Minor things that please you

[gonealookin]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Corollary being:

When you're in a hotel, "H" actually means hot not cold and "C" means cold not hot, and you get it right within about 15 seconds.

Heh. You're making me think of the time when we were at the Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal and Ms1995hoo turned the "C" faucet all the way to its maximum setting. It never crossed her mind that the faucets were labelled in French. She got an unexpected surprise.

There are a lot of hotels in the US where you find that H and C are reversed.  I suspect it's an inside joke that plumbing contractors find endlessly funny, similar to Lucy pulling the football from Charlie Brown.

[GaryV]

I had a really weird hotel shower last weekend. There were two faucet knobs, one for hot and one for cold - ok, sorta normal so far.

But the cold knob turned on backwards. And the hot knob could be rotated continuously in either direction, going on then off then on then off ...

[1995hoo]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Corollary being:

When you're in a hotel, "H" actually means hot not cold and "C" means cold not hot, and you get it right within about 15 seconds.

Heh. You're making me think of the time when we were at the Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal and Ms1995hoo turned the "C" faucet all the way to its maximum setting. It never crossed her mind that the faucets were labelled in French. She got an unexpected surprise.

There are a lot of hotels in the US where you find that H and C are reversed.  I suspect it's an inside joke that plumbing contractors find endlessly funny, similar to Lucy pulling the football from Charlie Brown.

I can't say I've encountered that, although I have encountered single-knob (or single-lever) shower controls that either turn in an unexpected direction or have the hot water coming before the cold.

In the instance I mentioned, though, if Ms1995hoo had been paying more attention, she would have noticed that the one on the left (hot) said "C" and the one on the right (cold) said "F." That would have been a tip-off that something was different.

[Scott5114]

In the instance I mentioned, though, if Ms1995hoo had been paying more attention, she would have noticed that the one on the left (hot) said "C" and the one on the right (cold) said "F." That would have been a tip-off that something was different.

"C" and "F", obviously for "cold" and "French".

[kphoger]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Why do you turn the water off and then on again if you get it wrong?  I simply make minor adjustments with the water still on.

[1995hoo]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Why do you turn the water off and then on again if you get it wrong?  I simply make minor adjustments with the water still on.

Yeah, I always turn the water on to the highest setting because it initially comes out cold (the water heater is two floors down) and then I turn it down to the setting I want. I do turn the water off mid-shower to lather up with the soap and then turn it back on to rinse off, but keeping the same setting is easy there because we have the "Moentrol" style faucet where you set the temperature and then pull to turn on/push to turn off.

[D-Dey65]

Ever heard of Liberace?

Liberace never came out, though.

Oh, I thought he did towards the end of his life.

[D-Dey65]

Who is John Oliver?  Why is he "tenderizing meat" on a public social media platform?

I assume he's demonstrating how to prepare rump steak for rouladen.

You know, I still remember a time when cooking shows were few and far between. There was period where they existed on a lesser scale than local kids show hosts, and then around the same time, they were practically gone with the exception of Julia Child on "The French Chef."

Still trying to come up with a list of minor things that please me.

[Rothman]

Who is John Oliver?  Why is he "tenderizing meat" on a public social media platform?

I assume he's demonstrating how to prepare rump steak for rouladen.

You know, I still remember a time when cooking shows were few and far between. There was period where they existed on a lesser scale than local kids show hosts, and then around the same time, they were practically gone with the exception of Julia Child on "The French Chef."

Still trying to come up with a list of minor things that please me.

Cajun Chef!

[TheHighwayMan3561]

When you get the shower water temperature right the first time you turn the water on.

Why do you turn the water off and then on again if you get it wrong?  I simply make minor adjustments with the water still on.

Oops, it looks like my words weren't clear. What you wrote is what I meant; in my post, I meant getting the temperature right (or at least acceptable) the first time without having to make those adjustments mentioned.

[D-Dey65]

I just had one today. YouTube Music playlists that partially match tunes on one of my mix-tapes.

For example, one of my tapes contains "Sugar" by April March, followed by "The New Pollution," by Beck.

That list also included "Familiarity Breeds Contempt" by The Chills, but it's not followed by "Willie the Wimp" by Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Oh well.