Having time on your hands is not always such a good thing. My reason for thinking this is the amount of small things that seem to annoy me that I never had time to even think about before. I got up at what I thought was the right side of the bed this morning but alas it was all in vain when it came to making my first cup of tea of the day and ending up with scalded toes and nearly as much water out of the cup as there was in it. For the last three months of using this kettle I have tried every possible method of pouring water and always get the same result. Water, water, everywhere but not so much to drink. This is not a cheap kettle and is made by a very big European manufacturer which leads you to think when purchasing that all functions of the kettle should be designed to give a satisfactory performance. I mean, how wrong can they get it ? I only want a cup of tea. We’ve been boiling water in vessels on home fires for centuries, if the disciples could do it with their limited resources why can’t we with today’s modern advances?
Back to the kettle in hand. I have to wonder if whoever designed it actually ever tested it, or if it was some kind of sick joke of theirs ? Somewhere under the heading of ‘how wrong can you get this simple every day kitchen utility ?’. I’m thinking rocket science isn’t in it. Design a kettle with a spout which pours water in the direction intended and not finish up with a pool of water every time. I don’t even expect perfection, the odd drip doesn’t seem unreasonable, needing to wear steel toe caps to make that drink though seems to sit somewhere on the wrong side of functional - yep, the designer must have been a) drunk or b) having a laugh. Furthermore, the amount of health and safety boys blighting industry at the moment have surely missed out on a golden opportunity with this one. I suppose they would point out I was not wearing hard hat, gloves and safety boots at the time of making my cuppa so the manufacturers could hardly be blamed for my second degree burns. Though I should point out that nowhere in the instructions did it mention that at least being able to tread water was a prerequisite of using this kettle! On the other hand, it is all coming together now, learning to swim in your PJ’s has long since been on the school curriculum, since I rarely wonder around lakes/pools/the sea and other dangerous open waters unclothed in the middle of the night (ruling out the chances of actually needing to save myself or somebody else in my baggy flannel bottoms) it stands to reason that Swimming instructors everywhere have learned the perils of a defunct kettle!
Ahhhh well, back to bed for me I think and try to get out on the right side when I once more arise, hopefully with the design ready to patent for reinforced slippers…
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