Not me - but makes you think
I did a course at work many moons ago and the chap who ran it told us about the time he bought something in Comets that did not have a plug attached.

As the law stating that all new electrical goods had to have a plug was only a very short time away from becoming legal, he requested a free plug and was turned down. He explained to them what his job was and asked them to reconsider and was turned down. He pointed out that the incident would be repeated at every opportunity to several people at least twice a week and was still turned down. This was all repeated to the manager and was still refused a free, less than 25p, plug.

The guy went on to tell us that he runs two courses a week on average over 40 weeks a year, sometimes more. Each course has an average of fifteen attendees. The above incident had occurred some five years before.On every course he has recounted the same story. Statistically, complaint stories are repeated 8/10 times by the listeners but I have probably repeated it more like a hundred times.

To that time the guy must have recounted this incident to 5,000 people and many more since and I wonder how many others have passed this on too?

All for the want of a plug.
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(whiskas loved by 8 out of 10 cats, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 14:08, 4 replies)

Personally I wouldn't care.
How difficult is it to wire your own plug FFS?
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Sun 5 Sep 2010, 14:20, closed)

not the point is it?

(whiskas loved by 8 out of 10 cats, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 14:33, closed)

At what point does it say that he wanted them to wire it for him?
You're missing quite a simple point.
(Sloppy Giuseppe, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 15:41, closed)

Comet, you say?
D'y'hear that, Googlebot? COMET. That big electrical retailer thingy.
( eXOBeX, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 15:55, closed)