I had a problem with the lamp.
The bulb went out as I switched it on. I switched off, went rummaging and found a new bulb.
I removed old bulb, placed it on desk besides new one and got interested in something on laptop.
I returned to bulb, inserted, switched on - nothing!
I removed bulb and replaced it again, firmly this time, and switched on.
Nothing.
Resentfully I then went two whole days in semi darkness before getting round to checking the plug.
This meant crawling under the desk into a world of dust, dead men's bones and plugs. Eventually the right one was removed. Opened it revealed an ageing 3A fuse. I searched the fuses lying in heap on the mantelpiece for reasons unknown to discover only 5A and 13A available. UK standards insist on 3A for lamps.
I trudge out among the masses once again to the Indian ironmonger type shop where almost all those little things you require can be found cheap. China must love this man! Having stared at the wall covered in electrical bits for an age he came over and went to the fuses which were naturally right in front of me.
Home again I replaced the fuse, entered the murky world beneath the desk wondering how long that half sandwich had lain there and inserted plug into its place.
Above I grasped bulb and shoved it where it goes, switched on, nothing!
It was at this point that I noticed another bulb still in the box.
Removing this I tried that one in the lamp, switched on and light flooded the grime filled room.
I had been using the old bulb instead of the new....
It was Christmas Eve in the Care Home
and drugs had not been given out....
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5 comments:
I had a right royal tantrum in the chicken house when changing the bulb on the light for the baby chicks....for the same reason as yourself.
And when I eventually discovered what I had done half an hour later what puzzled me was that, when held side by side, the new bulb looked about as undistinguished as the old one.
Merry Christmas...and watch what they dole out on the drug round...
What's this electricity thing you speak of? I thought you would be shivering by the glow (and warmth) of a single candle in true Northern Christmas spirit :)
Hmmmmmm....I'd kind of come to that conclusion myself long before you did, but I didn't want to say anything in case you snapped my head off!
The drugs may not have been given out, but that doesn't mean that you didn't snitch a few when nobody was looking. (I wonder who "nobody" is. He's probably related to the infamous "they")!
Merry Christmas, Adullamite. You definitely are going to have a merry one because I've wished you so about a million times already! Slight exaggeration, I know...but only slight! :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Fly, I blame the Chinese making the bulbs!
Carol, I have switched the electric off to save money, I am making my own electricity by use of a cycle attached to a windmill.
Lee, I was talking to nobody the other day, they threw me off the bus!
Jerry, And the same to you young sir!
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