Cav - heard the joke about the foreskins?
The short version goes like this: There was once a woman surgeon, who, upon retiring, said bitterly to a friend that, because she had trained at the time when prejudice against female surgeons was so intense, she had had to be at least twice as good as the men to be given any credit at all. This, she said, had meant that she worked so hard, she never had time for anything outside work - no hobbies, hardly any friends, no family, no sex etc.
You must have SOMETHING to show, said her friend in horror.
In answer, the surgeon pulled out of her bag a little glass jar. "Here" she said bitterly "here is what I have to show! Because the men were so mean to me, every time I did a circumcision I kept the foreskin - since each one was a little revenge. What" she said, holding the jar up "is this to show for a lifetime of dedication and skill?"
Alarmed, the friend said to give her the jar - and she would have something nice made.
Later, she visited with a little parcel. Inside, was the most exquisitely worked little leather wallet. It was made in a patchwork of unbelievably soft and fine leather.
"There!" said the friend. The surgeon continued to look bitter: "Thank you" she said - "but, see how tiny and insignificant it is?"
"Oh" said the friend - "but no! If you rub it it turns into a leather suitcase!"
The preputium rises in moral indignation at the suggestion that mouldy Oranges did not exist in between 1537-1743, anyways medics didn't quite have the same "ring" about it
Here is a whinge, so be prepared.
I have often gone to the same hairdresser for some years - maybe 8?
She left recently, but the shop replaced her with someone quite good, so I kept going.
My last cut from the new woman was fine - except she had forgotten that I need to have lots of little bits cut out of my hair to give it volume.
I realised a day or two after the cut, when I did my hair, and realised the cut, although fine, would not work for me.
I called the salon, and asked for an appointment because the cut needed to be fixed up - the boss said fine.
I had to cancel, because I was so ill - but I rang and re-booked - again reminding them that it was to fix the cut.
I went in today - and the hairdresser kept insisting I was in for a colour - which was what the boss had written down. I explained - again - that the cut had to be fixed - and how she had forgotten to do what I asked her to. She fixed it - but seemed to be doing a lot of cutting. I always almost go to sleep in the hairdressers, cos I am tired and to avoid the inane chat the poor dears are trained to bother me with, so I didn't really notice.
Anyway, I am heading for the door - the hairdresser is ,I realise, headed for the payment desk. "I don't have to pay to get a cut FIXED, do I" I said in surprise. Hairdresser goes and whispers to boss - whom I have known for 8 years. Boss comes over. Discussion ensues containing things like "You never mentioned the cut needed fixing to me!" and "But you had that cut 6 weeks ago!" I explain again and again that I had rung a day or so after the initial cut, explained clearly that it needed fixing, reiterated that when I re-booked, and again when I spoke to the hairdresser today.
Pregnant pause. I am about to say calmly, although angrily, that if they are going to be so ridiculous, I will pay - but they have lost a customer, when boss says, obviously reluctantly and disvelievingly, and as though it is a big favour, that I need not pay.
I go out steaming.
Is it rational for a business to assume that you will go there for eight years, never complaining, all for the sake of getting one free haircut?
Is it?
LOL! And mouldy saddles were used, too, were they not?
But - is there evidence of mouldy oranges being used for syphillis and gonnorrhoea?
Wouldn't work externally for syphilis, anyway.
No, its a lot simpler than that dear Debs.
The ability to deliver customer service all over the globe seems to have evaporated like the morning mist.
I work in IT services and we consistently win business cos other people just do not do what the customer wants, they do what they want and often not even that.
So rest assured it's not you, on this rare occasion tee hee, its them.
Got a pic of the hair ?
After all I have bared all - well nearly !
By the way if that was a whinge you MUST still be sick !!!!
LOL! The proof of the hair will be when I do it to go out tomorrow! Now it is all flat and 'orrible.
Yes - for the first time since I got sick (unless you consider my tragic perch at a hotel afternoon tea a few weeks ago as going out) I am going out tomorrow!
No parties or entertaining yet, but a luncheon! My god! It has been work and bed for 2 months!
yay! Free at last!
Yes, Deb, how about a picture of your haircut? Hiama and I have been kind enough to reveal our true identities to the world -- I believe it is your turn. Actually, if you'd like, you may wear a mask to keep your identity a secret. I am just curious to see the haircut. That is all I ask.
No photos of the haircut - but photos of me are available - there ar elinks on some thread or other - or at Raven's Realm.
Where is a REAL photo of you Ratty?
Are you implying that you don't believe that is my real photo to the left of these words? Look closely at the left bicep. Do you see the tattoo? It clearly says, "Gustav Ratzenhofer -- the man, the myth, the legend."
Oh wait! I forgot, that tattoo is on my leg. You'll have to scroll down.
Have you seen this concert -- quite stimulating
Webpage Title
Very cute.
I ain't going near that leg, though.
D: Since you asked: you are a fine and noble being, but you are over the line with the hair salon.
1) You've been going to the SHOP for eight years, but you've just started using the new cutter.
2) You are the one who is supposed to remind the cutter how you need your hair cut until your relationship is close enough for the cutter to remember you. ( I'm sure they will remember you now.)
3) Yeah, you called and then you cancelled, no fault of the shop, then it takes 6 weeks(?!) for you to make it in. That's a new haircut, you gave up your claim to a fix-up when you cancelled. Your tough luck.
4) When you do breeze in, there's obvious confusion as to why you are there, but you do not do much to make things clear, just sit blissfully sleepily in the chair while the cutter does the work. Then you wonder why they don't see things your way? Next time before a hair is touched, the boss needs to be brought over to the chair to remind him or her of your phone calls and the situation made clear.
5) What we have here is a lot of assumptions being made, most of them by you.
I hope you left a big tip.
Joe
The mantra of the new electronic age is twofold: The customer is always wrong; if the customer might be right, the customer is stupid anyway.
My cable modem crapped out on me. It did this specifically between 9:00 a.m. and late evening. My apartment is hermetically sealed and the temperature maintained by exacting scientific means at 65 degrees Farenplotzmeuller. The only variable present is the heat outside. I run the diagnostics to varify that the cable and the cable modem within the apartment are running properly. (I got the first five months at half-price because i did a "self-install." This entails the ability to read a set of instructions written in a style to which most second grade students would take offense.) I call and explain that they simply need send someone by to check the connection in the box outside. I tell numerous dull-witted represenatives this over a period of weeks; they continually speak as though i were simple, and get horribly flustered, and frequently hostile, when obliged to diverge from the script they are reading, which often contains words they obviously are not familiar with, and the pronunciation of which they hesitate over. Nothing avails but that i wait for a period of weeks for a technician to arrive early on a Saturday morning.
When the tech finally arrives, i stop him at the door, saying: "Wait, you must hear me out." I show him the 'puter, and run the diagnostics: "See, 55 dB, way over the top--please note that the outside temperature has reached over 80 degress flatzenkrider, please also note the interior temperature here." "Yeah, it is cold as hell in here, lemme check the cable." "Hold, young man, i work in an industry which uses RG6 coaxial cable, the requisite connectors and barrels, and i've check them all. I've run the diagnostics, watch." I run the diagnostics, show him the results--"Whoa, 55 dB, that's way over the top." I check for an echo, decide it must be my imagination. I suggest he check the outside box, and get a dubious look and reluctant acquiesence. Outside we got to the dreaded "box." "Whoa, dude, look at that signal trap--not good." Snip, snip, twist, crimp. Back inside: "See, i told ya, it was the connectors, now yer running about 40 to 45 dB's." "Young man, you are a marvel, i would never have known." We spent the rest of the hour discussing video games, and he looked over all the games i have which he hasn't yet tried.
Hiamasport is absotively correct. We run a low voltage security equipment and systems business, and we kill the competion because: a human being answers the phone, politely, and assumes the customer knows whereof they speak--even if it may appear that they have difficultly discerning the fundamental difference between their posteriors and a mine adit; our techinicians call the customer within minutes of being assigned the service call, and arrange a time to arrive to review the problem; both myself (business manager) and the technicians politely listen to whatever saga of frustration and anger the customer cares to relate; having performed the service call, the system is tested to assure operation, the customer is given a copy of the job work order, and a "call-back" to assure that the system now operates to their satisfaction; customers are not billed for more than one hour, unless the additional time is document on the work order, signed by the customer; the customer is not billed for any wiring, cabling or miscellaneous materials which do not exceed $10 in value; inoperative equipment is replaced by a "loaner" until repairs are affected, or the responsible manufacturer is contacted to provide an advance replacement before the customer's equipment is removed. In closing, we thank the customer for their business, and enjoin them to call us immediately if they experience any problems. We are leaving the competition in the dust, and our only problem is that we find it necessary to turn down new service accounts which are not of a certain size because we've got all the business we can handle.
LOL!
No six weeks Joe - two DAYS before the call saying the hair needed fixing - one appointment cancelled because of illness - a clear explanation TWICE to shop - which employs the cutter - and a clear explanation to her on the day of haircut, and before she began the fix cut.
we do not tip hairdressers in Oz - we believe in decent wages in the first place.
I am thinking of opening a hair salon...what would be the best name: 'The Final Cut', 'Good Head', or 'Sweeny Todd's'?
A Cut Above?
You punning on hare here, there, cav?
If it was a hare salon, I would have to steal from Setanta and call it 'Cunning Coneys'.
You may have the title free of charge, to honor Our Dear Bunny . . .
Debt and Foreskin Restoration South Florida
http://www.home-house-improvement.com/dir/foreskin_restoration_South_Florida/index.shtml
(bernie is looking for deck railing designs and finds himself in bizarroland)
