THAT IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE [T, 5-13-25]

BEYOND WINTER: Irrelevant Musings of An Old Man—THAT IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE [T, 5-13-25]

 

The TV has been out for three days. Two days ago, I spent a whole morning on the telephone, first with a robot woman, and then with a real one, with me crawling around on the floor, trying to get back up, doing all the plugging and replugging and unplugging and multiplugging that they told me to, reciting all the incantations that they knew, and some that I wrote on the spot—Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again…and curse this TV to hell… Finally, it was getting only the Yugoslavian wrestling channel… or something like that.

The real woman finally agreed to send a technician. They should have done that in the first place. After all, that’s why we pay monthly for a service contract.

 The technician came this morning. He didn’t tell me to do anything, or ask me to do anything, just let me sit there on the sofa and watch him work. Within ten minutes, he had everything working correctly, and…

…I learned the difference between good advice and a savior.

John Robert McFarland