Outlets vs Plug ins

In America, we have outlets.
They look like this:

But sometimes, they look like this:

Sometimes you have to remove a child safety plug because you don't want a baby to stick their finger in the little hole and get electrocuted.That is pretty much the biggest obsticle you have when wanting to get electricity to your lamp, cell phone or appliance.

Here, in the UK, the outlets look like this:

Oh and they're not called outlets, they're called Plug Ins.

Do you see that little switch next to the plug in? that little tiny switch?? That turns the plug on and off like a light. This saves you electricity.

It doesn't save you hassle though.

I cannot tell you how many times I have plugged in my cell phone when it has died or been almost dead only to come back an hour later and discover it is still dead, or now dead because I forgot to turn the plug on!!

It makes me absuloutely furious, and then when my husband turns around and says "How long have you lived here, and you still don't remember to turn the plug in on?" It makes me want to say "How long have we been together and you still thing saying that will make things better?"

Oh and I have lived here TWO years, I lived in America where we didn't have to turn plugs on for TWENTY SEVEN years. That wins. If I'm still forgetting to turn on the plug ins after twenty seven years, then he can say that... the thing is, I very rarely forget. I remember probably 99 percent of the time, its that 1% that drives me insane.

For instance, yesterday, a Wednesday, I am in music lessons all afternoon right up until dinner time, I have no time to cook. So I always make a crock pot dinner on Wednesdays so I make it before my lessons start, and it's ready when my lessons are over... yesterday though when I said goodbye to my last lesson, my husband informs me "By the way, the crock pot has been off all day. You forgot to turn the plug in on."

AAAHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


EXPLICATIVE! EXPLICATIVE! EXPLICATIVE!

I quickly stuck a steak pie in the oven and we ate an hour late.