Wrong sort of engineer.

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It's nice to know you're not alone in incompetence when dealing with life's dilemmas, and foreign hotels rooms, with their multiplicity of unfamiliar switches and plugs, can absorb an awful lot of time in trying to understand how to work the appliances.


Coming back to my hotel room at a recent electronics conference I find the radio has been switched on. Ten minutes later I still can't work out how to turn it off and yank the lead from the mains socket.

The following night in the bar I hear someone saying: "When I got back to my room last night the radio was on. I tried to figure out how to turn it off, but eventually gave up and called reception. Reception said: 'I'll send an engineer'. I told them: 'I am an engineer'."

Wrong sort of engineer obviously.

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