How the **** is this my fault?

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Situation: Oftentimes, my mom seems to be blaming me for the electricity bill going up. Today, I saw that my brother had left the TV on, whilst he was downstairs--not only that, but the light in the dining room was on as well.

My action: I shut the TV off, and the light in the dining room off, leaving the light in the basement, where my brother presumably was, on.

Result: My brother comes up from the basement, turns the TV back on, and turns the light on in the dining room. Apparently, he had been moving stuff up. He then proceeds to give me an attitude like "It's all YOUR fault," and tells me "I was watching the TV."

So somehow, it is MY fault that *I* shut the stuff off when in reality he was--in the situation I had been introduced to at the time--wasting electricity in the process. I think that this is a case of me not knowing/misinterpreting what I had seen as well as him being a bit wasteful in the process. But yet, how is it ONLY my fault that I had done something so small that it has to cause him to have an attitude with me. I don't understand :'(

I generally wouldn't be bothered by this. People bi**h at me all the time; I don't care. Maybe it's different for other aspies.

As you said it, it is something small. I recommend you to go on with your life. If your brother for some reason can't forget this small event. That's surely not your fault.

I don't know whose fault it is about the power bill, but he didn't have to get ugly when you turned something off when thee was nobody in the room. Tell him "you move, you lose" . Thats my kids mantra. You walk out of the room without letting somebody else know and your seat and the tv, the stereo, the light etc can be taken away. Sucks but as the Mom I get to walk in and say MOVE.

Now for your power bill. The power company can give you information about how much you have been using. Ask them for a reccomendation. With the whole going green thing, a lot of them are doing things like that.

There is a way to make the meter turn slower [edited for content by sinsboldly]. You have to take it off before the meter reader comes though. My husbands an electrician. I can't say it here.

PaganMom

Had this happen to me about 20 years ago, I had many electronics projects and experiments. Long story short, I moved out a few years later, the bill still remained high, maybe only dropping a dollar or two a month. A year after that, my parents stopped using and got rid of an old refrigerator in the basement. The electricity bill then dropped by over a third. So it may be a bad appliance or something else, not you, causing it.

High power bills are how they find grow houses sometimes. Really.

PaganMom