A non work tangent
Many years ago looking from now, ago a neighbour asked a favour to have a quick look before asking someone else to repair her VHS.
Not being harsh, I had made it clear that I would do quick fixes, but not messing in depth with domestic VTR`s out of a work environment, Hours even days previously lost out of kindness, where a repair shop would have sucked teeth and gone " going to be pricey, sure you wnat it done? buy another one"
I did learn eventually..
She had all one make of kit it was midmarket, either Sony, Tosh or pana or......
Thsere was buggered if i know error code on switch on, took the lid off and found a cd wedged on top of the spools .
The matching cd player was one of those non-tray things that you poke it in through brushes and hope..
4 year old daughter wanted to play some music and had made an understandable mistake.about which unit to use, having succeeded before with Daddy.
Shared with colleagues at the time and 3 other instances with nippers doing simlar.
(ankle biter is pre war east endian for toddlers and around that age and appears likely to be the origin of nipper)