A few spring to mind:
1 - Bags of wood, charcoal etc sealed at the top with string - is there a foolproof way to identify which bit to cut to easily ‘unzip’ as it all seemes to be trial and error to me
2 - Where do all the odd socks go?
3 - Why when searching frantically for something is it so often in the place you originally looked for it and checked a second time?
4 - What was the observation that prompted this in the first place?
More red lights than usual when you are running late. Conversely if you set off early it’s just green lights all the way!
Atb
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There’s a clear scientific basis for the very real mystery set out in your point (3) - the Theory of Temporary Invisibility.
The flipping thing has been there all the time, but you just couldn’t see it!
Alanis Morissette wrote a song about this - called ‘Ironic’.
(Although it has been claimed that, as she is Canadian, she can’t ‘get’ irony - which, I suppose, is ironic in itself!)
Where do PR girls learn that hair flick thing?
Whenever I wash up and then drain the water from the sink afterwards, there are always two teaspoons left near the plughole. Why?
If you are cooking something special one Sunday evening (ie after the shops have closed), the jar of the most essential ingredient in the fridge will turn out to have mould growing in it and the new jar you knew was in the cupboard will turn out to be something that looked identical, but is in fact completely different. Furthermore the packet of lovely fresh herbs that you bought specially only yesterday will have gone extinct overnight.
Quite, is it because you’re rushing and not checking carefully - must look that up.
The adjunct to that one is that whenever I can’t find something and order/buy a new one the original generally appears within a day or two of the new one arriving.
I’ve been searching for a multimeter for months, have resisted re-ordering one so of course the original (actually 2) has not yet reappeared!
But rest assured that it will re-appear, as if by magic, the day after its replacement reaches you through the postal service!
Whenever I fill and start the dishwasher having scoured the place for dirty crockery/cutlery, as soon as it’s been on for a few mins I find something else that could have gone in.
Same for the washing machine, I always find an extra something within minutes of starting a wash.
The difference, though, is that you can open a dishwasher during its wash programme, even if you’re not supposed to. You can’t do that with a washing machine - or, if you do, you’ll get wet feet!
Yes, I often pause the program and do that though I don’t think it always restarts perfectly (cheap Beko machine).
When our fancy direct drive 1600 spin Miele died with a lot of cacophony and smoke we got a Samsung washing machine simply as it was lighter, could be lifted into the car and was in stock at Currys. The more expensive Samsung washers had a ‘flap’ in the door through which you could add the missing sock/whatever during the wash - potentially handy I think.
As soon as you start to really like a product in the supermarket, they stop selling it. Grr!
Why oh why does my dog ask to go outside, only to turn immediately around and come back in?
Yep, I agree, all too often you think you’ve got a few jars of unopened whatever only to find you don’t.
It’s Americans who, Brits often claim, can’t get irony. Unless you’re being ironic…
Because he/she knows that you’re a sucker, only there to pander to his/her every whim!
If my Miele were human, it would have been eligible for driving lessons now. 4 kids, 18 yrs.
I have an amusing little booklet somewhere, given away by Tanqueray Gin, which explains that Canadians don’t ‘get’ irony. And Ms Morisette, who sang ‘Ironic’, is a Canadian national.
But I agree that a dry British sense of humour isn’t always understood by our American friends and neighbours.
Maybe mine was an outlier, but it was the most expensive consumer model available (circa £1300) when we had young kids, 10 year free warranty, great deal, ‘blew up’ after 12 years - suspect the bearings or something went given the smoke, it was a fantastic machine but I don’t think it would have been in any way economical to repair. Still have it stored actually as it’s too bloody heavy to move (around 110kg).
