> well) is still common to have two separated taps for the hot and cold
water

When I first lived in Paris it was in a quaint backstreet hotel (now that
I'm older, I'd think of it less as 'quaint' and more as 'almost derelict').
Of
the two taps, only the Cold had its little white ceramic "C". I let the
other
run for a minute. Brrrrr. Freezing. So I go off and try my very best to
complain in fractured French that there's no hot water. Jeez, what a
dump

Le concierge patiently explains C = Chaud, F = Froid

Le guest knew that, didn't I ;-))

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