I needed to get back into my mine to flick the master switch and restore the power to my house. Luckily I had my AdheSiPass ready and was able to print myself an official ticket for the mine tour.
Excellent.
I walked confidently to the front entrance, presented my ticket and scanned it.
BOOP
The doors slid open.
I was back in business.
I rushed straight to the switches to find the one that controlled the power to my house. I was steps away from them when I suddenly felt my leg tug on a piece of string…
TWANG
…and a giant bath tub which had been suspended from the ceiling tipped over pouring water all over me.
I was completely soaked.
I have to admit...
...I was also slightly impressed.
It was an elegantly simple trap.
Unfortunately, being completely drenched meant I couldn't safely touch the electrical controls without running a fairly significant risk of electrocuting myself.
Luckily Dennis, my trusty pet gerbil, had travelled in one of my pockets and remained perfectly dry.
He scampered out...
...ran across the control panel...
...and flicked the master switch.
The lights in my house immediately sprang back to life.
What a gerbil.
Everything was back on track…
…except for one thing…
but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Something about the situation where George had accidentally bought my mine from me, and accidentally turned off the power to my house, and had accidentally booby trapped the mine to make it very dangerous to turn the switch back on seemed to suggest something… but I couldn’t quite work out what it was.
I went back to my house and realised I needed to do two things at once… I needed to dry my clothes, and I needed to learn a lot of new things about people so I could figure out what all of George’s actions might mean.
For you trying to do both of these things at the same time would probably make you so confused that you start trying to cut your hair with a dandelion.
But not me, because I have DryLearn.
What is DryLearn?
DryLearn is a revolutionary combination tumble dryer and educational podcast system.
The easiest way to think of it is this:
Take WashRead.
Mix it with DryWash.
Remove the washing.
Remove the reading.
Add podcasts.
Simple.
I changed temporarily into my pyjamas and put my clothes into the DryLearn. I then fired it up and started listening to the automatically recommended educational podcast. It had picked one on the topic of “Most treacherous cheats of the 20th century”… boring… I flipped it over to one about “Really cool recent inventions”… much better.
The DryLearn is very good, but some might suggest it shouldn’t just let you learn only about things that are very boring, and that’s why I added that extra part to over-ride the selection.
With that feature added, and the amount of clothes you presumably need to dry you should get one… Today!
Note to self: What would it mean if some of the accidental things that had been happening recently… weren’t accidental?
