I think everyone has a lifted neutral story.... But this ones good!

First few days in a service company learning the ropes with the owners brother.

Watching him work, custer service blah, blah, blah.

So he's working, and I'm just helping out. As hes in the panel, he starts giving the lecture about lost neutrals, "Always follow the wire you're disconnecting, so you don't pull the wrong neutral..." And he looks at me for an answer, "So you dont over-voltage something and blow it up." I say. He goes back to pulling the circuit out, then, "Oh %$*^! Go inside and see if anything burnt up! I can't believe it, I just pulled the wrong one!"

So I go inside, and find the home owner sitting in front of a smoking computer in a look of total horror.

Lucky he was the owners brother, but then again, he'll never live it down....


Mark Heller
"Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason