New For Old
May. 7th, 2014 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloMy mother's TV stopped talking to her yesterday. We saw our chance and got straight on to the people she rents from and ordered a replacement. She's had this one for ten years at least- since before my father died- and has always resisted making the change- in spite of needing a bigger screen- - but she can't argue against the thing no longer working.
She pays £25 a month to rent a set- and will have paid out the market price on this one several times over. She'll now be getting a LCD for the same price. She's been hanging on because she hates change. Perhaps she doesn't want to hurt the old set's feelings. I mention this because that's the way I think. Perhaps it's inherited.
Afterwards we poked around some more and found the TV was fine- and the thing at fault was the SKY Box- but we're not rescinding the order.
She pays £25 a month to rent a set- and will have paid out the market price on this one several times over. She'll now be getting a LCD for the same price. She's been hanging on because she hates change. Perhaps she doesn't want to hurt the old set's feelings. I mention this because that's the way I think. Perhaps it's inherited.
Afterwards we poked around some more and found the TV was fine- and the thing at fault was the SKY Box- but we're not rescinding the order.
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