That stupid nagging feeling

The article below (from the Onion) cracks me up because it totally reminds me of Rose.

Scientist Has Nagging Feeling He Left Particle Accelerator On

March 31, 2004 Issue 40•13

CHICAGO—University of Chicago particle physicist Matthew Sharp drove halfway home before he was struck with the fear that he'd left the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System running Tuesday night. "I think I powered it down after smashing those 9-GeV electrons into 3.1-GeV positrons, but I don't specifically remember flipping the switch," Sharp said. "Not only does a nine million volt electrostatic tandem Van de Graaff injector accelerator cost a lot to run; it's also a pretty serious fire hazard." Sharp almost turned his car around, but didn't, because the past three times he's gone back to check on the accelerator, he's found it off.

You see, Rose would get home from the lab, usually LATE, and proceed to freak out wondering if she left something 'on' (like a burner and that of course she was going to wind up burning the lab down).

She didn't have a car so if she went back to the university to check (i.e. the burner), it would get REALLY LATE and end up costing her quite a bit for the cab. If she didn't go she'd worry about it all night and not sleep a wink. Of course she wouldn't ask me to drive her... and I'd sit there listening to her have her little spaz out, waiting for her to just ask.

Did I say it was already late?

Eventually I'd begrudgingly offer to drive her... just to shut her up and relieve my guilty sense of obligation. I think most of the time she had indeed shut off whatever it was. Yep. And I would refrain from choking her...