This happened to dh yesterday with the iron. He was pressing the backing for his wall quilt. He asked "How do you turn on this iron?" I asked, "Did you turn it to 3 or 4?" "Yes and it is plugged in to the power strip and the power strip is plugged into the wall." Ooops, I forgot to tell him I had turned off the power strip since nothing was plugged into it and it was on wasting electricity. lol.