count the wins
May. 29th, 2023 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatThe number of devices I have that came with a remote compared to the number of remotes I use / know the location of / know which device they match up with is sometimes alarming. (Only sometimes. Most of the time I ignore it.)
HOWEVER! Yesterday was SO HOT and last night was also SO HOT (at least when I went to bed), so I pulled out my fan and set it up. And when I was headed for bed, I thought to myself 'you know what would be great, would be a remote, so I could turn the fan off later without getting out of bed!' And then I thought, 'wait... didn't this fan COME with a remote???'
And there were, perhaps, a few seconds of despair as my brain worked through recalling that yes, there had been a remote, and no, I hadn't seen it recently. But THEN I remembered gently poking fun at the fact that the fan company built in a little remote-holder into the back of the fan itself. When I bought the fan, this seemed like a silly feature -- after all, when the fan is in regular use, why would you want the remote attached to it? That's the opposite of the point of a remote!
So, Honeywell Quietset Tower Fan designers, I apologize, and I thank you for your foresight -- you were right, and I was wrong. Last night when I longed for a remote, there it was! Tucked into the back of the fan like a beacon of welcome convenience. How clever! How helpful!
(Also, yes, it is so great to be able to turn the fan off without getting out of bed.)
HOWEVER! Yesterday was SO HOT and last night was also SO HOT (at least when I went to bed), so I pulled out my fan and set it up. And when I was headed for bed, I thought to myself 'you know what would be great, would be a remote, so I could turn the fan off later without getting out of bed!' And then I thought, 'wait... didn't this fan COME with a remote???'
And there were, perhaps, a few seconds of despair as my brain worked through recalling that yes, there had been a remote, and no, I hadn't seen it recently. But THEN I remembered gently poking fun at the fact that the fan company built in a little remote-holder into the back of the fan itself. When I bought the fan, this seemed like a silly feature -- after all, when the fan is in regular use, why would you want the remote attached to it? That's the opposite of the point of a remote!
So, Honeywell Quietset Tower Fan designers, I apologize, and I thank you for your foresight -- you were right, and I was wrong. Last night when I longed for a remote, there it was! Tucked into the back of the fan like a beacon of welcome convenience. How clever! How helpful!
(Also, yes, it is so great to be able to turn the fan off without getting out of bed.)
