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Letter: Men and fridges

Published 21 July 2001

From John Davies

Recent correspondence has explored ways, some high-tech, some just ingenious,
to tell if the light in the fridge goes out when you shut the door
(16 June, p 55).
I mentioned this to my wife and daughter, one a nurse and the other a
trainee physician: they burst out laughing.

“It’s easy to tell,” they said. “You put out your finger and press the switch
inside the fridge door frame.” I had to admit to them that almost all the
correspondents had been male.

Lancaster

Issue no. 2300 published 21 July 2001

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