By Doug Spade and Mike Clement
You can’t believe a thing anyone says anymore. Ditto for what you buy at the store. Take light bulbs, for example. A couple years back, we stocked up on a lifetime supply of those LED jobbies. With each one guaranteed to last darn near a quarter century — it said so right on the box — we figured we’d be doing wheelchair drag races at the nursing home long before ever having to change them. Naturally, they all burned out last week.
Every blinkin’ one.
Turns out we’d overlooked the fine print that explained the 22-year life expectancy was based on only 3 hours usage per day. Three hours! What’d they think we were? Blind or something? That got us so upset we did what everybody does when the room is suddenly plunged into darkness during the middle of an unexpected snowstorm.