Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter covered it also in their "Long Earth" series of books.

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PayPal can go suck a bag of dicks.

They cancelled the first subscription as a "courtesy" despite my request to retain it. I suspect they were hooked up with eNay for too long & have forgotten how to think straight.

I get up to answer the iPhone. A wrong number. Silly cow on the other end says she'll try again. Which she then did. By calling me again. "I said loudly & brusquely "You've still got the wrong number! Try again!"
Then blocked her number immediately because she clearly has the brains of a gnat and will otherwise become a serial offender.

Dear HPSupport, this 'Laser Jet' you sold me can neither fly nor shoot lasers. If anything, I'd say it's more like a 'Printer'. Not happy.

Now I'm off my feet and laying on my bed, my sore back is feeling much better. Now, if I could just find that hot water bottle, even better relief will eventuate.

It will.

I have just set up two recurring annual payments. Something went askew with PayPal & the repeated the single one I authorised.

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Just a quick heads-up: PayPal goofed somehow, two US$15 subscriptions were processed, so I'm disputing the second one with PayPal.

Just checked some records. The Men's Shed group bought it's 21.5-in iMac on the 2nd Saturday of October 2015. The corresponding day this year is only two days away. Hard to believe I've swearing at it every week for a year!