On Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 12:23:48 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...
ROFL

That's what I immediately thought too. If I didn't already have GFCI
in the wet locations, garage and outdoors, I would add it. Cheap, easy
and could be a lifesaver. Yet the leading lib that's all for all kinds
of regulation of everything, doesn't care in his own house.





Don't they make drop cords that have a GFCI in them ,or boxes that you
can buy to do the same thing ?

Yes, but people who don't care about safety and/or are cheap aren't
likely to use them either. And you have to only use that one. If
some repair guy, (like the AC repair guy that the code is worried about)
shows up and just plugs a regular cord in, they are not protected.
Or if you have one GFCI cord and need more at Xmas, same thing, etc.
And none of that protects against dropping a hair dryer into the tub.
the GFCI cords are certainly better than nothing. And any repair
guys should have them, since they don't know what they are dealing
with at each house.