Vodafone Boots

How many folk singers are needed to get a new pair of boots?
Eleven; one to buy the new boots and the other ten to sing a song about how good the old ones were!
I was about to prepare them for another application of wax and realised that they really are beyond that now. The central part of the tread looks like it has been drawn on by pencil and despite my best efforts the leather has deep cracks at the toe section which undergoes most articulation when you walk. Without sounding like a folk song Scarpa no longer make this model either. Think of it not as losing a pair of boots but gaining a spare set of laces and insoles. Their replacements are already in use but you get that ridiculous notion that you don’t want to wear them–the good boots- because they are just too good for work.

I can’t recall if I have moaned on blip previously about my mobile phone. I tend to get a low spec, last year’s model type, such is the frequency of me drowning them at work. My present Samsung “ginger kit kat ace” (it really is called something stupid like that) now works with a 30 second delay to every key stroke. It responds so slowly that even if I tap the screen to answer a call it thinks I haven’t answered and the network diverts the call to voice mail. Today I have ordered a replacement. It is at the end of its line and about to be replaced by a sexier new one but crucially for me it is supposed to be able to withstand a splash.

Here is a laugh. Vodafone are a mobile network and phone reseller. I phoned them and said I wanted to buy a phone. I am mid contract and explained that I would be prepared to pay the full price and just resume with my current sim. Mr Vodafone said go to our web site and… I explained I had already done that and the waterproof phone I wanted wasn’t visible. He said he would put me through to the sales department. I held for several minutes then the same man came back and said it couldn’t be done over the phone or web, I would need to go to my local Vodafone shop. I said that was miles away in Inverness and I would need to take a day off work.
“Anything else I can do for you today?”
I had to explain I found it bizarre that I wanted a phone and when I phoned the company specialising in this field, and with whom I am already an existing customer, they were effectively pointing me at Amazon.
The big energy companies are slated for making excessive profits. The mobile phone companies make even more in percentage terms. Imagine how much more profit they could make if they were properly managed and actually sold stand-alone phones.
“Anything else I can do for you today?”
“Well aye, I’m needing a new pair of boots for work”.
“Certainly what size?”