Dumb or Dumber ...

I would like to share one story with you ...

One day, as a good citizen, I brought my lawn mower for a regular service to a repair shop, ready to spend my money at a small local business. When the job was complete, I asked my son to go and pick up the lawnmower. Thirty minutes later he rang me and sounded very frustrated: "They are trying to give me someone else's mower!".

I asked him to give the phone to our "service supplier" who immediately assured me: "Of course it's your lawnmower, mate, because it has a tag with your name on it!"

But, I was not smart enough to understand why my "precious" garden tool that I have regularly used for over 9 years suddenly changed its colour to blue (it used to be red) in just one week.

I was also assured that I couldn't have had a red lawnmower for so many years: "It was definitely always blue and, secondly, the most "obvious" reason was that VICTA did not manufacture blue lawnmowers 9 years ago". So I could not have owned the lawnmower for 9 years.

Yes, that's why my lawnmower couldn't be red, and I simply could not have had a chance to buy a blue one 9 years ago. Unless, of course, I purchased a time machine beforehand with the one and only purpose to go back to the future in the past to buy the "Future Lawn Mover" from VICTA, because I had to have the blue one.

Anyway, due to being provided with a newer version of my old lawnmower, I gladly accepted it. But, please don't become too relaxed here. Our kind "service" provider from the future in the past rang me to announce that HE was right, but there had been a terrible hurricane which had blown away all the tags and mine appeared on the blue lawnmower which my son wrongly picked up. From all the dramas we caused to this guy and his business I now understood - it was all our and the hurricane's fault.

But the question is still with me: "What the heck did I pay for? For my (red) mower service, for someone else's mower (blue) service, or for some other mower from the future's (invisible) service?"

Please help me find an answer for my philosophical question.

Have a great day. Take care of yourselves and your clients.