Beware when buying anything from Argos stores this christmas

Written by Nicholas Witham


Beware when buying anything from Argos stores this christmas you might get more than you bargined for!

Whilst on our family holiday in Cornwall, July 2002, my wife purchased a digital camera from Argos StorePenzance and was givenrepparttar wrong item by sales staff Shirley Salmon and Deborah Williams at that store. My wife had payed for a £549.99 Fuji digital camera but was given a Fuji Instamatic camera worth only £29.99. Whenrepparttar 101738 sales staff were confrounted with this they apologised and exchangedrepparttar 101739 item. The next day we were both extremly shocked when we were arrested byrepparttar 101740 police and questioned by Detective Constable Deborah Hunt from Falmouth CID. We had been wrongly accused by Argos stores of theft by Deception. Argos stores claimed that we obtained two £549.99 Fuji digital cameras and only paid for one! Our two young daughters were put underrepparttar 101741 supervision of social services, causing them (and myself and my wife) great distress and anxiety, while we were detained and repeatedly questioned by police. The police had raided our car and seized

THE I'LL TRY ANYTHING ATTITUDE

Written by Nicholas Ohajianya


I was once passing along a street, and on one ofrepparttar windows of a shop which deals on second hand goods, make no attempt to specialize on a particular brand of products. The owner prefers to accumulate more goods and will accept almost any article be it dirty, damaged or practically useless if he thinks he can sell it.

There is one type of individual who very much resemblesrepparttar 101737 "I will buy anything inrepparttar 101738 shop". He has an "I’ll try anything attitude" towards life, and he possesses a "junk shop" mind. He has never learned to specialize on a particular brand of products. He has just gathered in little bits of knowledge here and there, regardless of whether they are any real use to him. He has cluttered up his mind with unwanted scraps of information, allowing them to accumulate untilrepparttar 101739 task of sorting them out and getting rid ofrepparttar 101740 rubbish proves too great. And for all that, he believes he is a remarkably versatile fellow. He really believes that he can try his hand on anything because he has dabbled in everything. But there lurksrepparttar 101741 danger. The dabbler’ never develops. He never knows enough to be able to apply his knowledge usefully. He knows too little of too many things to ever be really confident of success in one.

A person with an ‘I’ll try anything complex" is not likerepparttar 101742 man who, when asked if he could drive a car, replied, ‘I don’t know, I have never really tried. Torepparttar 101743 person with a junk-shop mentality, many things seem simple because he or she only touchesrepparttar 101744 surface. Such people never delve deeply into anything, never probe a problem, or interest themselves in anything long enough to learn very much about it. Lack of knowledge and not lack of opportunity isrepparttar 101745 chief enemy of progress.

A man applied forrepparttar 101746 position of typewriter mechanic. He was a motor engineer. He knew all about cars. He could take down an engine and assemble it again with all its parts in position. But he had never taken down a typewriter. In fact, he had never used a typewriter. But he would soon get into it, he said.

A girl applied forrepparttar 101747 post of shorthand typist. Efficiency and experience wererepparttar 101748 requirements stated inrepparttar 101749 advertisement. She had been a receptionist. The only qualification she had to offer were sound sweet voice and a pleasing appearance, but she wanted a change and thought she could soon pick up typing and shorthand.

There are people who have succeeded in a variety of jobs, but they arerepparttar 101750 exceptions. They have bluffed others into giving them jobs by their keen business acumen, or purely on their personality; they have held on their jobs and even shown creditable performance untilrepparttar 101751 wanderlust made them restive. They just walked out and walked into another job. To such folks, life is, and always will be an adventure. Finding new interests isrepparttar 101752 very essence of their existence. But they don’t dabble. In whatever they do, whether they are keeping watch in some lonely outpost, or collecting steel for a steel company or serving in a restaurant, they take their work seriously, gaining experience in a variety of jobs and in a multitude of ways.

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