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Old 10th Feb 2018, 3:14 pm   #105
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Default Re: Having a laugh?

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"I've repaired your set sir. An open circuit resistor has been replaced. That'll be £10."

"But resistors only cost 3 pence. I have a soldering iron. I could have done the job myself."

"Why didn't you then?"

"I needed someone to tell me which resistor to change and what I should buy."

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... and haven't we all had that, or a response that infers that mindset !

It's why as a matter of policy, I never disclose in detail what I've done to repair stuff (when I'm in commercial mode)


I wonder if they extend the same logic to surgeons, whose only cost (in their eyes) would be a length of catgut ?
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