I think our family has been pretty lucky as far as the accident front goes. Ajax has had a few bumps and bruises, but nothing major. I mean this from the kid that just last week made up a brand new game which involved leaping off the couch onto a mound of pillows. Dave thought it was hilarious; nearly gave me a heart attack.
On Sunday I disassembled our dishwasher which had broke down (we totally fixed it), and while we were working on it, Ajax was of course right there with you, basically inside the darn thing “helping.” At one point we had closed it up, thought it was off, and then reopened the door. We quickly discovered that it wasn’t off, but had been placed to the plate warming setting, thereby heating the coil in the bottom of the dishwasher.
Well, as soon as the door opened, Ajax dove inside, again to “help.” Dave immediately recognized that there was heat emitting from the dishwasher just a split second before Ajax grabbed the coil. We ran his hand under cold water and then placed aloe on the burn. It didn’t blister, but was definitely an angry red line right across his palm.
He kept holding up his hand saying, hot hot! Dave and I felt horrible, but Ajax seems to have moved on.
