An Honest Engineer

I'm prejudiced against engineers. They fill me with preconceived fear. I had an engineer come to my house this afternoon to have a look at my defective tumble dryer.

He got his tools out and was ready to get started. I said to him there was no point me standing over him while he's working, but he said it was OK for me to watch and he'd prefer it if I did so that he can talk me through what he was doing and his findings.

Well you could have knocked me down with a feather. As I said, I'm very cynical about Mr Fix It's. Mechanics, boiler inspectors, gas fitters, painters & decorators because as a lone female, I always get the impression that they're just charging me 30% extra for being a woman so I thought it was very sweet of the tumble dryer man to tell me to stay and watch him work. He could have been talking nursery rhymes for all I know but it made me feel better about the work he came to do.

As promised, he said that the call-out was free of charge. He made it very clear that my old clapped out tumble dryer had run out of life and unfortunately, I'd need a new one because some of the cables were burnt out - hence the thing giving me an electric shock nearly every time I switch it on.

So I guess not all engineers are out to get me.