Apr 04 2009
We Need To Talk About My Boiler (Part 2)
Boys and girls – you simply did not pray hard enough!
It’s a worst case scenario. The old girl gave up the ghost and has been sent to the big boiler room in the sky (time for a ‘scam’ joke here?). Now the guys from npower have sold us a replacement for a cool £3,500 – a supposed discount of about £2,000 – but have left us without instant hot water and central heating for three weeks while they sort out their work schedule.
The episode has become another case of the Wood-Finks suffering other folks’ towering ineptitude. Just more expensive than usual.
What’s more, the day it all kicked in, I received a forwarded email from an old friend revelling in the innocent pleasures of yesteryear. But his message didn’t mention frozen inside windows, wash days lasting a week, fires that had to be laid and hearths that had to be cleaned. Nor did it refer to the cold knifing your tootsies as you clambered out of bed or dashing into an unheated bathroom for a wash.
I don’t know about anyone else out there, but I enjoy my creature comforts and hugely resent being without them for a day, let alone almost an entire month. Boo Hoo!
msniw
