>>BTW, i presume you mean the ones that take a wee while to actually come on, and that don't yield all their light straight away - a bit dim but then, imperceptibly get up to their working brightness.
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>A friend of mine installed only those, such as were available, in his toilet back in 1991. They took 2-3 seconds to come up. The tiles were brown and the porcelain was caramel color, so you couldn't really aim under the bits of street light that may sneak in... at some crucial moments it was almost a proof of the relativity of time. Those two seconds must have stretched significantly.
How about when the drawstring on your PJs catches on knot in the bow or fray (another word for your ambiguities BTW), 1st thing in the morning. That time fumbling REALLY stretches out! :-)
Anyway, serves him right for his colour scheme.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
