Sixty or so years ago, TBG made this pump lamp at summer camp.
That's what we used to say when the filament in the regular kind became disengaged and discolored. I don't know if the squiggly bulb has the same internal mechanism; its surface is opaque. I use burned out idiomatically these days, I guess.
I went to the light bulb drawer in the garage and found this:
I unscrewed the squiggly one and inserted the new one and unfolded the box to recycle it. As Big Cuter often reminds the world, if there are words, we will read them. And so, walking to the kitchen, I read the verbiage.
There were instructions.
This was not a "how many old people does it take to change a lightbulb" joke.....or was it? TBG postulated that it was a halogen bulb, but halogen's not a word on the box.
Instead, I read "digital device" and I stopped in my tracks.
The lightbulb, a concept that has been illuminating the indoors without much effort or interaction with its environment since 1879, now needs a manual and a decoder ring.
Honestly, I am just too old for this world.
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I used AI for the first time today, opting for it to do its magic on the electric cord on the right edge of the photo. The bottom left corner has a disclaimer.
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A disclaimer.
I am definitely too old.
New light bulbs confuse the heck out of me.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I'm not alone. The word light bulb is missing from the box. What did I buy???
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As long as it works I don't even try to understand it anymore.
ReplyDeleteYup!
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We are midway through move to new state. At 77 and 80, we are lost in space - turn this on and turn that off; deliver this here or there, etc. We had all new light fixtures installed in new house, every one needing some different and obscure bulb. My eyes cross when I stand in front of the bulb display at the hardware store too long.
ReplyDeleteI take the instructions/old bulb/a picture of the inside to my local Ace Hardware, hold them in my hand with a pitiful look on my face, and trust the helpful folks +.
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