Home Contents Insurance - aaargh!

This morning I popped into the office, which is

the beating heart of our little community, to flag up a

problem with my gutters.  Whilst there I just happened to

glance at the notice board and saw a poster

for a company offering contents insurance

specially tailored for people in similar circumstances

to myself.

Knowing my luck, I thought I'd better.

 

 Good, I thought, that will save me a trip into Norwich

so I jotted down the details (including an extremely attractive

first year offer of £25.54 which is less than 50p per week

as they were quick to point out for those of us whose

wits are too addled to work it out for themselves.)

Is your mummy there Peter?

 

 Back at the lock up I wasted no time in phoning and spoke

to a "child" who introduced himself as Peter.

I was tempted to ask if his mummy knew he was playing

with the phone but somehow managed to resist.

 

Now we get to the bit which outraged me.

We went through all the rigmarole and small talk and

he quoted me a figure of £56.92.  That's strange,

I said in my best dowager voice, the poster in the office

said £25.54 for the first 12 months.  How do you

explain that?

Don't mess with the wrinklies - some of us still have teeth!

 

 Without turning a hair he told me that company policy was

to only offer the lower price if challenged.

I'll leave it to your own imaginations to write

the ending to this little scenario as I don't really want

to go into print with my exact words.

But to give you a clue - thieving and another word for

illegitimate were in there somewhere.