A real blonde joke worth sharing...

Many months ago, we sold our family room furniture and entertainment system on Craigs list. For a few weeks we sat on the floor, watching our old 5 inch kitchen TV. They boys thought it was great because the TV was little and they were about to adjust the channels to their liking. Within a few weeks time, Brad and I took advantage of a great payment advertisment and purchased new family room furniture, including a new HDTV. Along with the furniture purchase, came our 'extended' childproof warranty for a minimal fee, which we knew we had to purchase because we parent the children of monkeys.

Within a few more weeks the new furniture was delivered, fresh out of the delivery truck. The men who unloaded into our home were kind and nice. They kindly explained to me how the new entertainment center is wired, how to change the light bulbs in the unit and how to clean my new sofa and chairs. Great! Now we were all set, ready to have our family room back....

Within a few hours, Matthew thought it was time to bite the wood on the entertainment center door, leaving his teeth marks engraved in the middle of the unit. Sam thought it was fun to make the new entertainment center a ladder and try to climb up it and a great crashing ground for trucks. However, we knew there was something just not so right....it was the light bulbs.

Within 3 weeks, I had replaced the little lightbulb 4 times, when the light was hardly ever on. So, remembering we purchased the 'extended' childproof warranty, I decided since it had only been a month, it was time to put our well purchased warranty to use....I called to file a claim and to have someone come out and fix my child messed up new piece of furniture.

Within 2 more weeks, the little man in a blue truck pulled up to my house. He was hired by our warranty program, specifically to fix the circuit that was shorting out and help me refurbish the teeth marks resting so peacefully on the unit. The little man in the blue truck rang the bell, the door was answered and the conversation went something like this....

Man: "Hello, I'm Steve, I'm here to fix your light"
Me: "Great, come on it"
Boys: "Yeah, mommy, the man is here!!!!"
Me: "Follow me, the Entertainment center is in the family room"
Man: "My my, you have a lot of toys....wow"
Me: "Follow me, it's in here....right here"
Man: "Oh, I see... okay. Let me get my tools out of the car, and I'll get the light working for you"

.......

The man came back in, asked me if he could borrow the ladder. He climbed up on the ladder on top of the entertainment center, took out the light socket and did other things with it. I had to remove myself from the scene as Matthew had a big stinky poopy that needed to be changed before I lost my breakfast and Sam was standing under the ladder that the man was on, just so fascinated.



A few more minutes go by, the boys under more control.....I step back into the Family room.
.............

Me: "Everything all right in here?"
Man: "Yup, the light now works and I'm just getting ready to place the socket back into the unit."
Me: "Great! That was fast"

...few more minutes go by......

Man: "Looks like I"m all done, can you sign on the dotted line?"
Me: "Sure"

....walking out to the front door.....

Me: "Thanks for all your help and coming out to fix the bulb. I knew something wasn't right when I had replaced the bulb 4 times in one month when the unit is hardly ever on."
Man: "Oh, you've already replaced the bulb?"
Me: "Yes, I've replaced the bulb 4 times since we got it and it's only been a month since we've had it. When I called the customer service lady told me they would send you out to replace the entire socket because it sounded like there was some sort of short in the wiring. So thanks for coming out!"
Man: "One moment, I'll be right back"
.......moments go by.......more moments go by....man comes back...
Man: "I'm sorry, I thought you called me out to replace your bulb".
Me: "Are you serious? Do you think I would call my warranty for a broken light bulb?"
Man: "Yes"
Me: "come one....there are many things I can't do, but I know all to well how to change a light bulb. Is this some sort of joke?"
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Needless to say, the entire socket DID get replaced and I think I did a good job at making the man in the little blue truck feel pretty silly. But come on!!!!!!!!