Thursday, June 09, 2005
"The Clapper"
This invention is very convenient, we know. You're in bed, all cozy and reading Don Quixote, for example, and you're falling asleep, because well, let's face it, Don Quixote isn't exactly the most exciting material in the world, but wait! Your light is still on! You begrudgingly get up out of your comfy covers to turn off the light, and you stub your toe on your dog's rawhide. Now you're bouncing around, holding your toe. You finally fall back into bed, but now you're not so tired anymore, so you're forced again to read Don Quixote. This example is punishment enough, so you buy the Clapper. Alright, this is good in principle, but there are some flaws in the Clapper. The only problem with this invention is that it promotes an increasingly growing problem in America today: laziness. The Clapper completely cancels out the only exercise some Americans get today: getting off their lazy asses and turning off the light themselves. And is it just us or does clapping require the same amount of energy as flicking a light switch?
Mike and Elle at 12:20 PM
2 Comments
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at 3:31 PM
s-hooks said... If you have a dog like mine, the two claps will start a barking fit which would probably engaged the clapper to switch the lights on and off until the dog finally settles down, and then who knows if the dog finishes with the lights on or off. If they're on again you'd have to clap, and start the whole thing over. I'm convinced I'd never sleep if I had a clapper in my house.
Maybe instead of the clapper, just get a long stick that reaches to your light switch.-
at 9:44 AM
Jack said...
While I agree that in some cases, the Clapper might promote laziness, I imagine it would be very helpful to the elderly.
JB