They don’t make them like…

Going into the last Bank Holiday weekend, on the Thursday evening the screen on the television went all wonky. The sound was perfect, as was text (like the program bar that displays on-screen by Virgin/Sky) but, moving pictures were all blurred as if time distorted and the colours were really bright. How long had we had this telly? One year and 3 weeks! Easily remembered because the previous one failed on the previous Bank Holiday weekend exactly one year earlier when it was one year and 3 weeks old. Fortunately I had the foresight to take out 3 years product insurance at the time, so I phoned the insurance company and a little man comes out on the Tuesday after the Bank Holiday. He replaced the main-board and power supply without curing the problem so the telly had to be collected to go off to the workshop. Today I got a call to say that it looks like an un-economic repair and that we will most likely be issued with a voucher to get a replacement telly. While this will be a most acceptable result it does bring to mind that old adage --They don’t make them like they used to!