Admittedly, I would've known that had I only gone to the trouble to actually remove them and take a better look. But that would've involved cutting the breaker, and I was just trying to get a quick look to see what I needed to buy.
Which reminds me.....what's weird about my house (and has made me grumpy before) is that my breaker box is outside on the South wall. I've never lived in another home that was done this way. Or even known anybody who lived in one. Breaker boxes are always in garages or a hallway....or something inside. It's weird to me that the thing is outdoors. Even my grandpa's house has an indoor box, and he built out the newer portion of that house where the box is in about 1950. My house was built in 2006.....it's not even that old.
My dad tells me this isn't as unusual as I think, and that it's a thing that happens. I've just never seen it. And it's a pain in the butt if I need to get to it and it's raining, or has been raining, or it's dark out.
I asked a friend of mine who moonlighted as an electrician in his earlier years how much he thought it'd cost to get that thing moved into the garage. He said "About two." I said "Two what?" He said "Too much," with a laugh. His way of saying leave it where it is.
