Brian H wrote: Rather like the ones on the wall I gather. Up is on, down is off.
Gone are the simple days. Since we dropped the trade barriers, all kinds of nefarious practices have become common. I speak of the dual switch fiasco. You have one switch at one entry, and another on the other side of the room. So if you turn one up/on, the one on the other side is now down/on. This leads to new combinations.
Of course, some of the switches don’t get it. “Oh, I see. I was up/on yesterday, and then the person switched my counterpart up/off, so now the light is off, but, dear me – they’re switching me and nothing seems to be happening…”
It’s a conspiracy. They know we’re lazy and they just want to get us to cross that room – again and again.
This is what happens when you let standards lapse. Chaos. Inconvenience.