Most interesting repair house calls/oldest sets serviced.

[davet753]

I done warranty work for several furniture stores who sold televisions. One of these stores called me one morning wanting me to go check a Quasar console they had sold to an elderly man a few weeks earlier. The problem was intermittent color.

I arrived to a small house back in the hills. The customer was a little old man in his 90's. In his living room was a new Quasar, a Zenith B&W from the 1960's, and a Zenith porthole console....every TV set he had ever owned. The new Quasar was his first color TV.

I couldn't find anything wrong with his new TV set, everything worked perfectly, but the guy kept on saying the color sometimes went out. Not being able to locate a problem, I told him I needed to bring it in to the shop for service. He said he hated to be without his TV because he watched the Andy Griffith show every afternoon.

The problem with the set: nothing. The customer was under the impression that since he paid for a color TV set everything he watched should be in color. He was not happy when I told him most of his his old Andy Griffith re-runs would still be black and white. I don't know if he ever fully understood what I was trying to tell him.