Buying a major appliance, while expensive, can be exciting. You’re tired of washing clothes by hand. You look forward to reading a good book while the washer works its magic. You anticipate hitting the open road with your spiffy new car. The list goes on and on. So do your calls with customer service. You find yourself believing the person on the other end of the phone will be imprisoned if you’re helped. But this experience pales in comparison to the soul-sucking horror of trying to get service at the place where you made your major purchase, a dealership for example. You go round and round with the service people. At every turn, you discover they can’t fix your car. And if they can fix your vehicle, you find out that they won’t.
If only there were a word to describe this implaccable lack of help. And now there is:
TODAY’S AWESOME PHRASE
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Awesome entry #46
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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