Sunday, June 29, 2008

Iron Problem in La Chaux-de-Fonds


La Chaux-de-Fonds is 100 miles from Zeurich and it took us a full 3 hour train ride to reach here. The whole country is prettier than I expected..so I am going to have a section called 12 Swiss days where I would share my blurbs.

I have been awake for 2 hours now and it is 6:00a.m. Spanish fans shouted all night. Finally, a team that promises so much every year came through....if back in US, you want to compare Spain, then you would have to think of Duke in college hoops in past years....very strong in the early rounds and knocked out in the all important Round of 16 or 8. It doesn't happen this time and the singing went on till around an hour back!! After all, this is the first major win in last 44 years for a country which hosts one of the most competitive football leagues around the world and has had its fair share of superstars.

So I get up at 4:00a.m. and I don't feel any effects of the journey but I quickly figure out that there is one problem. There is no iron and there is no one at the reception. I am wondering if I know something that someone did at some point of time
...a guy on Shanghai trip(KC Blake was his name!!)...this was his solution:

Find the least wrinkled clothes out of the bunch you have, turn on the hot shower and let the bathroom have a lot of mist and hang your clothes in that mist for 10 minutes...take them out and quickly wife them off!!!

Voila...it works and I get a day to fix this problem...after all, business school did have something useful to offer!!!

1 comment:

Uday Idnani said...

Nice! You know I am going to be trying that on at least one trip!