On Mar 16, 12:48 pm, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote:
> Nancy wrote on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:35:33 -0400:
>
> ??>> On Mar 16, 11:23 am, "Nancy Young" >
> wrote:
>
> ??>>> I thought standard was the hot tap was on the left,
> ??>>> assuming you have separate controls. Of course, I'm
> ??>>> speaking of the US.
>
> ??>> Unless you have a dyslexic plumber putting in your piping.
> ??>> At work the hot was on the right and the cold on the left.
> ??>> Now the darkroom has become a copier room so the problem
> ??>> is no more.
>
> NY> Worse, a friend of mine moved into a brand new place and
> NY> the water lines were switched so that the toilet water was
> NY> hot. That's the only plumbing problem she told me about
> NY> that I remembered. Ick.
>
> The choice "hardly ever" was not given in the quiz and it would
> have been appropriate since deviation from left--hot is very
> uncommon but not completely unknown in the US.It often seems
> random in Britain and I have had a few surprises in France when
> I forgot that the label "C" stood for "chaud" (hot).
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> E-mail, with obvious alterations:
> not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not

Have you heard the joke about the bilingual hotel? Both taps have a
"C" : chaud and cold.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada