Re: Humour in the TV trade.
Yes - being innocent engineers we couldn't work out why some machines (which were then very expensive) were virtually destroyed when the owner "got the tape out". The penny did drop eventually, though...
I remember doing a TV repair in the owner's son's bedroom, and I was playing a tape of his to check it as there was only a poor aerial. From the back of the set I asked if the picture was OK, only to be met with a stunned silence from the mother. "So THAT'S what he gets up to in his room!" she said as I struggled to find the stop button.
Another very large couple wanted their video recorder repaired - one of those "portables" that came with a camera. He asked (well, begged) me very sincerely not to watch the tape. Looking at the pair of them, I decided I would obey his request as it might have scarred me for life....
Glyn
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