Similar to others....
1) Yes, I'll pop over for an hour or so and fix that PC. Wasted two afternoons on that and the guy wasn't even grateful.
2) Do you want to go out for a drink sometime? Lead to a year of wasted finances and a relationship that I wish in hindsight had not happened. She was a mean spirited woman who never really warmed to me despite my best efforts. She did warm to the gin and tonics I bought though.
3) Yep. Let's get this Parnet transfer going. His cable was faulty and it resulted in a blown CIA chip on my A4000T. This was in South Africa, where there were very few Amiga techies per square kilometer who could fix that, if you know what I mean. I had to drive to another town 40km away, pay handsomely to get it fixed.
4) Yes, I'll sign up with your agency. Turned out to be a bunch of douche-bags with no moral compass at all. I ditched them but still got calls for years afterwards asking if I want work. Here is how the last conversation went:
BINT: Hi Mr ***** this is ***** from *** agency. I am just checking to see if you are looking for work, we have quite a lot of it available.
ME: (after taking a big breath in) May I ask how long you have been working there, *****?
BINT: I just started a few weeks ago.
ME: Okay. Well I am sure you are quite a nice person, *****, but I have had less than favourable experiences with your agency going back a number of years. In fact I have had several phone calls since 2006 from your agency despite the fact that I have requested on each occasion that I be completely removed from your books.
BINT: Oh, I am sorry...
ME: I just want to make something clear, because these calls are becoming more than irritating. I will never work for *** again and I wish to have no further contact from *** or any of its agents. I want my name removed from any electronic or hardcopy database that may be held at your premises or remotely and I want a complete dissociation between myself and your agency as if we had never made contact. If I get one more call, email or letter from your agency, I will have my solicitor draw up a harassment case against *** agency and I will publish letters of complaint in all the radiography journals and in all the online forums about your agency's complete inability to follow instructions as requested on multiple occasions previously. Is all that clear?
BINT: Yes, I am sorry...
ME: No need to be sorry, this can all be fixed very simply. Go into all your records and wherever you see my name just press delete. Wherever you see this phone number just press delete. Job done. I trust we won't be speaking again?
BINT: No
ME: Good. Have a nice day.
