Re: What is work? (was Re: Writing courses)

In article <X2Jzthd5OvkEFw73@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, julia.jones@xxxxxxxxx
says...
In message <4492eb41$0$31656$e4fe514c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Berna Bleeker
<berna.bleeker@xxxxxxxxx> writes

How are the light switches different?

You have to flip them the opposite way - in the UK they're off on the up
position, and you flip them down to turn the lights on. It's most
disconcerting when you switch countries and find that the light switches
work the opposite way. Muscle memory insists that it's *wrong*.

Except when they're "double" switches, where, say at opposite ends of a
hallway, there are two or more switches controlling the same light. If
you flip one switch to up to turn it on, then one switch will be up and
the other down, and you can flip either one to turn it off.

Usually, things can be set so that both switches are down, and the light
is off. The one in the hall outside my study was installed screwjah so
that this can never happen. One switch is up, the other down, when the
light is off. All you can do is vary which is which. *That* drives me
batty for some unfathomable reason.

--
"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves."
--George Plimpton

Joann Zimmerman jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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