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07/31/2002 Entry: "In the dark"
OK, so the bulb in my dimmable uplighter blew. I need a new bulb, or it's gonna get kinda dark in my lounge.
It has this weird shaped 150W screw-in bulb. I'm sure the local Sainsburys used to sell them. No such luck. They are too damn weird - i.e. it's a screw fitting, and a funny shape! OK, so "screw fitting = weird".
Still doesn't stop them making my wallet lighter, as I bought some groceries while I was there.
OK, so, I think I'll try B&Q Warehouse. For our American viewers, it's just Home Despot, even down to cheerful orange aprons, but in an English-stylie.
I get there just before 9pm. They close at 9pm. Already the staff are in the "shooing customers out" mode, which means they stand there and ignore anyone trying to get in.
I manage to get someone's attention. They said, "No, sorry, we're shut". I explained that all I wanted to do was buy a lightbulb. Not an entire bathroom or kitchen. Not to get sky-blue-pink paint mixed specially for me. Just a lightbulb. On a piece of cardboard. "Come on, I know what I want". A fucking lightbulb, so I don't have to sit in darkness, or 100W blindness from the ceiling fitting.
But no, it's more than their jobsworth.
As it turns out, I was only feet away from the bulb I want... the website has this one. It's a cousin of the dead bulb (which is 150W), but it would have done. Hey, maybe they even had a 150W flavour. Nyaaaagh.
As I was saying to Mercatur, I guess it just serves me right for buying Ikea. Strange Swedish stuff. But CHEAP as Merc helpfully pointed out. Then we come on to a discussion which made me think we have the same IKEA bed-sofa - which got kinda scary. Then it wasn't. They were different. The sofa-beds. You know. Whatever...
