Well, it's only taken 20 odd years but finally, finally, high speed fibre broadband has reached this outpost in the Irish countryside. So - order placed after checking and double checking all deals. text message saying engineer will call in 3 days. Good. He did call - 9 a.m. (bloody miracle in itself) ladders out, up the telegraph pole to fix line to already installed fibre box (only been up there 6 months, but hey ho) came into house and started to get modem sorted when my phone rang. It was the engineering company (we have a separate company to install the actual fibre here not the actual provider - we don't pay extra) to ask if engineer was present. Yes, I said. Oh good she said - and then the fun started. her 'the engineer will have to drill through the house wall to connect' me 'yes, he said - that's fine. It's low down out of the way' her - great , now who will be in the house who is over 18 to oversee the drilling? me - 'well, me I live here' her - yes but you must have someone over 18' me 'I'm bloody 79 - how much older do I have to be?' In the background here the engineer pissing himself laughing. her - yes but there must be an over 18 for safetys sake' me - 'for fecks sake I am 61 years over the age of 18, I am not senile, i can walk - sort of - and talk at the same time. What more do you want? And do not tell me somebody over 18 or I swear to Chr..t I will drill your engineer up the arse'. her -'it's company policy to have an over 18 present in the property' me **!!!**!! in Greek fecking get off my phone and look that up and tell your supervisor or whoever to stop employing morons who do not understand simple English. Hung up phone. Engineer grinned and said 'great, you're right to go - you can now watch netflix etc as well as you are fully connected to sky (first time ever). He tested internet as a favour - absolutely grand, well pleased. On the way out he laughed and said, 'no names will be told, but i recorded your conversation with the office- good woman yourself we (engineers fed up with the scrotes who represent us)will have a good laugh - its about time some bugger stood up to them. Oh, and by the way - I'm quarter Greek from Athens - nice to hear my family language so explicitly spoken' Mishka Milner, over and out....