Inherited stupidity...

Some of the really stupid things prior owners of my house have done:

1. Removed the period features in some - but not all - of the rooms.

It wasn't enough to remove the nice period features, no... this act of idiotic cultural barbarism had to be done in an inconsistent and basically random manner...

2. Putting patterned and textured wallpaper - on the ceiling.

In what universe could that ever make sense? Oh, the 1970s? Well it seems to me the 1970s has some apologising to do... if only for making the 1980s possible...

3. Fitting the kitchen sink so low it blocks the stop tap.

Yep. If you want to turn the water supply to the washing machine off, then you need to take the sink out of the kitchen worktop. Brilliant.

4. Building a fake 'wall' out of relatively flimsy wood in the bathroom. Next to the shower head. Then tiling over it and - one can only assume - hoping the magic water-vapour-fairies* stop the wood ever getting damp.

Idiots.

5. Putting big slabs of asbestos on the shed roof. Correction: on two-thirds of the shed roof...

The inconsistency is what drives me mad! If you're going to put/ leave asbestos on something, why put/ leave it on two-thirds of it?!?!

Any tales of inherited stupidity you care to share?**

Onwards!

Levin

*There's no such thing as magic water-vapour-fairies. Sorry to disappoint.
**You lose points for the answer "The Presidency of George W Bush". Too obvious.