trader-of-some-jacks wrote:
We have a houseguest this Christmas, unfortunately.

This person insists on turning the dials on our old (late 70s) GE
electric range the wrong way to set the temperature. In other words,
instead of going from off to low to medium to medium high to high,
just turn the knob from off straight to high, and from high back to
off.

You're lucky. My houseguest insisted on reversing the toilet tissue.

I removed the spindle.