Re: An absurd situation

["petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>]

I totally agree with you..


"mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> 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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