Friday, December 12, 2008

Hot & Cold Running Water


We have a faucet at work in one of the restrooms that hates me. This is a sort of binary tap; it runs either:

1) Icy, North Atlantic, Titanic just sank out from under me, bitterly deep-space cold.

2) Smoking, three-alarm, hand-scalding, lobster boiling hot.

There is no compromise. Oh, I have tried. You can occasionally get it right smack in between the two extremes, but even then you can feel the violent mixing, as the two enemy-temperatures fight it out on your skin.

3 comments:

Dennis said...

Didn't you read the yellow warning signs on the sinks; "HOT WATER IS VERY HOT". Now that you've been warned they're not liable.

Pamela Larkin said...

Bring the ramen noodles and make soup.

Alisa said...

I think the taps may be possessed by the Heat Miser and the Cold Miser.