Skill Pills
A light bulb moment
A light bulb in one of my rooms fused last week. While changing a bulb is a fairly straightforward task, this particular lamp shade is a bit difficult to remove and I used to leave it to my trusted handyman Justin*, to navigate. After weighing the pros and cons of inviting another set of hands into the home, and the sanitisation circus that followed, the option to do it myself seemed more appealing. Job done, I felt a strange sense of satisfaction. I’m sure there are many more efficient at the task and those who would have got it done in 2 minutes, while I took 20. But the 20 minutes I took was much less than the two hours of overall planning and coordination it would have taken to get Justin into the house and safely out. Navigating cookie who is a ferocious protector of her territory and Sushmita* who is an equally fierce protector of every surface that Justin may or may not have come into contact with, is an exercise in itself.
