I have replaced the perfectly functioning wheels on my daughter’s scooter with cool flashy flashing ones. Now I am riven with anxiety over what to do with the originals. My fear is that these replacements might be inferior, and when they break I’ll have to buy originals as replacements; this will be both expensive and attract the ire of daughter as they’re not flashy/ing.
But if I keep them, I will place them safely into a drawer somewhere and lose them, knowing that I’ll find them days or even hours after I finally give up looking and order a new pair.
Currently they are on the kitchen worktop, generating irritated glances (although no comments yet) from the wife. It’s the clothes washing area, which I need to deal with carefully as that is the one domestic task that has remained solely hers since I stopped work.
1|) Deploy carrot au stick
2) Play Kiki Dee
3) Hoof Glue
4) Self sabotage by puncturing new tires
5) Become a Mormon
6) Invite drunken Morris dancers to perform in your abode
7) Set fire to the house
8) Porn Hub
9) Seek help
10) Buy the better tires
In fairness, my plumber actually finished a thing today. It wasn’t the thing he was supposed to finish, but he did finish, and it only took twice as long as expected.
Turn them into a mobile (you know, bits of old coathanger, fishing line etc) and hang them tastefully in your daughter’s bedroom. That way she will be entertained* and if you ever need them again you’ll know where they are.
maybe this should be in the CP thread, but what is it with hotels that don’t give you sockets to charge your stuff by the bed or sufficient accessible sockets so you don’t have to dismantle the room to find a socket.
oh and while I’m at it why do they only supply bathrobes that would fit a child…
It’s mostly about money. Hotels work on tight margins and splashing sockets around costs money, as does providing additional circuits at the consumer unit for lots more sockets. A secondary problem is that in all but the newest hotels the first fix electrics would have been done at a time before we needed charging points every few feet around the room. It’s one thing to re-do the second fix every few years, which allows a single socket to be expanded to a cluster of two, or even four, but it’s quite another to start chopping new wiring into the plasterwork, or even running surface-mount trunking tidily.
