RETURN
An experience of sheer terror. Here's some advice for when you want
to return goods to their place of purchase.
- When you get to the shop, radiate confidence. For some reason,
whenever I'm in this situation I get pangs of guilt going
through my mind... "You don't really need to return it! It
works okay if you hold it at a 30 degree angle! Don't be so
petty! It only singed a bit of the carpet! Only the garden shed
burnt down! It didn't fry the whole family! You've got a nerve,
daring to declare the manufacturers to have failed in their
goal of trying to bring you the perfect product X! They'll
probably shed jobs over this! And you'll be personally
responsible for the decline of dozens of families, and the
eventual joint suicide of the workers at the ruined site of the
bankrupt factory."
-- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA
RECEIPT
Proof of the purchase of goods. There are two distinct types of
receip
- the receipt that sits in your wallet for the best part of a
year before you clean it out, and then pops up again regularly
for the rest of your life, in desk drawers, stuck in books as
bookmarks, or attached to the fridge with a magnet
- the receipt that you think you put safely somewhere, but can't
find when the goods that you bought falls apart/breaks down/
causes you to want to return the goods, for whatever reason....