Rodent Regatta

Suggestion to homeowners – never get your house painted. For if you do, you will find that first some minor repairs need to be made. The carpenters, upon performing these repairs, will remove some siding and call you over to look inside your walls. You will realize that, for some extended period of time, water’s been leaking through the tiles in the shower. And the need for even more extensive and expensive repairs will become evident.

Save yourself the trouble. Don’t paint the house. Just wait for it to fall down around you. [Steven’s Weblog]

At better shops that sell men’s suits, you see a similar phenomenon. Under the guise of great customer service, you select a suit and before you know it, that suit is ”laid out” with a matching shirt, tie, belt and pocket handkerchief in the worst example of the ”presumptive sales close” you’ve ever seen.
Lately, a dentist tried a similar tactic with me. ”Don’t you want some whitening with that root canal?” No, and I don’t want to help you make any more boat payments either!