Roberta

My garden tractor would not start, and I diagnosed the problem as a faulty PTO switch. I don’t have any way of hauling the tractor to a repair shop, so my friend’s husband, who has a utility trailer, offered to help me. Every time I was in the repair shop, either to explain what the problem was, or to pick it up and pay for the repair, the man at the counter spoke only to my neighbor’s husband, not to me. Even when I corrected him and said “I’m over here, I’m the one paying, he is just helping me” the man at the counter would only look at him.
Also, even though I told them to check the PTO switch, they tried to charge me 8 hours of labor “to find the problem”. The problem was the PTO switch as I had said. I argued and refused to pay the extra amount and they eventually deducted it from the bill.

I am seriously thinking of changing my name to Robert just to confound everyone’s expectations. I also refuse to fill in any part of a form that asks M or F. Why is that relevant for anything (except maybe surgery)? Cheers.