An Example for us All

[Santa]

This popped up on my FB page today and I thought it worth posting here, in the hope that the electrician involved may be a member and as an example of how to create that elusive attribute called good will:

Sometimes, it is the little things.

On Friday morning we woke up to discover that our electricity was ----ed. (This is a technical term.) My much longed for lie in was cruelly shattered by Jamie rushing into our room, utterly appalled. "Mum! Dad! My COMPUTER has stopped working!" (Bet he wouldn't have been quite so horrified if it had been the washing machine which had gone kaput.)

Dragging ourselves out of bed, we quickly established that one of the switches in the fuse box had resolutely switched itself to the off position, rendering most of the ground floor electrics out of use. Wishing, not for the first time, that I knew anything at all about how electricity worked, Mr IKINTST and I used best endeavours to unplug appliances and attempt to get to the root cause of the problem. Nothing doing.

By now, it was 7.30am on Good Friday morning. We were about to go away for the weekend and I had a full quota of white goods out of action with not a clue about how to restore them to working order.

I will cut a long story short. Via the power of the internet, I texted a number of local electricians (I figured a text was slightly less intrusive than a phone call at that time of the morning) on the off chance any of them happened to be working a bank holiday and would be willing to carry out a non-urgent urgent call out for me.

One texted me back within seconds. Yes, of course he would be happy to come out, but did I want to first text him a photo of the fuse box? He thought there might be a chance he could resolve the issue remotely for us.

And, what do you know...he did just that. In just a handful of texts, the rogue socket had been identified (our outdoor plug), isolated, and power had been restored. I was so grateful, I would have paid him any extortionate callout charge that he wanted.

He didn't. He didn't want anything at all. He was simply happy to have been able to assist a - slightly hysterical - member of the public in her hour of need.

And in doing so, he made an impact on me like you wouldn't believe.

Random acts of genuine kindness occur so infrequently as to be quite exceptional in their wonder and generosity when they do. The lasting impression my electrical guardian angel left on me - which I intend on repaying by booking him in to carry out a large set of electrical works which we have been needing to get booked in - has been marked. And has left me feeling that, if all of us could go out of our way to do this more...what a world it could be.

Small, random acts of kindness can touch our everyday lives for the better. If you've experienced - or given - one recently, I would love to hear about it. Maybe it will inspire more of us to do similar. The internet can be used for all kinds of wrongdoing. On this grey, soggy Bank Holiday Monday, let's use it to spread some love

 

[Midwest]

Stop being a wimp and man up, no wonder plumbers think that modern day sparks are a bunch of nine bob notes, sheeeesh I had a loose tooth last year well half of one and pulled it out myself (it was dead so no nerves)

Think the tooth had nerves, its just the rest of the body where its missing

 

[Spoon]

(it was dead so no nerves)

We talking about your whole head now???

 

[elsparko]

Stop being a wimp and man up, no wonder plumbers think that modern day sparks are a bunch of nine bob notes, sheeeesh I had a loose tooth last year well half of one and pulled it out myself (it was dead so no nerves)

let me just crack off the top half of one of your teeth and try it on you first?

 

[Squid]

let me just crack off the top half of one of your teeth and try it on you first?

Teach you a lesson taking bottle tops off with your teeth.......... ;o))))))

 

[Squid]

We talking about your whole head now???

Nah, your blow up sex doll ;o)))))

 

[static zap]

Just a needle in the gum these days .
( and eat your own cheeks later ..)
.... I've gone without for minor work - but they prefer the stuff
as I think it lowers bleeding / swelling.
( and bruises given to assistants )
-- I've got my appointment ( and occasionally a female dentist )

 

[Dave Rudderham]

Had similar on Christmas Day. Phone went, cooker wasn't working. Couple of pictures later and some twit had caught the isolation switch. Didn't charge, day after boxing day a knock on the door, as I'd saved dinner they'd saved me a bottle of single malt!