My bedroom is small. I try to not spend very much time in there. But I sleep there. It’s VERY cold.
I have an amazingly delightful electric blanket, but sometimes I forget to turn it on.
When I forget to turn it on, it’s far too cold to sleep for at least twenty minutes. Being encased in frosty blankets isn’t exactly snugly. So when that happens I quite often keeping working away on my laptop in bed. The problem is, I don’t take my laptop charger with me. Why not?
Because there are two power points in my bedroom. Only two. One is the phone charger, one is the electric blanket. It’s probably a good thing too, because you’d have to amputate a leg to get any other electrical equipment in such a small room without tearing a hole in the space time continuum or employing the likes of the Luggage or maybe Mary Poppins handy handbag..
Funny thing is though, there’s a phone jack for a land line, bang in the middle of the wall.
Room size = (insufficient)m²
Power points = 2
Phone jacks = 1
If we keep this ratio of 2:1 and go on to apply it to a standard sized room.
Room size = (sufficient)m²
Power points = 6
Phone jacks = 3
THREE phone jacks, for a standard sized room. Three. And to be honest that is most probably true for this house. There is a huge abundance of phone jacks and lack of power points. Like they used to run some kind of call centre here…
I wonder if they did. I wonder what they dealt in. Probably compact sleeping repositories if my bedroom is anything to go by.
The funniest thing in the entire situation is the fact that my bed repository has a walk-in wardrobe. Which appears to be warmer and more heavily insulated than my room itself. Maybe I should downsize into the wardrobe. Sleep vertically. Save space and power for heating. Good point, I should check the wardrobe for power points and phone jacks…
The term ‘phone jack’ doesn’t make all that much sense either really.Phone Jack.
Certainly, let me just grab his number, what did you want me to tell him?
Yeah. Not the most descriptive naming conventions used…not that we can expect much more from the ol’ English language.
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