Another Thing I Don’t Get About the UK

There are no electric outlets in the bathrooms.

There is no way to plug in a hairdryer or an electric toothbrush.  Or a night light.

I guess I get the logic of it. No electricity around water.  But if that is truly the logic, then why are there outlets in kitchens?  And why can’t they do what they do in the US and put trips into them, so if water and electricity mix, the outlet turns off.

I don’t use a hairdryer or an electric toothbrush (well, I do, but it takes batteries), but a night light would be helpful.

Especially since when you turn on the overhead light in every bathroom I’ve been in the UK the extractor fan turns on also.  Which is very loud in the middle of the night and wakes up the world.

I just don’t get it.

Posted in Belfast, daily, Ex-Pat.

One Comment

  1. I plug my toothbrush in the electric shaver thingy.

    What REALLY gets me here is plumbing. WHY can my bathroom not have a tap that has both hot and cold water, instead of two separate ones. WHY? Plumbing here is 50 years behind and it drives me nuts.

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