What I like about living in Bangladesh is that many more items than you would expect can be repaired and thus, they live on to see another day rather than the bottom of a rubbish bin. I mistreated a pair of earphones and rather than simply throw them out and replace them, I took them to this shop this morning to ascertain whether they could be saved. For the princely sum of one hundred taka, it seems they could.
The technician cut off the plug, stripped the cord back to the wires and then spent ten minutes welding the fiddly wires back together, before re-attaching the plug. The finishing touch was winding some industrial-strength black tape around the exposed wires. The earphones no longer look so pretty but I am relying upon the stark ugliness of the black tape to remind me to remove them more gently in the future.
And since what they look like doesn't affect the sound in any way, and I don't need to fork out to pay for new earphones, (did I mention this was the second pair I had vandalised in a year?), I was happy.
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