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Help help, I'm old
Jan. 1st, 2018 08:19 amI have a pretty little lamp in my "reading nook" where the couch and a bookcase are. This morning my pretty lamp fizzled and died.
Oh no, I thought, what's wrong? Is it broken? I flipped up the lampshade and ... oh.
Incandescent bulb.
I FORGOT WHAT A BULB BURNING OUT LOOKS LIKE.
Remember when we used to do this all the time? Lamps fizzling out and having their bulbs replaced was just ... a thing. You had to do it every year or two for every single light fixture you owned.
Now it's going to be one of those things that the next generation of adults don't even know about.
D:
(I mean, yes, non-incandescent light bulbs don't last forever either, but it's not a "constantly buying lightbulbs" kind of thing like it used to be.)
Oh no, I thought, what's wrong? Is it broken? I flipped up the lampshade and ... oh.
Incandescent bulb.
I FORGOT WHAT A BULB BURNING OUT LOOKS LIKE.
Remember when we used to do this all the time? Lamps fizzling out and having their bulbs replaced was just ... a thing. You had to do it every year or two for every single light fixture you owned.
Now it's going to be one of those things that the next generation of adults don't even know about.
D:
(I mean, yes, non-incandescent light bulbs don't last forever either, but it's not a "constantly buying lightbulbs" kind of thing like it used to be.)
