The other day, I went into Home Depot. I was looking at LED
bulbs. I’m kinda intrigued by them, honestly. They last about 40 times as long
as a regular light bulb, and take about one eighth as much energy. Pretty cool.
Unfortunately, they normally cost between $20 and $40 dollars.
So when I saw a “40 Watt equivalent” LED bulb for $9.97, I
was intrigued. I thought I’d buy it, and I knew exactly where I was going to
put it. I was going to put it in the lamp in my office. I’d finally get to see what one
of these LED lights was like.
So I bought it and took it home. The next day, I took it out
of the packaging, and went to screw it into the lamp. As I reached in the lamp
to take out the old bulb, I was surprised that it wasn’t very hot. That is,
until I actually got the bulb out and looked at it. Because there, staring me
right in the face, was a bulb identical to the one I had just bought!
Which means, sometime in the last few months, I was at Home Depot.
And I went through the exact same thought processes as I did the other day. And
have absolutely no recollection of
it. This is definitely NOT something that would have happened to me ten years
ago.
There’s a reason why this blog is called GrayShift.
Unfortunately.
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