Tilly had called the plumber three times. Three times apparently was not enough. The dishwasher had overflowed several times all over the kitchen floor. Tilly had to resort to doing the dishes by hand.
That’s the trouble with modern tradesmen; they don’t seem to care. They don’t seem to want to make a living. There it was in black and white in the phone book: Jeffcott and Son Ltd – You can rely on us.
Tilly had had enough. She would try them for a fourth time and if she had no luck she wouldn’t know what to do but for sure she wouldn’t be trying them again. If only there was more than one plumber in town. Not only did she phone a fourth time, but when they said they would be of no help she gave them an earful.
That’s the trouble when needing a plumber and one phones the electrician.
Weave a Web 
Oh, that silly Tilly.
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Just as well her name wasn’t Thomasine – because then you couldn’t rhyme it so easily.
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Green Thomasine?
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Here’s me trying to pick a hard name!
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Tilly seems to be the kind of person who’d visit a proctologist for a throat itch.
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I had to look up proctologist – when I say “look up” I meant the dictionary.
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I did so me looking up (in the dictionary) when you last used the word. Tis good to get handsy and flip through those dark, pungent pages, don’t you think?
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I can’t believe I might have used the word. Shows you how I pretend to be erudite!
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We all do Bruce. I often use a word and later find myself confused about its meaning when I find someone else using it lol.
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Butt…
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Bum
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Not far enough in future Tilly may have dishwasher a that would auto-repair itself or phone the correct technician and failing both would auto-destruct itself. I wonder if particular a brand of dishwashers, such as Brugman, would have a terminal module that would eliminate the owner herself in order to address the problem. Of course, the technology would be patented.
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I think you missed your calling, Uma. You should be designing household appliances.
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Now that you say that, I think you have correctly identified my elements.
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Incidentally, who swapped ‘a particular’ with ‘particular a’? Damn those futuristic dishwashers for they can travel in time too.
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Minds do funny things – I read it as “a particular” and didn’t notice till you pointed it out.
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We seem to have a telepathic connection after all.
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Always have – as you’re going to say tomorrow.
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Identified your elements as in “stove”.
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Tilly is a dilly!
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It’s a bit of a shock when one mixes electricity and plumbing.
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Yes – I think that story could go down the drain.
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