Yes, really. This is a thing I did not know existed until the other day, and I would’ve been happy to go my whole life without realizing such a thing existed.
And now I’m just torn up about it. I know that might seem silly. We have so many bigger fish to fry. But somehow all these little fish are connected to the big fish.
I heard someone commenting on having to go to the store to get a something something for the remote control for their ceiling fan, and I was thinking, I’m sorry, what? Isn’t there just a pull-cord?
There are lots of other things I need to be thinking about but somehow the ceiling fan thing just seems to pop up.
Like when someone online was sharing a post about extremely pedestrian-friendly street design in NYC.
When I read that great-news-sharing post, that ceiling fan remote control popped into my mind. And I commented on the post:
People are stubborn about their cars in most parts of the USA. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I heard that there are now ceiling fans with remote-control devices. Like really? What about just walking across the room and pulling on the cord? Geez, no wonder people in most USA cities aren’t willing to walk to a bus stop, if they’re not even willing to get up to turn a fan on and off.
(But in British colonial India, the fatcat Brits and other Euro colonizers employed “punka-wallas”, house servants tasked with manually operating the ceiling fan by working a pulley system for hours on end. I bet there were shifts around the clock. So really I shouldn’t be surprised.)
I would’ve thought we would’ve learned our lesson from TV remote controls. Probably spend more time and energy walking around looking for batteries for them, and/or troubleshooting why they’re not working properly, than we were spending back in the days when we were just getting up and changing the TV channel.
There are probably lots of other examples you can think of like this.