Haggle not ye Fiend
July 7, 2008 –
It doesn’t happen often (well not to me anyway) but occasionally you get someone who calls you and tries to offer you a cheap rate. Hmmmm. I often ask myself, would this person gladly take a pay cut? Would this person do this to a solicitor or accountant ? (I can’t see the difference – we all offer a service). No I don’t think he would. So here is how it went today. Awright, where you? (Plymouth) yeah, wherbouts? (Not telling you :) Ok, I have 80 quid cash here in me hand and I’m not far from you, it won’t take long….. (durrrrr I hung up by then :) - Oh and the spelling mistakes are intentional – he spoke like that. Now, maybe he had just returned from a bargain basement jaunt to Egypt where haggling is indeed acceptable (possibly not with solicitors or accountants though), perhaps he was taking a stiff toke from a hubbly bubbly pipe while he called and wanted to re-live his exotic experience? Or maybe he’s been watching too many cockney geezer shows along the ilk of ‘Only Fools and Horses’ or he fancies himself as Arfur Daly. Who knows? Who cares? I just hope he doesn’t call me again :)




