Repairs

Lately I have a lot of appliance repairs. My internet is frequently down. Last week I had a problem with the TV cable. I am not sure if I wrote in the blog about my internet problems. In this land of technology and highest broadband density in the world my server gets down frequently and I cannot connect for days. My internet provider is KT (Korean Telecom). Since March I had four visits. The last one was last week Monday. However, after the Monday visit I had internet shortly in the evening and then the server went down again. Hmmm…
Next morning I was not happy talking to the guy at KT service center. Among other things I asked him to send me someone with brains to fix the server. So Tuesday afternoon they sent a man and a woman. On previous visits I had only a man. I do not recall was it a same guy or different ones. Do not remember their faces…
The woman spoke a bit of English so I asked her why I have server problems. Her answer was: “Your cable is too long”. Hmmm... so in land of semiconductors, LGs and Samsungs a problem is a length of a cable? You cannot argue with that. By the way I cannot have wireless in my Seoul apartment because "my apartment is too big". I thought that's why you have a wireless...but I am just a Balkan girl. Anyway, for time being the server is OK.
Today I had two guys from “sky” cable network to fix a receiver. They put the new receiver as the old one was dead for a week. The funny thing is they said they will repair the old one (which did not give any signs of life for the past 7 days) and will come to replace the new one they installed today with the old one - on June 23rd. So I have two weeks of TV until receiver resurrection. I wonder in how many days after 23rd I will have to call a service again. Why they cannot leave the new one? Or perhaps they like foreigners so much they have to visit them frequently.
Talking about repairs my friend Ylona had a problem with airco in her new car. Here in hot, humid, traffic congested Seoul a car without airco is not a pleasant experience. So Ylona went to the garage and asked them to fix it. The guy checked and told her that the airco is OK. She said "No, it’s not. I am so hot in the car". The guy answered: "You are hot because of your body heat".
Well, Ylona is “hot”, but not “that hot”. But she went ballistic when she heard the guys reply. They cooled down and fixed her airco.