Spiky Bugger
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Due to a number of factors*, we think we need to buy one of those walk-in tubs. A small one. We did our homework, still doing it, but came up with the name of one of the companies we want to have visit. I called the manufacturer for the name of THEIR contractor for our area. I have NEVER encountered anyone so determined to NOT sell me something. A few examples:
•well, you wouldn’t want to get one of these too soon, you know. They are usually used by the elderly or sometimes the disabled.
•they aren’t exactly cheap. SOME cost in excess of $20k. We don’t cost that much, but we often hit $14-15k.
•maybe you’d like to think about this and call back in a week or two.
•there has been a lot of marketing, but the showers can spray all over and get the floor wet. (They actually sell a “shower screen.”)
•your husband needs to be there when our representative arrives.
…and so on
Under duress, she made the appointment for me. I called back to the manufacturer (a family-owned company) and said, “If your sales in California have been lagging, I think I can tell you why.” The Customer Service Person was appalled. She said that if the sales rep guy who visits is equally strange, the company will be glad to sell me a tub that my own plumbing contractor can install.
Anyway, if we’ve never spoken on the phone, here’s a heads-up so you aren’t surprised: I sound like a young, healthy, poor woman who doesn’t have the sense to do ANY research before I make five figure purchases or to figure out that shower curtains/doors exist to keep shower water from hitting the floor.
It COULD BE a geography thing. That woman is in the town where my Second Goofiest Aunt (SGA) lives. Also living there is a cousin, SGA’s daughter, who is an RN, who was appalled that her mom, tested positive for COVID in spite of having three vaccines. I mentioned that perhaps those vaccines were the reason that the SGA had mild symptoms and even though she tested positive and the hospital WAS NOT full and she’s a few weeks short of 89, she was not sick enough to be admitted. Cousin responded with something like “my hairdresser’s gardener’s cousin knows someone whose kid had side effects from the vaccine.“ And I, of course, mentioned that we know a three-year-old who was part of the blinded Moderna studies and who had ZERO side effects, not even a sore arm, so the parents were SURE he got the placebo. Study was unblinded, he got the real thing. Anyway, maybe living there makes everyone goofy. Although my SGA has ALWAYS been very odd.
*This means there has been yet another catastrophe which will require tearing out a shower, the leaking (concrete) shower pan under the shower, the subflooring under the shower pan and even adding a “sister joist” under the new subflooring.
•well, you wouldn’t want to get one of these too soon, you know. They are usually used by the elderly or sometimes the disabled.
•they aren’t exactly cheap. SOME cost in excess of $20k. We don’t cost that much, but we often hit $14-15k.
•maybe you’d like to think about this and call back in a week or two.
•there has been a lot of marketing, but the showers can spray all over and get the floor wet. (They actually sell a “shower screen.”)
•your husband needs to be there when our representative arrives.
…and so on
Under duress, she made the appointment for me. I called back to the manufacturer (a family-owned company) and said, “If your sales in California have been lagging, I think I can tell you why.” The Customer Service Person was appalled. She said that if the sales rep guy who visits is equally strange, the company will be glad to sell me a tub that my own plumbing contractor can install.
Anyway, if we’ve never spoken on the phone, here’s a heads-up so you aren’t surprised: I sound like a young, healthy, poor woman who doesn’t have the sense to do ANY research before I make five figure purchases or to figure out that shower curtains/doors exist to keep shower water from hitting the floor.
It COULD BE a geography thing. That woman is in the town where my Second Goofiest Aunt (SGA) lives. Also living there is a cousin, SGA’s daughter, who is an RN, who was appalled that her mom, tested positive for COVID in spite of having three vaccines. I mentioned that perhaps those vaccines were the reason that the SGA had mild symptoms and even though she tested positive and the hospital WAS NOT full and she’s a few weeks short of 89, she was not sick enough to be admitted. Cousin responded with something like “my hairdresser’s gardener’s cousin knows someone whose kid had side effects from the vaccine.“ And I, of course, mentioned that we know a three-year-old who was part of the blinded Moderna studies and who had ZERO side effects, not even a sore arm, so the parents were SURE he got the placebo. Study was unblinded, he got the real thing. Anyway, maybe living there makes everyone goofy. Although my SGA has ALWAYS been very odd.
*This means there has been yet another catastrophe which will require tearing out a shower, the leaking (concrete) shower pan under the shower, the subflooring under the shower pan and even adding a “sister joist” under the new subflooring.
