I was having an ongoing problem with extremely hot water in my shower, a while back, due to abysmal cold water pressure (third floor in a 107 year-old building). Rough guesstimate, the water temp was around 125 degrees Fahrenheit. I could only approximate it, because my only available tool was a meat thermometer.
(I’m not really interested in pedantic, physics/hydrology critiques of my method, unless they come with a handy meat-thermometer-plus-ambient-temperature conversion spreadsheet, or something. Thanks in advance!)
Because it was clearly scalding hot (I couldn’t take it for more than a few seconds at a time), and I needed to prove to my landlord that I wasn’t playin’, I did some research on burn temps for hot water. Several sources cited my (ballpark) measurement of 120+ deg. as being seriously dangerous for people of advanced years. Apparently, water temps that “only” seem unbearably hot to us younger folks cause a lot of severe burns when found in a nursing home setting.
What I’m getting at here is that – if memory serves – the McDonald’s lady was fairly elderly when her burn occurred. Should that be taken into consideration, when we pick nits about whether her vagina was justified in melting?
