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One of my family was having a morning shower in their flat a couple of days ago, when their bathroom (which has no windows) was plunged into total darkness, accompanied by the sound of breaking glass.
They managed to turn the shower off, and cautiously begin walking blindly across a presumably glass-strewn floor, and managed to get the locked bathroom door open to escape.
Accompanied by their flatmate (and armed by the light of their mobile phones) a careful search of the wet bathroom floor took place, which found....nothing.
Attempts to use the pullcord to try turning on the light again were useless, and then they discovered the entire missing broken lightbulb...in the toilet/WC.
It had somehow managed to detatch itself from the ceiling light-fitting, and fly in a slight graceful arc right into the loo.
The light-fitting is a bayonet style, so there is a bit of sprung tension to maintain electrical connection, and lightbulbs are quite aerodynamically-shaped, but it was quite a weird bid for bulb freedom.
They managed to turn the shower off, and cautiously begin walking blindly across a presumably glass-strewn floor, and managed to get the locked bathroom door open to escape.
Accompanied by their flatmate (and armed by the light of their mobile phones) a careful search of the wet bathroom floor took place, which found....nothing.
Attempts to use the pullcord to try turning on the light again were useless, and then they discovered the entire missing broken lightbulb...in the toilet/WC.
It had somehow managed to detatch itself from the ceiling light-fitting, and fly in a slight graceful arc right into the loo.
The light-fitting is a bayonet style, so there is a bit of sprung tension to maintain electrical connection, and lightbulbs are quite aerodynamically-shaped, but it was quite a weird bid for bulb freedom.