I had a neighbor whose wife totally controlled the house, and she didn't like A/C, so they were sweating all summer, she didn't think color TV's were "perfected" yet (This was into the late 60's), so they had a bad looking, slightly blurry, black and white console set that gave me a headache watching it. They came over one night, not long after we had just bought our new RCA 23" set to replace the older one that moved to my parent's bedroom after the GE B&W set died. The neighbor woman complained that the colors were wrong (They were damn good, actually), and that "Our TV looks better". The hubby, buzzed on beer, looked at her like she was insane. Her being insane was a matter of opinion, but she would have gotten my vote.
A week or so later, her mom had a stroke, and she went back to wherever she came from to take care of her, etc. The neighbor calls up my dad, who sold TV's, and said, "If you can get me the best 23" you've got, by Friday, I want it!". He got it the next day, and was thrilled. When the Mrs came back, she went ballistic, called my dad and demanded he take it back, and give her back her old TV, in the dumpster or in the back of the garbage truck at that point. My dad told her he sold it to "Tom", and Tom would have to return it, but her TV was gone anyway.
We could hear them yelling and screaming at each other all day, but they kept the set, and when her mom died a few months later, and she went back home again for the funeral, etc, a truck appeared from one of the local heating and cooling contractors, and A/C was soon installed. Anytime she left, he just did whatever he wanted to, or bought whatever he wanted, and took the heat when she came back. He found out a few years later that I was selling stereo compnents, and plopped a thou on a nice Kenwood receiver, a Dual 1229 turntable, with a Shure V15X cartridge, a Technics cassette deck, and a pair of speakers, I can't remember what they were, smaller booksheves of some kind when she went to Florida for some reason for a week.
When she came back home, I was about to get into my car, when she appeared in my garage, and started yelling at me. I had no use for her really, and when she demanded I take it all back, I said, "There's a 25% restocking fee for non-defective items!". I thought she was about to hit me, but she stomped back home, where she screamed at him all day. He really loved that stereo. Every year, he had me put a new stylus in, even if it didn't need it, and I had to do it with her glaring at me the whole time. Most of the time, the old one was fine, and I put it in my V15 and used it until the next free one came along.
I'm kind of glad that he outlived her by almost 25 years now, and go remarried to a non witch wife, who takes good care of him, and doesn't scream at him. The Kenwood receiver still works, and so does the 1229.
