I am staying with my parents for Christmas, which has been, as always, fantastic. They live in the country with many of the home quirks that come with being out of the city. So, for example, you can only get reception if you leave your phone on the back of the sofa in the lounge or on the window ledge in my room. There is also quite low pressure in the water pipes in the bathroom.
The water pressure requires you to run a bath on full hot for 25 mins - the hot water comes out just below boiling, so there's no putting your hand in to test the temperature. The cold water comes out super cooled at a temperature of about 4 K, so you have to micropipette 0.25ml into the bath. If your hand slips you are left with a bath that will kill you after 30 seconds of submersion.
Despite 2 years of chemistry practicals at uni I have yet to have a warm bath this Christmas. It's particularly gutting when I watch my parents wander off, leaving their bath running with careless abandon, come back, adjust the taps with the precision of micro-biologist and jump in a perfect temperature bath.
How? How do they do it?
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