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Believe it or not, I have had this happen to me. I was working in a shop
fixing televisions when I got a strange call from a lady that told me
one of her tubes in her tv was broken. This was back in 1971 when
there were still tubes in the tv sets.
I told her to bring it in. A couple of hours later she brought in
what we called RF Transformers. The sad looking woman
had in her hand the device, broken off of a circuit board with
the wires dangling. She said "I coudn't get it out, so I used a
pair of pliers to break it loose"
There were two of us in the room with our mouths open, including
me. I was speechless.
This also happened to my wife Susan. We were just moving into a
new house by Lake Michigan, and she was busy calling to get
the services, phone, electric, etc connected.
She called up the Garbage collecting service and politely asked:
"What day do you DELIVER?". She waited a few minutes and
then asked again. I was in the next room and overheard her
words that were getting more and more frustrated. I asked her
what was wrong and she said the man on the other end of the
line suddenly fell silent and could not understand why he did
not reply to her. I said "Did you listen to what you just said?"
She then said "OH" and we laughed. I have been telling this
one for more than 20 years now.
LOL Robert
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