Just for the bulb
--How many electric shops have light bulbs in the UK?
Two weeks ago, the light bulb in the kitchen burnt out. I had never ever expected it's such hard work to change a bulb. If you are Japanese, you just go to Yodobashi Camera, Yamada Denki, Best Denki, or some other electric shops, you can definitely get one, very easily. I had thought it's the same here, quite natural. Who could imagine, electric shops without selling bulbs?? Here, electric lines seems to be different from each shop range, even if they are called electric shop. Or maybe nobody care if their bulb is out? But I did care, because I had to cook in the dark kitchen for last 2 weeks!
At first, we struggled to undo a cover because of big and sensitive glass cover, and also it was a overhead light. We have a ladder but it was not high enough to change it. You know, it's not easy to do work with arms extended up. If you lose your concentration, you would fall off or drop a glass cover, but you have to keep a hard position for a while.
We went to buy a bulb today. Actually we walked around the town and popped in seven shops. Seven shops! I can't believe it! But they didn't have the same type of bulb. So we went to another electric shop but unfortunately it was closed! It said opening hour is 10:00am on Saturday. It was a couple minutes before, so we waited in front of the shop. -10:00, 5 minutes is passed, 10 minutes is passed, but it was still closed. Hello, it's already past 10:00. Anybody here? How annoying! My BF called the shop, but person who talked on a phone seemed like not knowing the shop details.
Before long, an old couple came to the shop to buy a bulb. They were a lovely couple, as soon as they knew the shop is closed, the old man knocked the door and examined the shop, but the old woman stopped him doing that. He seemed like a completely henpecked husband:) They went to the park to sit down until the shop open. They probably could get a bulb later I think. We went to the city centre to have a coffee, and went back to the shop later. It was open and we could get the bulb we wanted at last!
Soon after we came home, we changed the bulb in the kitchen. It was hard work as well, but finally we successed to change the bulb in the kitchen! Yes! The problems were it was a special sized fluorescent bulb, it was covered with delicate glass, and I am short and couldn't reach the ceiling, and my bf kept slipping over. ;) So it took two weeks and a whole morning to change it.
Two weeks ago, the light bulb in the kitchen burnt out. I had never ever expected it's such hard work to change a bulb. If you are Japanese, you just go to Yodobashi Camera, Yamada Denki, Best Denki, or some other electric shops, you can definitely get one, very easily. I had thought it's the same here, quite natural. Who could imagine, electric shops without selling bulbs?? Here, electric lines seems to be different from each shop range, even if they are called electric shop. Or maybe nobody care if their bulb is out? But I did care, because I had to cook in the dark kitchen for last 2 weeks!
At first, we struggled to undo a cover because of big and sensitive glass cover, and also it was a overhead light. We have a ladder but it was not high enough to change it. You know, it's not easy to do work with arms extended up. If you lose your concentration, you would fall off or drop a glass cover, but you have to keep a hard position for a while.
We went to buy a bulb today. Actually we walked around the town and popped in seven shops. Seven shops! I can't believe it! But they didn't have the same type of bulb. So we went to another electric shop but unfortunately it was closed! It said opening hour is 10:00am on Saturday. It was a couple minutes before, so we waited in front of the shop. -10:00, 5 minutes is passed, 10 minutes is passed, but it was still closed. Hello, it's already past 10:00. Anybody here? How annoying! My BF called the shop, but person who talked on a phone seemed like not knowing the shop details.
Before long, an old couple came to the shop to buy a bulb. They were a lovely couple, as soon as they knew the shop is closed, the old man knocked the door and examined the shop, but the old woman stopped him doing that. He seemed like a completely henpecked husband:) They went to the park to sit down until the shop open. They probably could get a bulb later I think. We went to the city centre to have a coffee, and went back to the shop later. It was open and we could get the bulb we wanted at last!
Soon after we came home, we changed the bulb in the kitchen. It was hard work as well, but finally we successed to change the bulb in the kitchen! Yes! The problems were it was a special sized fluorescent bulb, it was covered with delicate glass, and I am short and couldn't reach the ceiling, and my bf kept slipping over. ;) So it took two weeks and a whole morning to change it.
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