Is there, like, some law of nature that says that every household has to have one person who goes around turning off the lights???

My friend admits to being the culprit at her house. Her husband gripes because "We're livin' in a cave" while she chirps "Pennies down the drain!"

Now, I don't mean when you're done in a room and you wander off, forgetting to turn off the light.

I'm talking when I go down cellar to get a can of peas, and when I get back in the kitchen all the lights are off. Then what do you do? Turn 'em back on, and make it about dueling light switches? "Oh yeah? Well, I wanted them ON!" Leave them off and get supper ready by squint?

If it's possible to (vaguely) make out the outlines of furniture as I grope my way through the house, then we don't "need" the lights on, and we're saving money.

How much money are we going to save when I trip over the pile in the carpet or walk in to a wall and break my nose?

My brother is like that. I'd go visit him, and in about 600 square feet of space, there would be a pin-up lamp with a forty-watt bulb. I wanted to slap a ten dollar bill in his hand and screw in a 100-watter.

It isn't that I can't see in the half-dark, it's that I'm claustrophobic when it's semi-dark all around me. I can't describe it, but it makes me feel trapped or something.

So am I right? Does every house have one? Man, he can't even bring himself to kiss me good-bye in the morning until he has all the "unnecessary" lights turned out first. AAAAAAAARGH!