“Do you know how to change these?”, my eldest son asked, working with a plug in air freshener.
“I’ve never done one before, but I’ll take a look”, I answered. I’m a Mechanical Engineer, how hard could it be?
We tried and tried to screw the glass perfume vial into the plug in unit, the old one worked, but the new one wouldn’t. To test the cause of the problem, we tried screwing the cap back on both the new and old vials – neither of which worked either. “This cap was on when you got it, right?”, I asked. “Yep.”, he answered. Hmmm.
Sticky fingered and defeated, I finally gave up.
“Oh!”, he calls from the other room, several minutes later, “It’s ‘lefty-tighty’!”
Why would they do that? Is there some kind of safety reason for the reverse threading?
Must be, because everything I’ve touched since still smells like pumpkin spice.
