EQUIPMENT USED: Edd's alarm clock
Dribbling tap
Bath
Camera
Laptop
CONDITIONS: The water pressure has been set to
minimum.
Tap-dribbling volume prone to slowing down,
due to toilet flushing, hand washing, dishwashering
and washing machining.
The weather is slightly crap and English,
but this won't affect the experiment, unless
it starts raining in the bathroom.
People kept trying to unplug the bath,
ruining my carefully crafted experiment.
The bath is lovely and clean and shiny,
thanks to Mr Flash.
THE EXPERIMENT:
TIME:
18:00
The tap-test starts. Limitations with
little camera in combination with the
Auto-levels option in Photoshop create
strange, yellow blobs on pictures that
look ever-so-slightly like wee-stains.
They are not wee-stains, the bath is,
in fact, lovely and white and shiny
(apart from that limescale stain that
last week reminded me of Norway)
TIME:
18:05
Five minutes later, the bath is filling
up nicely, though the picture of the
clock came out badly. I realise that
I can not take pictures of this incredibly
exciting event every five minutes, so
I find something to distract myself.
TIME:
18:45
I successfully manage to distract myself
for half an hour by trying to eradicate
the funny yellow blobs on the photos.
I halfway succeed. Meanwhile, the bath
continues to fill up nicely, and is
about a third of the way there.
TIME:
19:45
Even though the washing machine has
kicked in by now, the bath is still
filling up at an unacceptable rate.
I've also managed to distract myself
so well that I completely forgot about
the bath-filling excercise. Luckily,
a furry child came in to ask me if he
could unplug the bath. NOOOOOOOO!!
TIME:
20:45
Oh, its sooo nearly there. I estimate
another five minutes before it is done.
TIME:
20:51
Hurray! Not five minutes later, but
six minutes later, the experiment is
complete. The dribbling tap has managed
to fill the bath up in two hours and
51 minutes.
FINALLY
We can't send him up chimneys or down
to the coal mine, but we can get some
work out of the furry one. See how he
is perfectly willing to plunge his entire
arm into a tub filled with cold water,
but is completely unwilling to eat vegetables,
look at clowns or tidy his bedroom.
Strange lad.
TAP-O-METER
OI! STOP IT!