. He subsequently sat down VERY BRIEFLY and never did that again.

[death4breakfast.livejournal.com]

According to the story I've heard, Levis jeans once had a metal reinforcing button at the stress point between the legs. That is, until one of the founders spent the evening sitting on the ground facing a camp fire, and then stood up. After that, that particular button went away.

[death4breakfast.livejournal.com]

Have you considered switching to a non-radiant heater? They make a variety of them these days, quite nice, and very reasonably priced.