Google for the single woman

Madam – This morning I raise my pen to Gaatzi Goobi! Everybody echoes business is so bad, but once business is received, what do they do?

An about five grand vehicle repair job becomes a full 11 two months later, and on delivery, a flat tyre and unwashed vehicle is received.

Another repairer just call your friend to collect your vehicle without a price. When you phone them, they say they still have to work out a price.

My big favourite store in the mall ordered me a pair of shoes mid-February. The end of February I went there and they located a pair, said it was on its way and they would SMS. I am still barefoot.

Ordering flooring also seems to be a major problem. You start with three rooms and end up with two rooms with a price escalation of 40 per cent for the same rand value and on the day before they need to start, the calculations were incorrect and the price increases again –then you cancel.

Your order helium-filled balloons to be collected at 9.30am (payment has to be done in advance) and when you arrive at 9.45am, everybody scatters to locate the person to start the job, so you have to leave and come back later.

There are the people who absolutely bowl you over with service and assistance and restore you faith in service again and those are the people who are never thanked –so thank you for converting my 1982 shop card to a bar-coded one. Thanks for being as ecstatic as I on my big discount on my watch. Thanks for getting the last two voile curtains for me from the top shelf just before closing time and calling me Tannie with such endearment! And the flooring was done to all three rooms within my budget.

And to all my fellow single women out here – just because we lost our husbands, loved ones or never had a man somewhere in our lives, we have not lost our intelligence and for the rest there is “how to on Google”.

An unapologetically strong woman