A coda to last Friday's adventure in home appliance repair: About an hour later, the repair tech. called back to see whether or not his debugging and repair instructions had panned out. Which was certainly professional of him. But before Dennis hung up, the tech. requested his own form of payment for services rendered: "Oh, if anyone from the office calls, tell them that somebody else told you how to fix it."
Which made the History major in me smile: Clearly rumours of the guild system's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
