Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve: Observations on Life, Tech and Web Design from a Slightly Misanthropic Mind

Tuber to the Rescue

Our elec­tric shower died at approx­im­ately 8pm on Friday, for no appar­ent reason. It wasn’t even in use at the time, but popped all the break­ers in the fuse box until I man­aged to isol­ate it. So hav­ing man­aged all week­end, I decided to go “old school” this even­ing and have a bath, before dis­cov­er­ing that in a fit of help­ful­ness Josh had thrown away the bathplug and not bothered to aquire a replacement.

So after the cus­tom­ary vol­ley of abuse in response so my ques­tion­ing the wis­dom of this, I wandered around the house look­ing for a suit­able sub­sti­tute. Scouring the rooms down­stairs look­ing for the plun­ger, I found the per­fect, if unlikely solu­tion: a potato. Selecting one of just the right size to smoothly cover the plug­hole, I went to try it out, and it worked with only minor leakage.

The only remain­ing chal­lenge was then to try to achieve some­thing like a warm bath using the kettle, as the hot water ran out fairly rap­idly. Isn’t hav­ing a water tank the size of a shoe­box fun?