My grandparents had an authentic Bergholt Stuttley Johnson weighing machine in the bathroom. It was a metal pedestal about six inches high and not quite wide enough for two adult feet to stand on comfortably. The dial was set into one of the vertical sides, in reverse writing, behind a flap that was hinged at the bottom and mirrored inside. To weigh yourself you had to perch on top, then squint through your toes at the reflected image of the dial. Then you jumped off quickly before gravity took over and you fell and snapped an ankle.
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Date: 2009-01-20 09:55 am (UTC)Your mum's spring-pointer still wins.