It must be true. I heard it on the radio!

“Why won’t a plumber tell me how much they charge to unclog my drain over the phone?” a woman asked in a commercial I recently heard on the radio.

Wow!  What a revolutionary breakthrough!  Where have I been?  I had no idea drains can be unclogged remotely! And here I continue to pay a service call for a plumber to come to the house.

I wonder if that works with both land lines and cell phones.

Then again, I probably shouldn’t get too excited.  This likely is an example of the writer of the commercial making a grammatical error by misplacing the prepositional phrase “over the phone.”  Too bad.  Remote unclogging.  It’s a novel concept!

This statement in question is in the same commercial that touts the business as “the smell-good plumber.”

That got me thinking.  Have I ever been close enough to a plumber I’ve hired to know if he smelled good or bad?  No.  Nothing comes to mind.  Surely, I would have noticed.  I have an excellent sense of smell.

Apparently, I’ve been lucky.  Smell-bad plumbers must be a serious problem if a company’s marketing advantage is to use the term smell-good in its tag line.

Then again, my plumbing problems could have been smellier than the plumbers who corrected them, so that’s why I didn’t notice.

I was going to say what a silly slogan for a company.  But, what was I thinking?  This IS the plumbing company that unclogs drains over the phone.  It makes perfect sense the plumbers don’t smell…bad, that is.

Frankly, how a plumber smells is low on my list of ‘must haves.’  My number one criterion is that the plumber shows up…within that five-hour window they give themselves, of course.  And then I want good service…someone who can fix my problem correctly and for a price that doesn’t give me a coronary.

However, in the future, I will be mindful that if he smells good, too, that’s a bonus.

And dare I ask him what toilet water he uses?

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