Ooops!

So, today our new lamp came. It is one of those standing ones that has three separate lights on it. I chose this because it was bought to sit behind my chair and for one of the lights to be my reading light. Fred and I put it together and I moved the other light. This one is going to be thrown out because it will not stay at the same height. It keeps dropping down and has to be hoisted up.

Now, in order to plug thiis light in, various pieces of furniture have to be moved, first to get the old light out and then to plug the new one in, and when it finally IS plugged in, the outlets appear to be dead! I moved the new light into the dining room and plugged it in there and all was well, so it wasn’t the light. So, I head off down the basement steps to check out the fuse boxes downstairs in the basement. Of course, our landlord had a pile of junk I had to climb over to get to the fuse boxes but when I finally got in there, everything seemed to be ok. So, I gave up and went round and left a note on his door asking him to come round and check out the outlets when he got home.

So, the landlord came in and I told him the problem. He plugged in the light and nothing happened. Then he said, "What’s this switch for?" And, oops!  At that point both Fred and I suddenly realized that the outlets and thus the light was controlled by this wall switch! And what really made this an occasion for red faces was that we were in the habit of using that wall switch to turn the old light on and off when we checked what the thermoset was set for! Anyway, we all had a good, if embarrassed, laugh and all is well.

The mess I made will be cleaned up tomorrow…

QUOTATIONS:

"There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957)