Out of Date

Yesterday I posted in rant form about my room-mate and the annoying fan. And how I might have removed the blades of said fan. As I type this, I'm on night-shift (again) so the whole story is coming from my other roomie. Thing 1 is the roomie who likes the annoying fan, Thing 2 is the other roomie.

Things 1 and 2 went out tonight for a pizza or nachos with some other people, when they get back, Thing 1 goes into the bedroom and puts the fan on. Thing 2 comes in and sees the fan is on, but the blades are still missing, so the whole thing is making a noise (and I quote) 'like nothing has been removed but someone has shoved a damn branch in there' so I took that to mean a sort of clunking, whirring noise. Basically more annoying than previously. Thing 2 goes to the kitchen incredulous to call me and tell me. I tell her to go back to the bedroom and ask Thing 1 what's wrong with the fan, so she does then calls me back. Apparently Thing 1 said something along the lines of: “I don't know, I think it's broken, did you break it? It's making a funny noise. * puts her hand next to it * And it's not making any wind.” Then she goes back to reading AND LEAVES THE FAN WHIRRING AWAY! It appears that Thing 1 either hasn't noticed we have removed the blades, has noticed but just likes the noise the fan makes, or is pulling our legs and is pretending not to have noticed it has no blades. I thought it was probably the latter, but when I asked Thing 2, she said Thing 1 was pretty convincing. And Thing 1 isn't very good at tricking, winding people up or any sort of foolery. I don't know what to think any more!