Perhaps you can't blame student landlords for struggling with the basics of wire replacements and working appliances. After all, they struggle enough with getting their phone to work, an invention that's been around since 1876. At least, they must not understand how it works. They never answer it when you ring them. Which, coincidentally, always seems to be when you have something to complain about, or something that needs fixing, or just a question about the heating works. Texts are ignored, voice mail messages presumably erased without checking. Butter fingers! They just don't know how these fancy smartphones work! What's weirdest of all is that, despite their telephony dyspraxia, they still manage to make it work long enough to send you multiple threatening messages and make angry calls when you haven't paid your rent immediately on the date you were supposed to, because the loan's not come in on time or the standing order's messing up. Funny, eh.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
