Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Light bulb moment

Light bulb moments sure are magical things, I had three of them this very evening.

The risks of light bulb moments are many, but the rewards are great.  You risk being killed stone dead, because you forgot which way the switch should be (off is good, but can be hard to predict on those two switch lights at the top of the stairs for example), an even greater risk is that the extra light will just show you that a particular part of the house, which you had thought was looking particularly snazzy lately actually has a huge amount of dirt temporarily hidden by the darkness, and then the worst risk of all is that you'll open the box of light bulb, yes light bulb, to find that it's got no two pins to hold it hanging up in the fixture or else it has - but your fixture is missing the holes to hold the pins.

my light bulb moments of this evening revealed one further risk - poorly matched bulbs.  It's such a shame when you buy a bulb to put in a light that has three bulbs, and the other two are all fancy and pointed and the new one added in there looks like a complete tool (unfashionable or stupid person)

Don't say you haven't been warned.

7 comments:

The Dead Acorn said...

I'm not sure whether to interpret this as literal or as a very complex metaphor the meaning of which I am unable to grasp (light bulbs are often over my head). But I did learn something about international light fixture standards reading about the "two pins" thing.

Changing a bulb in a two-switch circuit is about the most stressful thing one can undertake in the home.

The Bug said...

I'm unfamiliar with the pin business too - our bulbs screw instead of pinning. Not that your way is wrong!

Dominic Rivron said...

How many bloggers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Niamh B said...

Acorn & Bug - I should apply for a grant from the world central agency for knowledge sharing and education for my work in illuminating the issue of pins in bulbs - shouldn't i?

Dominic - None - but the light bulb really has to want to change - or do you have a better answer?

The Dead Acorn said...

Just one to actually change the bulb, but it’s helpful to have a few others who will take note of and comment on the changing and the new bulb, lest the blogger fear that the illumination has lit only uninhabited emptiness and that no eyes have received the light, and thereby not be driven to change light bulbs often. Or something.

Dominic Rivron said...

No. It was a kind of rhetorical lightbulb joke.

Niamh B said...

We've definitely ruined it on you now so Dominic!!