Re: An absurd situation

["mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This just goes to show you that it is not always about money, Bob.

I've seen this favouritism from both sides all my life. French prefer
French, English prefer English, it will never change. That idiot Trudeau did
us NO favours at all with his ill-conceived bilingualism policies, it DID
NOT work.

"R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I really thought I'd heard it all until this afternoon.
>
> Got a call from a woman moving into a home with an alarm I had installed
> some years ago, and that had been non monitored for a couple of years. We
> made an appointment for tomorrow morning to hook it up to the CS, and when
I
> arrived home, my wife said the woman had called to cancel the appointment.
> So curious as to why, I called the lady and found that she had made an
> appointment with a large company who promised to send out a French
speaking
> salesman. Now since I knew this company and their rates, I pointed out to
> her that she was going to have to pay $10 a month more for service, get
> limited warranty and service compared to my offering, and burden herself
> needlessly with a three year contract.
>
> Her response to me for why she was going with them was..." you're not a
> Francophone from Quebec"....!!! Talk about "reverse bias". I get by in
> French, and my son is fluently bilingual, but her reasoning (if you want
to
> call it that) was that I was not Canadian French from Quebec, so she chose
> not to deal with me....
>
> For the first time in my life I simply had no answer !! But I couldn't
help
> thinking..."Lady, if you're that stupid that you want to go for that kind
of
> deal simply because I don't come from Quebec, then go for it...."
>
> Gawd, proves the old adage...a fool and his money are soon parted.
>
> RHC
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