Dodging a bullet today! (PAH)

Dave Yates (PAH)

I'm suing you for my soot-filled house!

Say what?

You heard me. You bums have the service contract on my boiler and installed it several years ago - don't act like you don't know who I am. You sent a service guy here a few days ago.

OK, Who are you?

Here, you talk to him (handing phone off to the daughter), he's playing dumb. (I was tempted to say I wasn't playing, but humor had left the building!) You sons of b*&^%!# were just out to service this piece of junk you installed and it's filling our house with soot. If you're not back here in less than an hour, I'm calling our lawyer.

Well, first of all - I have no clue who you are. (Interrupting and now screaming loudly: You jerks installed our boiler! How the hell can't you know who we are - you were here a few days ago to "service" the boiler & screwed it up. Get the hell over here - NOW!) OK, here's the drill - unless you tell me who you are AND quit cursing and yelling at me, I'll hang up.

Mom in the background: Maybe we called the wrong guy. Ask him if he's with &^* company.

Nope (a big sigh of relief), not us. Now - who are you?

Once she told me, I remembered the installation. 1700's stone farm house with white plastered walls, wide plank flooring with gaps that let you see into the basement & window sills two feet deep leading to hand-made glass. A stunning house & as she spoke, I could see it in my mind's eye. Now filling with soot - as we spoke.

I recalled a kill switch at the cellar steps and the daughter went there, or I should say - attempted to go there, but was driven back by the choking soot and fumes. OK, open the doors & windows and get mom outside - NOW! She insisted on going back in & nothing I said about CO made it past her eardrum. With a wet rag over her mouth & nose, cell phone to one ear, she did manage to flip the switch.

Sweet as syrup now, she was apologetic for yelling at me. My ulcers, meanwhile, were beyond flaring up - they were having a blast.

God help the oil service co that's been doing her annual service. The two of them are loaded for bear and it's bear-hunting season where they live(G). Following our installation, they thought our annual service contract was too expensive (I reminded her of that factoid) and that was the end of that - until today. Then she asked if we'd want to take them on and do their service work. She could finally see the value of having the work done properly instead of falling for the $29.95 annual tune up special that now resulted in six years of accumulated soot that only a soot-saw would touch. I could already hear the screaming a four to six hour soot-pan-dectomy and certified electronic combustion analysis would bring to my already ringing ear!

No thanks. We're booked solid.

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Tom R.

Glad to hear it

You must be living a clean life.

Christian Egli_2

Ohh, classy

So, her charm did not work on you? And they say you can tell when someone smiles even though you don't see them on the other end of the phone line.

It's good to be so perceptive.

Is there something you can sue her for?

Robert O'Connor_8

> So, her charm did not work on you? And they say

> you can tell when someone smiles even though you

> don't see them on the other end of the phone

> line.

>

> It's good to be so perceptive.

>

> Is

> there something you can sue her for?

ScottMP

Dave

Thats classic " Maybe thats not the guy .. ". LOLOLOLOLOL

Sorry you had to go thru the spincter tighting excerise, but its a great story.

Scott

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