So, I move the case, the backpack containing the computer crashes to the floor.
As soon as we get to our house in Island Bay in Bahamia, I grab the backpack, boot up the computer and look with held breath to see what is going to happen. Hmmm , that's interesting, the screen is split in half in kind of a gray colour. It alost looks like two pieces of gray paper put together. Not good. Oh, I so hope it is really sick and not dead!!!
Saturday is New Years Day. Everything is closed.
Sunday, the business store is always closed.
Monday, I'm there at the shop first thing in the morning. "It needs a new screen but we don't do that but I know a guy....It will cost $180 to fix and I need cash down." I give the guy $100. He appears to want more. Sorry. Not going to happen. I get a receipt and notice the store name isn't on it. Hmmmmm......
An hour later the phone rings. My screen isn't ordinary. It is now $200 and will be ready next Wednesday.
Todd is now visiting the following Wed. and sure enough I get a call first thing in the morning telling me that the computer will be available around 4 that afternoon. We run around doing tourist things and about 3:30 we are in the store's general area so we drop in. They can't find my computer anywhere. They can't find the techie. They call the techie. He tells me to go home but that the computer is going to be ready. I explain I don't want to come back into town. He sticks to his guns and tells me to leave. Just about as I am leaving the techie area I notice for the first time this sign that says something like, "To our customers. Only pay cash to the cashiers at the front of the store." Oh my, a little late for that!!!!!
I head down one of the major arteries in Freeport when my cell rings again. He asks where I am. I tell him I am almost at Wendy's so he says fine he will meet me in Wendy's parking lot. Todd loses it with me and I have to remind him #1 of the family heirarchy and #2 You are now in a different world and #3 I would almost walk on glass to get my computer back!!!!!
We are only in Wendy's parking lot a few minutes. Todd is still mumbling to himself. I notice this very nice car drive in and sure enough it is being driven by the techie. I get out. Boot up the computer on the hood of the car. All looks good. I give him another $100. He is getting ready to drive away when I ask my first dumb question,"Can I have a receipt?" Followed by the next dumb question, "Is is guranteeded for any amount of time?" He kind of smirks but not quite, "You have my card. Give me a call." Not bring it back into the shop, no, meet me at Pizza Hut!!!!!
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