#1534 – Boinged

There’s a light fixture in my basement that is one of those generic single bulb with a pull chain deals. The chain broke off years ago. So now to turn that light off I just unscrew the bulb slightly until it goes out. It’s still screwed in far enough that it holds it in there. Every time I twist that bulb to turn it on I think “Oh yeah, I really need to fix that.” It’s been 10 years of that so far.

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11 thoughts on “#1534 – Boinged”

  1. Azkyroth says:

    I’d think burning your fingers would drive the point home.

  2. Ian says:

    In my first apartment the kitchen light was like that. Trouble was the fixture was hanging by a wire too. It was fine until the day the fixture, in a shower of sparks, came off in my hand.

  3. How many Biff’s *does* it take to change a lightbulb?

    1. rexxar says:

      seventeen

  4. Biff had super-long arms a couple of weeks ago or something like that. Wouldn’t it be a better idea to change the lightbulb while having long arms? Or maybe if his eyebrows are moveable, then he could stand on top of a chair or something and change the lightbulb using his eyebrows!

  5. kingklash says:

    You ever notice that those cap bombs, if you drop them onto cement, sound a lot like a light bulb breaking?

  6. Baughbe says:

    Even more fun is the light bulb high up over a staircase. What genius though of that one?

    1. pbarnrob says:

      The guy who sells those funky ladder extenders, fore/aft/port/starboard, so you can fall gracefully down the stairs when it lets go!

  7. glass house says:

    They make a screw in extender that screws into the socket has a chain and a bulb screws into it. Growing up that’s how we turned off one of the lights in our basement.
    ‘Course, when the chain broke we just tied a string to the leftover chain.

  8. Sam says:

    Hmmm, I could see myself doing, because ladders are boring

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