Surprised by the dark

I went into my closet and turned on the light and … no light! I was mystified. I flipped the switch up and down, wondered if the power had failed and looked back into the room to see that the rest of the lights were on, and then I realized that probably the bulb had failed.

I grew up with incandescent bulbs, they failed all the time, I don’t remember it being a surprise or a mystery. Flip switch, no light, oh, bulb burned out. These days, it doesn’t happen very often, and every time I’m weirdly confused that the light isn’t working for some unknown reason!

I climbed up and removed the globe, which very much needed cleaning, and found an old tiny spiral-tube compact fluorescent that must have been in there for a long long time now. I often write the date of installation on bulbs and batteries but didn’t on that one, unfortunately. It’s got an LED now!