Do I Smell Smoke?

I admit I've smoked a few things here and there.

One of my stupid mistakes involved a cold day in a house under construction and a very rough crawl space. Around here (at that time) new construction crawl spaces were not very well regulated. This one was a mix of hilly, accessible to very poor accessible areas, clay, rock, sand, junk, scrap wood cuttings, etc. Not a fun place. I was 'down there' helping the guys finish up an LPG horizontal, forced air furnace with A/C. My job was USUALLY service, repair, "start ups" and the install end of refrigeration/ AC/ heat pumps. So I was trying to get "junk" out of the way and room to work, and the the owner/ general contractor stuck his head down. "How ya doin" etc "do ya need" etc, and then he says, can you slide that baseboard over, I'll get that out of here.

There was a LONG pair of baseboard heaters, 8' he had jerry rigged for heat. But one was had a length of "Romex" and it was still attached at one end.

"Just cut it"

"You sure it is dead? I asked

"Absolutely"

So stupid me cut it with my dykes. You are talking about no 10 Romex, 2 wire + bare ground, so a pair of hot 120V legs and a ground wire, for 240V. "KER F**KING BLAMBHO!!"

"Oh, sorry" he says

He did not want to pay for my dykes, which were Channel Lock but he "paid" for them anyway!!!!