My
brothers were recently in Biarritz – the first time we were all together since
2009. I very much look forward to seeing them for obvious reasons. There is one
less obvious reason why their presence is more than welcome – they are both Gods of Gadgets
and all things electrical. I have a rather pronounced deficiency in this field
and I regularly find myself saying, “it’s OK, the boys will be here in 8, 12, ‘n’
months, I can live with not being able to use gadget X or remote control Y
until they come”. This time my main focus was my new sound system in the house
which spans the living room, bathroom, patio and bedroom. Shortly after arrival,
I whisked them up to house to explain my three problems. Kieran kindly
explained to me in a way that I think even Gaston might have understood, that one of the problems really was an
end user issue. However the other two stumbling blocks seemed to perplex them
somewhat – it just didn’t make sense, and unfortunately I couldn’t enlighten them
with an electrics plan. I was sort of surprised, disappointed and bizarrely even a little bit proud that I’d managed to find a gadget related problem they couldn’t
solve within a few minutes. We trundled back to Mum and Dad’s with Kieran saying
the whole thing didn’t make sense and pondering over the fact that there was an
odd wire poking out from my brand new installation. With my sound system still
not working in two of the four locations I resolved to ring the shop and ask
them to come when Kieran and Christian were still on holiday. As soon as I rang
the shop and introduced myself, my friendly Gallic sound system salesman Jean-Claude
said breezily, “I was wondering when you were going to call, we’ve got your
additional amplifiers in the shop, when do you want us to come and install them...”.
I won’t write exactly what the gadget brothers said to me, but safe to say that
this all happened just before I decided to “take an alternative route by the
sea” on a recent cycling trip on the way back from San Sebastian…
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