The Ambos must be hazard-prone family. When I was sixteen, and both of my parents were away for the day, I decided to string a long cable (left by the previous owner) overhead, to the former stable of the house. I fitted a plug and plugged it in to the empty and unused light socket of the unused coalhole and began stringing. I got it inside, down to the place where I hoped to build a bench. The cable was far too long so I took a pair of uinsulated pliers and squeezed tight. You guessed it...
Education has been defined as a change of behaviour resulting from experience. Dead right!
But there's more. When I was very young, in a former house, we had a twin-bar electric radiator on the floor of the bathroom (you know how cold it can get on the North Sea coast). My father designed the house and supervised it's building, and I can't believe he specified a bathroom socket, or that an electrician would comply. Our (now) old friend, the extension cable, must have been pressed into service.
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