Well, last Thursday we took the video tape of my op into a shop to have it converted into a DVD. We have neither video player nor a TV so a video tape would be of no use to us. A DVD we could play on the PC or laptop.
The girl in the shop said they would have to send it away and it would be collected after the weekend, i.e. Saturday, and would be back in 3 days - Monday, and they would ring us to advise us when it was back. On Tuesday, not having had a call, hubster went in to ask if it was back. It had been done but the driver had forgotten to pick it up. Not amusing considering this place is very difficult to get to now due to extensive road works. The next evening hubster went again but was told it still wasn't back and could he wait half and hour? No he couldn't and he told them what they could do with the DVD because, considering the price we were paying for it, the service was very poor.
An hour after he'd got home he had a call to say that the DVD had finally arrived. Hubster again told them they could stick it in the bin as he didn't want to do business with them (he's very principled and doesn't appreciate being mucked about). He would collect the original video tape the next day when we were out shopping.
Meanwhile, I'm upset because I've been waiting a week to see this epic film, starring my internals, and now hubster has told them to bin it. There was nothing to say that, if we tried another company, we wouldn't still have bad service, which is the way of things here. In the end, hubster relented and went to collect both the DVD and the video tape.
So, we settled down in front of my PC ready for the show. I was quite apprehensive but nevertheless keen to see what had gone on and what had caused the doc such a scare while I was snoring my head off under the anaesthetic. In went the DVD as we braced ourselves for blood and gore. Nothing! Not even a message about the DVD. The PC appeared to be reading it but nothing at all came up on the screen. Over to the laptop to see if it would play on there. Nothing! Same story. It really looks as though there's nothing recorded on the DVD although it doesn't say that.
Now the thing is.... was there anything actually recorded on the video tape in the first place? We need to find out before we return to the shop and blast them to kingdom come and ask for our money back. I wonder who has a video player these days? We have friends who have one, but it's still packed in the remnants of their shipping. I tell you this much, if there is nothing on the video tape, I'm sure as hell not going to do a repeat so they can film it again. Can't anyway as my offending gallbladder has long been chucked in the bin, so that's that. Dear me, why are the simplest things so difficult?
