How many programmers…
...does it take to change a light bulb?
Hah! Gotcha! Just one. Me!
Well, not before I had to go downstairs to the security guard and try to borrow a ladder (our ceilings are about 11 or 12 feet, and despite me thinking I'm as tall as Carly a giant, I'm not).
The security guard seemed to not believe me when I told him I wanted to change my light bulb. He asked me three times "You change your own??!?!!?" before he finally led me to the closet where the step-ladder was. This leads me to believe that not a lot of white-trash in Singapore lift a finger to do any of their own kinda housework and stuff. But alas, that's also (stereotypically) what I've observed in the past several months.
Even after I returned from the store with lightbulbs in a grocery bag, went up to our apartment, changed it, and came back downstairs with the ladder, he asked me again, "You changed it yourself?".
At any rate, I've manged to change my light bulb, so I can now work late into the night as all geeky folk should.
Pictures of me dressed up as Santa Clause are coming soon, I promise!
December 6th, 2005 - 07:08
Shame on you – now the rest of us will have to start changing our own lightbulbs! Actually, you’re right – people here seem to find it strange that you want to do these things yourself. The idea that you actually like doing a bit of DIY seems to come across as, well … unbelievable.