Recently, my electric cooker finally decided that it had cooked it's last 'Sunday Roast', grilled it's last fillet steak and fried it's final 'full English', so I decided to 'splash out' on a 'latest model' replacement, provided that I could find one that had knobs controls that I could understand, and that it would fit into the narrow space where the ‘deceased’ one now awaited it’s final journey to that ‘great scrapyard in the sky’.
Now I, long ago, gave up visiting those huge retail stores, with their “Mega Deals!” and “Unbeatable Offers!” etc. where “How may I help you ?”, usually meant .. “I hope that this silly old fart doesn’t ask too many questions?” .. like .. “How soon can you deliver and install it? .. and .. “Will you take the old one away?”
So, that afternoon, I ‘phoned the bloke at the little electrical appliances shop in our local high street; and .. Hey Presto ! .. I had a new cooker ‘up and running’ in time for lunch the following day.
The point of this little tale, is that I have found that using a ‘little bloke down the road’ is often the best ‘way to go’ for reliable and friendly service, and he doesn’t try to sell you that “essential” extra insurance cover, keep checking his (or her) smartphone, or expect you to spend your time filling in one of those bloody stupid .. “Tell us what you think” feedback questionnaires.
Unfortunately, this old breed appears to be…
… nearing extinction !
bigjohn 
