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In the depth of pandemic lockdown, after my roommate moved out to return closer to family, I was in my house alone for a month straight. One day I hear the tea kettle whistling on the stove.

It was the middle of summer, I hadn’t made tea in weeks. Maybe I bumped the stove control? But there shouldn’t have been any water in the kettle. And I hadn’t been in my kitchen for over an hour and it wouldn’t have taken that long for the water to boil had I put it on and just forgotten about it somehow. I keep my doors locked.

Idk, the only thing I can think of is the isolation really got to me that day, I put the kettle on and completely forgot I had done it five minutes later.

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8 points

Was there any water actually in it or did you not check?

Maybe tinnitus or tv?

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It was about half full of water and it was boiling.

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So if there was nobody else there you must have done that and just blepped or been on autopilot. It happens lol

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What kind of stove? Could you have bumped the knob and the kettle had water leftover from last time?

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12 points

Carbon monoxide? really that seems concerning

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1 point

It was zak bagans.

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