I’m sure everyone struggles with organizing all the cables and wires it takes to navigate this modern world. There’s the cable box wire, the wifi wire and the power wire. I have remote screens in my living room. Well it seems the battery inside each screen needs to be charged once a year. Oh and that’s not included in the hefty maintenance fee for these state of the art doodads and requires yet another wire and power chord as well as the knowledge of how to use it which is not included in the manual.
Now there’s six screens that slowly lost their charge at various times. The first to go was screen #2. I wasn’t surprised I wore out the battery in screen #2 as that’s my late night peeping tom window. The W Hotel is across the street and expressions of amour tend to present themselves. Am I ashamed to say I peep? The pair of binoculars perched on my window sill indicates that I am not. So the maintenance guy showed up yesterday, one month after screen #2 conked out.
Note: During the past month all six screens ran out of power at various levels ranging from completely rolled to completely unrolled to any level in between. It was the hot topic of two dinner parties.
His visit lasted two hours and required yet another chord (an extension chord to reach the only unoccupied outlet left on the main floor) to be employed. Well everything got figured out and the maintenance guy left. The screens were being charged for about eight hours. Problem solved?
Of course not.
The charging wire inside screen #1 slipped out and stopped charging which in turn caused all six screens to stop charging. Seems screen #1 is the mothership of the screens, so now all six are completely open and I have to put clothes on to make my morning coffee.
And the peeping tom tables have been turned. The role of peeper is now played by several hundred guests staying at the W Hotel. I’m the peepette. I scheduled another maintenance visit that’ll happen two weeks from now. The final words of the customer service rep were: Please leave all of the wires as is until we assess the problem.
I want to apply a couple of power chords to my temples and short circuit myself.