On Sun, 29 May 2011 12:30:44 -0700, "DGDevin"
wrote:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DTL&type=autos

However *really* keeping a bottle of vodka in the garage probably isn't a
good sign.

In the garage so certain members of the household won't find it?

My father had to make a (rough hewn) padlockable cabinet in the
basement for the liquor because the maid would drink it otherwise.

OTOH a later maid, a J's Witness, quit because there was liquor in
some cake or other that my mother made, and that she found out when
she ate some of the cake. My mother insisted she couldn't have
actually consumed any alcohol because all of it evaporates during
baking, and she must have seen the cake being made (by my mother). But
the maid quit anyhow. My mother insists the maid saw her put liquor
in the cake and ate it anyhow. I don't know what kind of liquor it
was.

My father died when I was 8, and we couldn't afford a maid or anything
more than the minimum after that.


I don't understand the link. Why not clean the plug mechanically,
scraping it with a pen knife or a key or metal brush or any piece of
metal? I used to use a cheap knife on the lawn mower. I don't know
if liquor dissolves carbon deposits or not.