Sunday, 19 August 2007

Three of a kind

I've had three visits from engineers in the last few days. All three serviced me adequately(!) but all three brought with them just the slightest hint of bizarreness.

The electricity man, who was due to arrive between 8am an 1pm, arrived at 7.30; surely an engineer/delivery man arriving half an hour before their given five-hour window is unprecedented in history.

The phone man didn't even enter my house. He gave me a device to plug into my phone socket, went back to his car and drove off. He returned 15 minutes later and asked for his device back, and the phone was magically working again.

The gas man found a pot of blue paint lying around and rather perplexingly decided to throw it everywhere, mostly all over his shirt. I would've asked him why but I was too busy laughing.

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