me_irl

I remember when I was in my early 20s in my first apartment, they were doing work on the gas lines and a maintenance person had to come in and reset the pilot light on the water heater and lightly chastised me for having a bunch of stuff stored to either side of it in its little closet due to safety concerns. I was too embarrassed to admit it but I had concluded that was just some metal junk someone had left taking up space in my closet, no idea it was the thing making my hot water work. I had even discussed this with my girlfriend at the time, who also came to the same conclusion about it, just some large metal junk inexplicably taking up most of the space of a small apartment closet.