ThreeDimensionalPeople » foolish http://threedimensionalpeople.com Why don't you go outside and play with the three dimensional people? Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:37:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Stephen’s Charitable Foundation for Household Appliance Engineers http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/05/stephens-charitable-foundation-for-household-appliance-engineers/ http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/05/stephens-charitable-foundation-for-household-appliance-engineers/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 06:59:00 +0000 Stephen http://threedimensionalpeople.com/2008/05/stephens-charitable-foundation-for-household-appliance-engineers/

Continuing to document my service experiences good, bad and downright ugly, today's gas stove engineer was probably among the most expensive experience on a per minute basis. £70 for approximately 600 seconds (most of which involved opening his magnificent toolbox and displaying his wares). I really felt like a chump - scared off by the fiddly screws and 50,000 volt mini lightning strikes that the ignition switch creates that can floor a rhino (maybe).

However, I blame Google - I tried various terms relating to "sticking ignition on NEFF stoves" hoping to find some forum of technically-adept housewives chatting endless about modding their domestic appliances, but oddly the cupboard was bare.

So, who needs to be a lawyer earning $700/hr - you can double that by just grabbing a toolbox and finding dopes like me wrestling with domestic appliances.

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