When last we left the minor Saga of the Television, TV Guy was going to order a part, which would take about a week to come in and then a week for him to clear his busy schedule to come all the way to Bumblefuck to install the new parts.
Almost a month later…
So he comes today, has me explain again that this is a problem that Sony acknowledges. Then he’s doing his thing and he calls me over. Apparently this:
is because I’m a lousy housekeeper.
Yes, this problem is not the optic tube he was replacing (and that Sony was covering b/c it was an inherent problem in this model) but the dust that I allowed to get on the fan inside the television over the course of three years. He proceeded to lecture me on dusting my TV. I’m like, “I dust my TV. Ass.” He wouldn’t let up. So I said, “Are you saying I need to take apart the TV to clean the fan to keep my picture working properly?” There was some doublespeak involved which amounted to “Yeah.”
Then he told me that if you watch something with a very white screen, like a hockey game (Go Pens), you’ll eventually see small brown spots. Those are due to dust getting inside the set. I said, “I’ve never seen that.” Then he got defensive. I said, “Well I’ve always dusted my TVs so…”
Thankfully he’s gone, the TV is fixed and I hope I never have to deal with Dusty the TV Repairman again.
4 Comments
May 12, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Sorry about the unfair attack on your TV dusting proficiency.
Defensive repairmen are the worst.
May 12, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Yeah it’s a good thing he didn’t see the bathroom.
May 12, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Okay. See. This SAME EXACT CONVERSATION was had by me and MY TV repairman! Only my TV is a Mitsubishi DLP. I told the dude, “Yup. I’m a slackass, and it’s a good thing for *you, right? I mean, you’re getting paid by Mitsubishi to come out and fix my slackassery, so how ’bout you lay off, huh?” He finished his repair and left without another word about my apparent inability to dust properly.
May 12, 2008 at 11:46 pm
See? See? TV repair assholes hate Stephanies.