Ok, so about a year ago, I flipped the light switch to the back room where the washer and dryer was and the light blew out. FINE, get a new bulb and replace it, switch.... nothing. CRAP! Get another bulb, screw it in, switch... NOTHING. SONOFA... FINE!
I go tell Lobsterman, who immediately says "well, just put a new bulb in". This started a 15 minute rant about just how stupid do you think I am of course I already put TWO bulbs in, so any moron can see that its the stupid light switch and now I'll have to call an electrician and blah, blah, seriously, really, I mean am I that stupid, good gawd!
Today the other back room light blew. We didn't have bulbs, so I thought... well, there's a perfectly new stupid lightbulb in the socket where the switch is bad, I'll just use that.
I'll pause a minute while you realize that THE FREAKIN BULB DIDN'T WORK!!!
Yep, for a whole freakin year it was the lightbulbs. Went out to buy new ones (note to self: never go to Target the day before school starts), walked into Target, then straight back out of Target because people were fighting over notepads. Went to the grocery store (because I was out of ice cream anyway) and apparently Armageddon or a major snow storm was approaching, as there were no less than 500 people standing in line while my ice cream melted.Got home, and sure enough... stupid light works back there. I should be happy... but there's this distant nagging voice in the back of my head that a lightbulb made me look really stupid.
So, the lesson here is to try at least 400 lightbulbs before you call an electrician. On the bright side, at least I didn't call an electrician who would have said "duh, all you have to do is put in a new lightbulb" at which point I'd be in jail for shoving the electrician's body in the sump pump hole.
After the electrician replaced the ballast at my office, my gruff boss made him change every florescent tube in our building. Seemed silly to me, but everything is brighter now.
ReplyDeleteWould you believe we had this problem with our kitchen lights? 4 lightbulb did not work.
ReplyDeleteBut we did have to call the electrician and get new lights installed. So whilst I am poorer because we had to buy three new light fittings, at least we did have a real problem, other than bulbs I mean.