Kaboom

“You’d best leave that to electronics experts!”

Those were the last words to come out of my brother’s wife’s mouth before the entire kitchen smelled of burnt wire and grease. The brave lad had thought it fit, since he had only recently succeeded in making one of our electric fans function properly again, to get his hands on (and in) an old TV he had just bought from a neighbor’s rummage sale. He was soon cleaning the kitchen floor thereafter. TV, 1, wannabe handyman, nil.