Yes chaps, those posts brought back some memories.
For example, being sent down to the local Greengrocer's to get some pine-wood fruit packing cases to fuel the chip-heater to run a bath
It's funny how some old foibles still hang with my generation, though.
An old school-friend of mine, now interstate, who I visit from time to time (and now a multi-millionaire), has a thing about wasting electricity.
He would INSIST that a 15W globe illuminating the main stairway late at night be extinguished because it was 'wasting electricity'.
At the same time, he has a three-phase, 3000W pool heating and filtering system running out the back.
He's one of those people that feels the need to have a hot shower twice a day - but keeps them short because he doesn't want to waste water and electricity.
Hello?
He got his come-uppance one night a while back, though.
The poor chap came a cropper down that darkened stairway which laid him up for the better part of twelve months - during which time he had the opportunity to reflect on the wisdom of unthinking 1940s-style parsimony.
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Last edited by Stanwell; 21st Jul 2016 at 23:32.