[TheForge] Prices

[Mike Spencer]

> Some jobs you just can't afford to pay someone to do, and the
> companies know it.

In 1966, I worked in a Volswagen dealership.  No car that came through
the door got out with less than $15 on the bill. (1968 dollars,
roughly day's wages for me then, call it over $100 in 2007 dollars.)
Anything smaller the shop forman went out and did in the parking lot
at no charge. Some of those $15 jobs consisted of sticking a screw
driver under a certain wire and twisting it 90 degrees.

> Try to get someone to come out to your house to change a light
> bulb<G>.

There is more to changing a light bulb (or "relamping" as we say in
the new century) than one at first might think:

    http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/alien/bulb-mit.html



- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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