Tuesday, June 5, 2007

It happens only in India - part 2

Ever called a carpenter over for getting a hole drilled in the wall??? Or, when your home is being renovated, ever noticed the carpenter use the electric drill to drill a hole in the wall or some woodwork???

There is something really peculiar about that. Right from school, to college (engineering even, since I did it in electronics), I was told time and again that any electric applicant MUST have a plug at its end. Never leave the 2 wires open. But carpenters here never, and as a rule NEVER, have even a 2-pin plug at the end of their electric drills!!! They always end up jacking the 2 wires into the mains socket, and hold that in place typically with a 'maachis ki teeli' (a matchstick).

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