Risk of scalding

August 11, 2008 – 7:10

The following photo is located at the entrance to the shower in the Holiday-Inn hotel in Walldorf, Germany:

Danger!

For those of you not bothering, the wording says:

Caution: The hot water temerature can rise sharply at times. Risk of scalding!

This is so familiar, yet so annoying. Instead of actually fixing the plumbing, we have a legal disclaimer which says its ok, our asses our covered. Naturally, when the scalding water hit my proverbial ass in the shower, the fact that there was a warning sticker provided me endless comfort.

this is the equivalent of a ‘Beta’ patch in the software world.

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