English Wonders- Part 1 (F)

FYI: American Revolutionary war never happened

No English person has ever heard of the American Revolution war. I am stared at in bewilderment and well, to be truly honest, a bit like a lunatic when launching into my story of the Declaration of Independence, red coats, and our guerrilla like tactics which enabled us to earn our independence.

English response, “War? We just gave it to you didn’t we?”

However, defending the British, they do learn in school one major event of American history; the Boston Tea Party. They do not know the significance of the event, but love the idea of a bunch of people running around dressed in Indian costumes dumping tea into the water.

Why English history teachers believe the Boston Tea Party was more important than the American Revolutionary war is a conundrum I have yet to decipher.

2 Faucets

Walk into a bathroom, go up to a sink to turn the water on to wash your hands and you will find yourself staring at 2 separate faucets, one hot, one cold. So what do you do? Place your hands under the ice cold water or the scalding hot one?

My only pathetic attempt is to do the “sweeping cupped hand approach” which is as follows:

Stretch out one hand, place palm up, slightly cupped. Then in one swift and fluid motion glide the hand under the 2 faucets so that you catch both the hot and cold water into one cupped hand. The result: warm water.

Unfortunately this rarely works and you end up either freezing or burning your hand, but this is the best solution I have come up with thus far.