“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!”
—Matt
Misplaced Mishaps
It is an unspoken pride that we small-town Americans are pretty good at practical and well thought through placement. Placement of things is a big deal. Whether it is putting the stack of plates at the start of a potluck line (not the end) to good companies like Wayne Johnson Homes in Grabill, Indiana who know the ins and outs of placement in drafting up a home.
However, overseas the intuitive ability to place things well doesn’t happen like we small-town Americans think it should. Let me give some examples. In our apartment building’s shared hallways, doorbell buttons are near light button and are the same shape, size and color (meaning you inadvertently ring your neighbors door when you want light). The doorknobs for the front doors of people’s home are not placed at the side that opens away from the hinges, but in the middle of the door. Breaker (fuse) boxes are right inside the front door of the home and often the first thing you see. Light switches for bathrooms are often placed outside the bathroom in the hallway. It is not uncommon to see outlet plugs in the middle of walls with electrical cables crawling up the wall (not the bottom of the wall like in America).
Good placement avoids a lot of mishaps.
Something similar ever happen to you. Contact me and let me hear your story!
mattsmishaps@gmail.com Matt’s Mishaps, PO BOX 114, Grabill, IN 46741
