It's a constant frustration when I go into someone's kitchen that they obviously spent thousands on, and I see a hob with up/down buttons, or a stylish but absurdly unusable sink faucet.
Faucets? You said FAUCETS? As a hotel hopper (in recess) I should have run a blog of crazy shower faucet designs, and I definitely wouldn't have run out of puzzling examples and nasty (cold or hot) surprises.
I swear every single hotel in the world is in a competition to make the most complicated, impossible to understand faucet. I'm sure if you understand how it works it somehow is more convenient (saves your temperature setting, perhaps) but it often takes me a few minutes to figure out how to get it to work.
One even had a "button" that you had to press to "unlock" the dial so you could turn it on, that one almost required a call to the desk.
In one hotel, I was stuck with cool showers, which were doable but rather unpleasant. On the last day, I discovered that the temp knob could be depressed which enabled it to be turned to hot. Ahh, finally, a hot shower!
I have a house here in London where in the kitchen the cold tap is on the left side and hot on the right side while in the bath rooms it is hot water on the right side and hot on the left side of the mixer tap. Seriously I have no idea why the developer thought this was a good idea.
At least once a week I get surprised by the hot water when washing my hands :)
