Ok, I have to agree, thermomiters are enough to drive you insane. The mercury ones are condisered leathal. (I know, right, we have been sticking these things into our mouths, nevermind, up where the sun don't shine) And the didgital ones are enough to drive you insane. Mine will:
come on: BEEP
Flash: BLINK, BLINK
Turn to a steady: L
Then you stick it wherever you have a mind to.
After about 9 seconds it Beeps: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP.
And you take it out.
It reads: 97.3 (or something below 100)
OY. You try it all again this time you leave it in for another 10 seconds after the beep. You get something 2+ degrees higher than if you had just taken it out when it beeped.
I don't trust thermomiters. I think they are out to get us. They don't want us to know we have a fever.