Crisis situations emerge unawares in daily life exposing our unpreparedness for salvaging the property or materials suffering damage and destruction. Succumbing to a feeling of shock and helplessness, solely because of lacking in ability to overcome the crisis, only increases the sense of misery. Examples of householders throwing up their hands on such occasions come in a long list. One cannot miss the anguish knocking down the home-maker at the break of dawn when the domestic help plays truant even after a seemingly long wait of a few minutes from her ETA (Expected Time of Arrival), what with the kitchenware lying unwashed, floors remaining unswept, clothes heading for laundry and so on. Next comes the gas stove that plays spoil-sport by not lighting up. Either the tap going dry or refusing to leak non-stop makes a demand on the head of the family to be smart enough and redeem himself from embarrassment, as he hunts for a plumber. Door-lock, telephone, television, geyser in the bathroom, the family’s automobile and kitchen machine take their turn in testing the skills, or more often lack of skill, of the householders as they give the slip.
Thanks to the total dependence of urbanites in particular on all sorts of devices in daily use, gifted by their unknown inventors, living is marked by comfort, not to forget laziness, that the rustics have not yet emulated the urbanites, thus not hit by crisis situations mentioned above.
