Knowing my dear readers as I do, I'm sure you fondly remember the '60s. There were modern gadgets aplenty, and all sorts of things working with push-button ease. Why, I even had a fine Dodge Dart with push button gears. Remember those? I still don't get why they never took hold.
But, I digress. My grandfather's avocation was electricity - he took great pride in wiring the main cottage in Maine for electricity back when Central Maine Power was GIVING IT AWAY FREE to encourage people to trade up from kerosene lanterns to that newfangled electricity thing.
But, racing forward back to the '60s: he installs a new circuit breaker box in the cottage that has PUSH BUTTON BREAKERS. Whoa! Très moderne, no? Wave of the future, no?
Apparently no - when our "moderne" electrician took a look at it this year, he said "gee, I've never seen one of THESE before - it's gotta go."
What is it with push buttons?
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