Is it just Me?

[Billhook]

Stayed in a hotel last night and had a bath.  The control identification for hot and cold were non existent and the direction for shower or bath the same.  So I managed to have scalding hot water on my scalp instead of nice warm water in the bath.

Venturing to the basin to clean my teeth there are no symbols on the single lever tap to identify hot and cold.  You are meant to assume I suppose that all hot water is on the right side or right tap, but I stayed in Italy where it was the other way round.

I see this everywhere now and in some places they have a red and blue dot.  So you my turn the tap to the right in the direction of the red dot but now right in front of you is the blue dot and the red one out of vision to the side.  You might think it is obvious to feel the water but in some hotels it takes ages for the hot to come through.

It really is not too difficult surely to put a static line on the tap stem and a red or blue dot that lines up with the line when you move the lever.  I have such a tap on my shower here at home.

You would have thought with 'Elf an Safety everywhere this might be a priority.

Rant over (I think!)

[eggsarascal]

The rigours and torment of life I'm afraid.

[matelot]

I have to admit I sometimes struggle getting into a strange car and switching on the radio.... 

[spudulike]

Better rename this thread "Grumpy Old Men"......what a life when hot taps bear a warning that the water may be HOT

[Billhook]

6 hours ago, spudulike said:

Better rename this thread "Grumpy Old Men"......what a life when hot taps bear a warning that the water may be HOT

Yep, that's me!

So grumpy that I took this photo

Go figure!

No on/off, no red symbol and other markings so small that I could not read them without my glasses which of course I was not wearing

[Rough Hewn]

First world problem.
[emoji12]

[Mark J]

When faced with this situation, I'd probably just get some dry shampoo and not risk the uncertainty of hot or cold water.

[Gary Prentice]

Wimp! Where's your sense of adventure? The excitement of not knowing what's coming, brain freeze or scalded scalp...

[Wonky]

Love gary’s post, me thinks...(and reminded) I’m tied up in the shower what’s on the menu,,hot or cold and if hits the bits .... then the blast hits you,  shock or....pain

 

i lived in a sudent house where someone else turning on the hot or cold gave you the opposite .....a kind of russsian roulette, if it it the right part and temp  then it could end in pain or shock cold or hot.......I had a few, cold shocks. And hot. Neither were fun.. still soaped up and neeedin a rinse,,

[Billhook]

Look, you lot may be into Miss Whiplash and Arbdungeon pain, but I have enough of that in a day's work!

All I ask for at the end of the day is a lovely relaxing soak in a Radox bath with another chapter of a book to read.

I do not need more pain!