Time Travel Switch

new switch PKGThe on/off switch on our retro swag light fell apart a few days ago.  It had a good run.  It did a reliable job for 50 years or more, but when the bare wires were showing I crossed my fingers and hoped it was something I could find in a hardware store.  The first two didn’t have one, but the third one did.  When I described the old light switch to a white haired clerk, he looked at me and then he looked at Jenny & I felt like we were time travelers asking for an ancient mechanism… and we were.  The old clerk pulled the new packaged switch from a drawer and said “is this what you’re looking for?” — it was.old switch NEW SWITCHWith the twist of a screwdriver the past came back to life, and no one was shocked in the process.

2 Responses to Time Travel Switch

  1. Thank goodness for the old guys!
    New and improved isn’t always true.
    But then again sometimes it is.

  2. Like it never happened….

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