2 reasons not to buy a lottery ticket today, I think I've exceeded my quota;
1/ I was using a saucepan to cook my tin of soup for lunch. Half way through heating i moved the handle to stir the pot. i realised the handle was loose and thought I should tighten that after eating the soup. i moved the handle again and it was very loose, so i went and got a screwdriver to tighten it up while still on the stove.
Just touched the screw with the driver and the screw head came off, along with the handle. Had to carefully get another pan and transfer the soup.
After lunch i investigated. These pans are 10 years old, but are a good make (judge). The pan is stainless as is the screws. Would you believe they had an iron spring washer under the head? The iron had rotted the stainless all the way through.
If the missus had used that pan she would be unlikely to have noticed it was loose untill she picked it up and would have been covered with hot liquid. I replaced the stainless screw and removed the other iron washers (set of 4 pans).
2/ Walking around a super home center store (like a B&Q type before they got stupid big). Found some little brass knobs for a box I am making. No price on the drawer they are in. I said to The missus that would be trouble. Got to the checkout, they did not scan. After 5 tries she phoned a friend. No luck. She tried to type the number in, it came up as place mats. She walked off to speak to customer service to ask the audience. uh uh. She found the floor manager and he tried everything she had, then studied the packets intently for several minutes, hoping for a message from god.
I eventually walked over to the guy. All the knobs on the shelves were around 2 to 3 euro each, so i decided to make an offer under petty cash rules as I really wanted these particular shapes.
I said to him, "I want 5, i will give you 10 euro for the lot". he looked up with relief on his face and said "too much" and charged me 5.
result.
But it then took two more supervisors to amend the till so the girl (and I use the term loosely) could finally ring them up.
1/ I was using a saucepan to cook my tin of soup for lunch. Half way through heating i moved the handle to stir the pot. i realised the handle was loose and thought I should tighten that after eating the soup. i moved the handle again and it was very loose, so i went and got a screwdriver to tighten it up while still on the stove.
Just touched the screw with the driver and the screw head came off, along with the handle. Had to carefully get another pan and transfer the soup.
After lunch i investigated. These pans are 10 years old, but are a good make (judge). The pan is stainless as is the screws. Would you believe they had an iron spring washer under the head? The iron had rotted the stainless all the way through.
If the missus had used that pan she would be unlikely to have noticed it was loose untill she picked it up and would have been covered with hot liquid. I replaced the stainless screw and removed the other iron washers (set of 4 pans).
2/ Walking around a super home center store (like a B&Q type before they got stupid big). Found some little brass knobs for a box I am making. No price on the drawer they are in. I said to The missus that would be trouble. Got to the checkout, they did not scan. After 5 tries she phoned a friend. No luck. She tried to type the number in, it came up as place mats. She walked off to speak to customer service to ask the audience. uh uh. She found the floor manager and he tried everything she had, then studied the packets intently for several minutes, hoping for a message from god.
I eventually walked over to the guy. All the knobs on the shelves were around 2 to 3 euro each, so i decided to make an offer under petty cash rules as I really wanted these particular shapes.
I said to him, "I want 5, i will give you 10 euro for the lot". he looked up with relief on his face and said "too much" and charged me 5.
result.
But it then took two more supervisors to amend the till so the girl (and I use the term loosely) could finally ring them up.
