Phil Pascoe
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Painting the back of the bungalow, we decided the outdoor light needed replacing. Trying desperately at the moment to get rid of some debts and not to spend money, I remembered I had a Post office gift card in my wallet that swmbo had been given a while ago, so I look up where it can be spent. Amazon! Yes, Amazon. I look at about thirty pages out of something like 56,000 and lose the will to live. As I look to see where it can spent, I see a letter sent to the Telegraph complaining that the guy's card had been debited 90p a month for non use so I decide to check that out. Sure enough, after eighteen months they debit it 90p a month. I look at mine and it has £46+ on it ... I go to the P.O. site to check the validity and balance - £31. Hell, this needs using. We're going out ... past B&Poo ... that'll do, can't be arrsed.
We go and look at the lights. There's some stuff on a clearance sale, I see one that was quite nice for a fiver - that'll do I say to swmbo, it's a fiver, if it fails after two or three years, for a fiver I don't care. Nice, she says, are you sure it's a fiver? Well there are ten of them there and the ticket under them says a fiver, the one to the left says a fiver, the one to the right says a fiver, so I think we can assume it's a fiver. Job done - great. Before we go, I decide it would be an idea to get rid of this card, or it will keep losing money - just get some cleaning stuff or batteries or anything we use anyway just to use the card up. I get a set of imperial hex keys that I needed anyway, and use the rest on batteries and a few light bulbs.
We jump in the car. What a bummer, she says, the card was declined so I had to pay cash for a load of stuff we didn't really need. Not the end of the world, the money wasn't spent on anything extravagant.
We get home and unpack. We start to paint. We're using Dulux oil based Weathersheild - wonderful stuff. This like bloody water, swmbo says. She's a good decorator. I start ... yes, it's like water. :roll: There is absolutely no sediment in the can, it took me an age with a flat bottomed stick and a hook on my drill stirring it. I can't take it back as it 's twelve months old and I haven't the receipt.
We stop for tea and look at the receipt. Guess what? The bloody light was £28! I just cannot be bothered to go back to complain, just to be told I should have checked before purchasing - the worst thing being they've caught me like it before.
The only good thing was i was iffing and umming between two sets of keys with £2 between them. I only needed them for one job, but I could do without rubber hex keys. I go for the JCB folding set for the extra £2 - at least I won't lose keys. Looking at them I see they are S2 steel - this a new one to me. An advertising gimmick? No, it turns out to be the best steel alloy for hex keys.
We go and look at the lights. There's some stuff on a clearance sale, I see one that was quite nice for a fiver - that'll do I say to swmbo, it's a fiver, if it fails after two or three years, for a fiver I don't care. Nice, she says, are you sure it's a fiver? Well there are ten of them there and the ticket under them says a fiver, the one to the left says a fiver, the one to the right says a fiver, so I think we can assume it's a fiver. Job done - great. Before we go, I decide it would be an idea to get rid of this card, or it will keep losing money - just get some cleaning stuff or batteries or anything we use anyway just to use the card up. I get a set of imperial hex keys that I needed anyway, and use the rest on batteries and a few light bulbs.
We jump in the car. What a bummer, she says, the card was declined so I had to pay cash for a load of stuff we didn't really need. Not the end of the world, the money wasn't spent on anything extravagant.
We get home and unpack. We start to paint. We're using Dulux oil based Weathersheild - wonderful stuff. This like bloody water, swmbo says. She's a good decorator. I start ... yes, it's like water. :roll: There is absolutely no sediment in the can, it took me an age with a flat bottomed stick and a hook on my drill stirring it. I can't take it back as it 's twelve months old and I haven't the receipt.
We stop for tea and look at the receipt. Guess what? The bloody light was £28! I just cannot be bothered to go back to complain, just to be told I should have checked before purchasing - the worst thing being they've caught me like it before.
The only good thing was i was iffing and umming between two sets of keys with £2 between them. I only needed them for one job, but I could do without rubber hex keys. I go for the JCB folding set for the extra £2 - at least I won't lose keys. Looking at them I see they are S2 steel - this a new one to me. An advertising gimmick? No, it turns out to be the best steel alloy for hex keys.
