"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Steve Jones
saying something like:

Do what I did, ask an electrician to go round and quote for any work
that needs doing. Most do a free quote.

You mean deliberately waste someone's time?

Maybe that explains why we get so many people complaining about tradesmen
who won't give free quotes!