Cheap Bastards

For all the funding they receive I would hope the Southland Museum and Art Gallery could invest a little more money in a few 3M removable hooks!

I went to the museum today and was irritated by the cheap and ineffective method of hanging up the headphones.

They have five televisions at the top of the stairs in an all black alcove, because of the darkness I did not see the headphones beneath each screen.  Then my five-year old squealed as something in the darkness went thud.  The wide band headphones had come off their brass L cup hooks (like you buy at Mitre 10).   Even with the hook screwed in traditionally it would only just fit the band but these idiots screwed it in right next to a vertical batten (?) which reduced the hook size to about 15mm.  Hardly enough room to hang a tie let alone hefty hi-fi headphones.  I spent the next five minutes picking up headphones only to hear thud, squeal (as each promptly dropped again and startled a tired belligerent five-year old who was already on edge because she had earlier ‘heard’ the Roaring 40’s sea-lion).

I assume they couldn’t find a dwang and choose to mount the hooks on the stud next to the batten.  Maybe the battens are metal (too busy picking up headphones to find out) so they couldn’t screw into them, buggered if I know (or care).  Splurge out with that ratepayer funding and buy some 3M stick on hooks!  Please!

I must mention the embarrassment I felt over little things like the ineffective hooks, obscure signage and lovely old brass telescope that had what looked like tin foil wrapped around part of it.  Why?  We all know that things haven’t changed much for years but the average tourist would be unaware of that but the tacky shit like headphones and tin foil say something else…cheap bastards