Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

In praise of bots

Turns out they are a lot more understanding than their human counterparts

Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto 
issue 02 October 2021

British Gas finally agreed to service my boiler, for no reason I could make out other than the boiler wasn’t new any more. All the while it was new, they refused to go anywhere near it.

The majestic Worcester Bosch was installed four years ago as I began my renovations, egged on by the builder boyfriend’s bold assurances about the king of combination boilers.

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