[guide.chat] toilet seats
- From: "Kevin Burgin" <kevin.burgin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:38:17 +0100
Some people are right balmpots aren't they?
I'll tell you a true story.
Years ago my father was a self-employed plumber but now he is retired.
One of the funny stories he likes to tell is about a woman who phoned his
company about six months after he started the company. She explained that she
lived in a council house and the toilet seat that was on her toilet she found
uncomfortable and she did not like it and the council refused to replace it
just because she found it uncomfortable. So my dad went and bought a new
toilet seat and installed it for her. He only charged her a minimal amount for
time and the price of the seat.
A couple of days later she phoned back to thank him and said she found it
comfortable.
About six months later she phoned again and said she was moving to another
council house and would he go and take out the toilet seat that she liked and
put it on the toilet of the house she was moving too.
And so for the next seven years the same thing would happen. She would phone
up to say she was moving to a new council house and asked him to take the
toilet seat to the new house And this would happen every six months.
And then one day we heard from her for the last time. She phoned to say she
was moving again. So my dad went on the day and time agreed, he removed the
toilet seat and put back on to the toilet the original seat.
He then took the toilet seat that she so liked to her and said, "Well, if you
would just give me the new address I'll go and put it in for you."
She said, "Not this time,duck. Just give it me and I'll put it in my luggage."
My dad said, "Its no trouble love."
She said, "No, I don't think you understand. I am moving to Australia."
We haven't heard from her since and my dad never told her that they use
different measurements and plumbing fittings in Australia so it wouldn't fit.
So she took it through customs and thousands of miles at great expense just for
it to be thrown away when she arrived in Australia.
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