Wot’s in then? Why the cloths dryer of course. In and working.
One thing that was a bit of a surprise, was the fitters. Carried the dryer into the kitchen, unpacked – never seen so much polystyrene – asked where it was going and that’s when it started.
The two fitters looked at each other then asked where the mains socket was. I showed them it was attached to the back of the adjoining base unit cupboard. They looked at each other again and said I’d need a kitchen fitter to get the dryer mains lead and plug to the socket into the base of the unit, along the bottom, up the back between the wall and the back-panel of the unit and out through the hole and into the cupboard to get to the socket.
Said I to them, “Let’s try this first.” Again they looked at each other and I could see they were thinking, ‘Last call of the day and we get a nutter.’
“Okay,” says I to the guy crouching by the dryer space, “take that string and tie it to the mains lead at the plug. Okay? Now,” to the other guy, “push the dryer home slowly.” As he pushed, I pulled my end of the messenger string and there it was; the plug popped out the pre-cut hole at the back of the unit and I plugged him in. The two fellows looked at each other, yet again, but this time with a look that suggested they’d been privileged to witness the second coming.
How did I position the string in the first place? Obviously when I pulled the old mains lead out, messenger string attached.
Hard to believe this was a revelation to full-time domestic appliance fitters and one wonders how many folk have resorted to the expense of chippies and amp-tramps regards this type of task that needs no more than a length of string.
On a final note, it was with unbridled joy I discovered this dryer can, with an app, be operated remotely via a phone of the smart variety.
You believe that? Wot’s the oft repeated media safety call? Never, ever leave a dryer running if nobody’s going to be home, right? So they offer the option to remotely operate a heat generating electrical appliance, containing soon to become dry, flammable textiles, to the smartphone generation? Wot could possibly go wrong eh? Ah shacks ma heed.
Quote; Amit Kalantri.
“Texting is not talking and a phone is not a friend.”
2 comments:
Ahh.. the internet of things. Not only driers but washers, toasters, fridges, microwaves, doorbells, dishwashers, smart light bulbs etc. Very clever, apart from allowing remote control by phone, they can also grass you up to your energy supplier whenever you use them. This allows the energy supplier to build a profile of your living habits and charge you accordingly (and its always more).
Daughter just had a new LG fridge freezer, one of them thar American kind. It has an LCD panel in the door and if you tap it twice it will show you what's in the fridge without opening the door. It has wi-fi and bluetooth, and will send you a shopping list to your phone. Ice and water dispensers with the option of being plumbed in to the water supply.
As for my fridge, last time the daughter came here, she looked in there and said "dad - you have nothing in your fridge!" To which I replied "Yes I have, there's a light".
Regarding those installers, you could have done worse. Or could you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIR3daaksYU
I work with a lot of people like that.
Ripper,
Man, a remotely operated toaster? NEED one!
I can imagine a fridge as you describe going nuts when my little nest of vipers put some of her road kill and rice inside. “Whoa! You can’t eat that!”
Let’s not forged that this tech reliant generation all seem to need their houses filled with talking tin cans and I’m guessing very few of ‘em realise those cans are constantly listening to ‘em.
It’ll all be for nothing when we totally rely on wind for power and on calm days they have nobody to talk to or tell 'em what to do...
It seems that thinking for ones self is slowly being done away with by technology - and modern teaching.
All part of the grand plan? I thought 1984 was a scary novel not a ‘user’ manual.
So as we edge ever closer to some sort of evil dystopian future, how long before personal thinking actually does becomes a crime? Probably sooner than we wish to think.
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