Heard the one about the mobile battery cover?
If you want a really good laugh go into Carphone Warehouse and ask for a new battery cover for a mobile phone. I have a Nokia N95 and the cover, a flimsy bit of plastic, lost a couple of lugs this week so is currently held on by a bit of sticky tape, very high tech
Personally I think the cover should be covered by warranty - wear and tear is a few years not a few months - but as it isn't I was expecting some rip off price of £4.99 or such like for an item giving plenty of change from 20p to produce. The first time the young lady, smiling sweetly, told me the price I thought my aging old ears had deceived me but no, when she repeated it, I had heard correctly - Carphone Warehouse are charging a staggering £45 for a bit of plastic for the back of a phone.
Not that anything really surprises me about Carphone Warehouse though, having waiting more than a year - so far - for caller display to be restored on my TalkTalk phone line, but £45 - no wonder she was smiling.
Anyone else got mobile phone or landline horror stories to relate?
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Roger Clarke
Birmingham’s very own Grumpy Old Man on what gets right up his nose.
I hope you didn't succumb to it Miss Twankey!!! That's daylight robbery!!! Or perhaps you can afford it now that I've married Princess Poppy??
Thank you Aladdin, see this Pantomime thing is a family affair, oh no it isn't, oh yes it is etc.
For those baffled I was the gorgeous, pouting Widow Twanky, Aladdin's mum, in Panto early in the New Year and she is still looking out for me, bless him. Sexuality is always a bit confusing in panto.