"That was one hell of a day" was what she said when she got home this evening. At the beginning of a Tale is always my favourite place to start, come with me as I zoom back in time to yesterday afternoon.
She was cursing the replacement grass trimmer as it was behaving badly. She filled it up with half a litre of fuel, fitted a new cutting line and yet, ten minutes later, it said "please miss, can I have more fuel", what was going on?
Then she saw the fuel line was broken and the petrol had emptied itself all over the engine.. nice.. scary.. could have gone "boom" as the engine of this big trimmer gets hot.
The wretched machine had to go back to whence it came, except Battersea Homebase did not have any in stock, so she had to go to the Kensington branch, which is where she bought the first one, which had been faulty.
She and old Wicker, now fully repaired, trundled off down the Cromwell Road, such a lovely day for a fast walk.
Into Homebase and whom should be there loitering with no intent but an old friend of hers who works for Homebase, much smiling, much how are you'ing since you retired went on, etc, etc.
He asked her why she was there, she explained about the faulty fuel line, he said "we can't have that, come with me, I'll sort this out", he took a new one off the shelf and went to the Customer Service desk.
And 'sorted' it out.. by saying "She's a very good and old customer of ours but she is also a Dragon so don't think you can give her the run around or she'll have you for lunch, she knows all about warranties, just let's check the new one out and give it to her".
Oh boy.. did she have to keep a straight face!
The new one was checked out, put together to make sure it fitted correctly, which was the fault with the first one, tool kit checked, the faulty one handed over, the new one plus all its' extra bits handed over and off she went having said a "BIG thank you" to her chum.
"Dragon" she said to him, "yes, I thought you'd like that, it scared him, didn't it?" They both laughed and she went off to catch the 190 bus with old Wicker trundling along beside her.
Oh, happy days are here again! For there ain't nothing that will put a smile on this girl's face like a engine that fires on the first pull! Yippee..
Gloriously sunny, warm day, in slip-on shoes, a sleeveless t.shirt and goggles, vroom, like Toad in Wind in the Willows, she and the trimmer went to work. Up and down the little paths, around the Lilac tree, in and out of the fruit bushes!
'Dragon' she thought to herself and laughed, for she is called this by an old client of hers. He is a client for whom she has worked on several large projects in America and Europe.
He said "I have bought a house in London, please go and look at all of the stuff which I have shipped over and which I have bought at auction, take photos and we'll talk about colours.
She did as he requested and then told him that the power voltage in the UK, which is much higher than in the USA, meant that all of the old wiring had to be changed because IF, God forbid, a fire occurred in the house and it could be traced to old wiring, the Insurance Company would negate his Household Insurance Policy..
TRUE.. all UK wiring has to be double insulated.
He pooh-poohed this and said.. "No, I'll do it when I am in the house", her response to this very old client for whom she had done multiple homes. "Go and find yourself another lamp specialist, I will not work under this condition".
His response.. was simply wonderful!
He went off to a toy store and found a marvellous Dragon. He was about twelve inches tall and made out of the smoothest bottle green velvet, his ears were lined in pink, his fat tongue was made out of pink satin and lined in something so it was squashy, his eyes were made out of black round buttons and he had a spiky mane and tail! He was splendid and very fierce.
And he flew across the Atlantic in a dark brown leather beauty case. Oh Lordy, how she laughed when she opened that case.
On a card tied around his neck was the following.. "Do not mess with Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Ketchup".
(Very sadly, because she adored this Dragon, his stuffing was a kind of small Bean and he was, literally, eaten by horrid Weevils. She still has the beauty case).
Did the two of them solve their differences?
Of course they did, she telephoned the HQ of what used to be Norwich Union and got them to send him all the necessary information on how and what will negate a House Insurance Policy in the case of Fire. Old lamp wiring being one of the main culprits. That scared him and she was back in control of the project within the week!
Her old client called her Dragon from that day forth and still does.
She no longer has to 'bellow fire and brimstone' at stupid people, her life is much simpler now she is retired but oh dear, oh dear, why don't companies check their goods properly before they leave their factories?
FlapFlap Dear Readers, for tomorrow she is off to work at the shop in make-up and pretty clothes!
It is bed time for both of us. MaryLou told us that Pegeen is a grandmother to baby born today. Happy, happy days, we are so happy to hear that your daughter and her daughter are well.
GeeGee Parrot.
April 15th, 2014.
She was cursing the replacement grass trimmer as it was behaving badly. She filled it up with half a litre of fuel, fitted a new cutting line and yet, ten minutes later, it said "please miss, can I have more fuel", what was going on?
Then she saw the fuel line was broken and the petrol had emptied itself all over the engine.. nice.. scary.. could have gone "boom" as the engine of this big trimmer gets hot.
The wretched machine had to go back to whence it came, except Battersea Homebase did not have any in stock, so she had to go to the Kensington branch, which is where she bought the first one, which had been faulty.
She and old Wicker, now fully repaired, trundled off down the Cromwell Road, such a lovely day for a fast walk.
Into Homebase and whom should be there loitering with no intent but an old friend of hers who works for Homebase, much smiling, much how are you'ing since you retired went on, etc, etc.
He asked her why she was there, she explained about the faulty fuel line, he said "we can't have that, come with me, I'll sort this out", he took a new one off the shelf and went to the Customer Service desk.
And 'sorted' it out.. by saying "She's a very good and old customer of ours but she is also a Dragon so don't think you can give her the run around or she'll have you for lunch, she knows all about warranties, just let's check the new one out and give it to her".
Oh boy.. did she have to keep a straight face!
The new one was checked out, put together to make sure it fitted correctly, which was the fault with the first one, tool kit checked, the faulty one handed over, the new one plus all its' extra bits handed over and off she went having said a "BIG thank you" to her chum.
"Dragon" she said to him, "yes, I thought you'd like that, it scared him, didn't it?" They both laughed and she went off to catch the 190 bus with old Wicker trundling along beside her.
Oh, happy days are here again! For there ain't nothing that will put a smile on this girl's face like a engine that fires on the first pull! Yippee..
Gloriously sunny, warm day, in slip-on shoes, a sleeveless t.shirt and goggles, vroom, like Toad in Wind in the Willows, she and the trimmer went to work. Up and down the little paths, around the Lilac tree, in and out of the fruit bushes!
'Dragon' she thought to herself and laughed, for she is called this by an old client of hers. He is a client for whom she has worked on several large projects in America and Europe.
He said "I have bought a house in London, please go and look at all of the stuff which I have shipped over and which I have bought at auction, take photos and we'll talk about colours.
She did as he requested and then told him that the power voltage in the UK, which is much higher than in the USA, meant that all of the old wiring had to be changed because IF, God forbid, a fire occurred in the house and it could be traced to old wiring, the Insurance Company would negate his Household Insurance Policy..
TRUE.. all UK wiring has to be double insulated.
He pooh-poohed this and said.. "No, I'll do it when I am in the house", her response to this very old client for whom she had done multiple homes. "Go and find yourself another lamp specialist, I will not work under this condition".
His response.. was simply wonderful!
He went off to a toy store and found a marvellous Dragon. He was about twelve inches tall and made out of the smoothest bottle green velvet, his ears were lined in pink, his fat tongue was made out of pink satin and lined in something so it was squashy, his eyes were made out of black round buttons and he had a spiky mane and tail! He was splendid and very fierce.
And he flew across the Atlantic in a dark brown leather beauty case. Oh Lordy, how she laughed when she opened that case.
On a card tied around his neck was the following.. "Do not mess with Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Ketchup".
(Very sadly, because she adored this Dragon, his stuffing was a kind of small Bean and he was, literally, eaten by horrid Weevils. She still has the beauty case).
Did the two of them solve their differences?
Of course they did, she telephoned the HQ of what used to be Norwich Union and got them to send him all the necessary information on how and what will negate a House Insurance Policy in the case of Fire. Old lamp wiring being one of the main culprits. That scared him and she was back in control of the project within the week!
Her old client called her Dragon from that day forth and still does.
She no longer has to 'bellow fire and brimstone' at stupid people, her life is much simpler now she is retired but oh dear, oh dear, why don't companies check their goods properly before they leave their factories?
FlapFlap Dear Readers, for tomorrow she is off to work at the shop in make-up and pretty clothes!
It is bed time for both of us. MaryLou told us that Pegeen is a grandmother to baby born today. Happy, happy days, we are so happy to hear that your daughter and her daughter are well.
GeeGee Parrot.
April 15th, 2014.
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