MAX POWER!

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but whenever I have a slider/dial control of something, I refuse to put it on maximum.  Whether it’s the A/C in the car, volume on the TV or computer, or speed on a snowblower, I choose the option right below max.  I imagine a scene from some comic book or children’s TV show where a mad scientist dramatically pulls a lever on a machine with lightning shooting out.  I think I subconsciously feel that the machine is going to break or sustain long term damage when on the maximum setting, even though most of the time this isn’t true.  Whenever I see someone else driving who turns the air on high, music on loud, and accelerates very fast, I cringe.  I don’t think it’s as much about sympathy for the machines as it is a repellence for the personality type.