To: reaganaut1
My parents installed a pull chain valve with a spring loaded return on our shower. Pull for a minute. Soap up pull again to rinse. The shower could only last until you got a cramp in your hand.
We eventually figured a way to wedge the pivot and keep it flowing. They announced our being discovered by shutting off the hot water valve mid stolen shower, going to full cold water. So we stopped that.
My parents also responded to high phone bills by putting one of those locks on the rotary dial phones we had in the house. I figured how to cheat that device too, but never shared it with my siblings.
4 posted on
04/02/2015 10:51:36 AM PDT by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: blackdog
Tap the number out on the receiver buttons ... works every time
21 posted on
04/02/2015 11:05:29 AM PDT by
clamper1797
(I'm a Tea Party Conservative ... in my opinion that makes me "Politically Correct")
To: blackdog
I figured how to cheat that device too, but never shared it with my siblings. I know you could dial a rotary dial phone by quickly pressing and releasing the "hang-up" button(s). One quick "click" of the button dialed a 1, two "clicks" in quick succession dialed a 2, etc.
That's how we did it. Did you devise another way?
23 posted on
04/02/2015 11:05:37 AM PDT by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: blackdog
Let me guess. Mom and Dad got jobs at the EPA and FCC respectively so they could enhance the lives of others as well.
24 posted on
04/02/2015 11:05:53 AM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
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