Better to change the lightbulb (twice) than to curse the darkness

Lady Penelope and I have just endured six weeks of darkness. The light in the toilet had gone. Call it a shot in the dark, if you like, but we'd changed the bulb. This was obvious, of course, so the suspect dodgy switch was given the blame when the new bulb failed to deliver any fresh light on the subject.

Penelope's son is an electrician-in-training, so we patiently adapted, waiting for him to come back and fix it.

Fix it, he did.

He replaced the bulb again.

It worked.

And, yes, I feel really stupid.

Really stupid!

Not much of a man, am I, eh?

(If 'man' = 'DIY expert')

Moral: It's about changing your lightbulb... twice

I don't feel alone, though.

I'm willing to believe you've got something that's not working in your life - something you've tried already (unsuccessfully) to fix. So you've shifted the blame, or at very least shifted your attention onto something else... the wrong something else. It's time to return to your original 'fix' and give it another go.

Go back to the lightbulb and try another one.

I'm walking away from the darkness with a clear lesson: check more than one lightbulb - in other words, don't quit too quickly.

What's your lightbulb that isn't working at the moment? I'd love to know.

It reminds me of a joke:

How many long-suffering mothers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer

None

Why?

Because they'd rather suffer in the dark

(and moan about it!)

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NB. for those folks who've followed my blogs for the last couple of years, you may be feeling an uncanny sense of déjà vu! You may remember the peculiar incident of me mowing my father's lawn not realising that his mower had not one but two brakes that needed releasing! Yes, I teach Accelerated Learning!!!