A recent telephone call: “You’ve installed a lovely shower for us. We’re really pleased with the work, but there is no water coming out.”
ME: “Is there water coming out of the taps?”
“Oh yes, and the shower worked yesterday when your men were here.”
ME: “So you can clean your teeth and flush the toilet, what more do you need? Of course, that is how you keep your shower looking all lovely and new, but it will get a little dusty.”
The caller had a sense of humour - not everyone does.
I informed Mr T.P. who was at a nearby house in Ramsgate. Within an hour he called back to tell me the shower worked perfectly, the customers simply did not know how to turn it on!
How we laughed. This is far from being a one off incident. Only this morning Mr T.P. returned from a house in Pegwell, again delighted with their new bathroom but the shower was not working.
“Have you tried the obvious?”
Mr T.P. asked the resident, “turning it on.”
Please do not think I’m poking fun at other people - when ever we stay away from home I always have to ask Mr T.P. to turn the shower on and explain how it works… and how do I change the temperature.
I have also had a problem with light switches. They are almost always in the same place, on the wall, just inside the door. Yet I have managed to visit countless houses where I can not find the switch - hunting around inside and outside the room pushing and pulling at everything whilst reciting “Let there be light”. This, of course, is at the most inconvenient time - usually if have to get up in the middle of the night.
Mr T.P.s’ parents have a dimmer switch which is in the usual position but it is a mystery how to operate it.
Let’s not even discuss the domestic nightmare which is the roller blind….
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