Nespresso? Absolutely nospresso
“DON’T use the?Nespresso?machine!” said youngest teenager as we looked round the Airbnb kitchen.
This felt like a very bizarre warning for a 16-year-old to proffer two minutes into our holiday.
What had his teenage brain spotted that my middle-aged noggin had not? Had he perhaps seen traces of ketamine sprinkled in the water tank? Was there a gangland message in the way the coffee pods had been stacked? Maybe we’d entered some Airbnb turf war that I was blissfully unaware of – like the time he’d had to explain to me that trainers tied together and lobbed over telephone wires were to do with county lines and not a modern take on village bunting.
The truth was even more surprising. He went on to explain:
“They are REALLY annoying to clean."
Youngest has an occasional job cleaning a local Airbnb when the owners are away. It turns out that the first thing he does is check the?Nespresso machine to see if the guests have used it. If they have not, he does a silent dance of joy and proceeds to cleaning the shower. If they?have?used it, he braces himself for 10 minutes of faffing with a bottle brush and a rolled-up jay cloth.
My takeaway? If we want to really understand something, nothing beats?experiencing it.?If we want someone else to really understand something, how can we get allow them to?do it?
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How might this look in your world?
Job shadowing? A site visit? Joining a meeting? Recording a ‘day in the life of our department’ to show at the next all company conference? Reverse mentoring? Rotating who chairs a meeting? Rotating certain house chores across family members throughout the year?
We had an absolutely lovely time climbing Sugar Loaf Mountain in Wales over the Bank Holiday (OK technically it is a hill, but it’s only 5 ft short of a mountain so we jumped up and down on the top a couple of times to make up the deficit).??We stayed in a lovely Airbnb. We enjoyed some glorious cups of coffee…
And we left the?Nespresso?machine spick and span…
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1 个月Great post Harriet Beveridge although it did take a while to get to the end because I was laughing so much at the “to do with county lines and not a modern take on village bunting.”. One of the things I find fascinating is that as humans we can trick our bodies and minds into believing we have actually experienced something simply by visualising and creating the associated emotion. Helpful with overcoming limiting beliefs but probably not so much with cleaning Nespresso machines.
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1 个月Your son’s quick thinking about the Nespresso machine is brilliant! Love how his cleaning experience kicked in right away—what a pro! Shows how much perspective really matters. Great story. And as someone (only person) who used to clean the nespresso in the office once upon of time, I feel his pain!