The Art of the Fart

Creating a smell

Is all very well

But there is an art

To the fart

When alone

You’ll squeeze a tone

From daybreak to well past noon

But when an Audience is there

You do not dare

So hold it you will

Till your colon doth fill

Only then can you play a whole tune

Taken from the ebook of the same name

How Not to Sell - Part One

Retailer: Jewsons Kitchen and Bathroom Centre.

The conversation literally started in this manner.

Me: I'm looking for a corner toilet.
Salesman: you don't want one of them they're rubbish.
Me: Why?
Salesman: They don't save any space to know.

Already I was thinking what a twat. This is not a good start and this 'salesman' made me feel annoyed and patronised at the same time. When I politely explained the constraining space considerations and that this was the best solution to where I needed a downstairs sanitary room built, he had to concede, that from a practical design point of view, this was the best solution.

However, he was still incredibly negative about the the whole idea mentioned on three more occasions that he hated corner toilets. He offered two choices but said categorically not to buy one manufacturer as it was incredibly expensive and not worth the money. That left me a choice of one.

Where this vitriol against a design concept came from my do not know or do not care.

I left the premises and went online and found exactly what I wanted, at half the price and delivered directly to my door.

Jewsons did not only lose a one-off sale but also the opportunity of selling me all the other bits I needed his particular project.

Thank God the Internet

Going Around in Circles

I was kicking back and watching a repeat episode of MythBusters where Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were experimenting swimming, walking and driving while blindfolded. 

In all these experiments they discovered that, without visual clues, they continually went round in circles almost ending back at the same spot they started.

At the end of this particular feature, Adam and Jamie discussed the results but could not determine any reason why this happens.

I do not have a definitive answer but it got me thinking. I wonder if we have a predilection for this from a time we are very young, particularly at the early crawling stages?

Could we have this tendency as an inherent internal safety feature to make sure that we do not stray too far from an original spot so that we can be found easily by adults if we get lost? 

Just a thought.