Warranty

In business and legal transactions, a warranty is an assurance by one party to the other party that certain facts or conditions are true or will happen; the other party is permitted to rely on that assurance and seek some type of remedy if it is not true or followed.

I bought an electric kettle when I finally made the big switch from Umoja in Nairobi to Ongata Rongai in Kajiado county. I keep telling the guys in church (Deliverance Church Ongata Rongai) that I am a missionary from Nairobi to Kajiado but that joke is lost on some people...I digress, back to the electric kettle.
The kettle was perhaps the most used of all electric items in the house, and served well especially in the morning when I had to boil water for use in the bathroom. Yes, you get it, I take warm baths, what the Germans would call warm-duscher. I also had many people coming into and leaving my house and soon the kettle was not working anymore.

To my utter consternation, I have discovered that the music system is not as good as it was when first purchased and I am guessing that the many hands that fiddled with it have something to do with that unpleasant development. Some of the speakers in the surround system are not working, but the problem is not the speakers, rather the channels that connect them to the main player.

I recently had the electric kettle returned to the shop and they got the defective parts replaced and it seems I will soon have to do the same withe the music system. The repair of the kettle cost me nothing, literally, because there is a warranty that covers the item for a period of upto one year. I am so glad I took the extra time to fill in those repititive forms, haven't they ever heard of carbon paper? Now the music system has to go back and that too has a warranty, yeah! I shudder at the thought of the stress and expense of having to take it to a local fundi (repairman). Those guys would probably do worse damage to it and charge me the price of a fatted calf to get it back.

Our lives are irreplacable though.....there is hope for a man as long as he is alive, but once the appointment with death comes, then there is no more. We have to make do with what we have, utilising each day well, not counting the days but making the days count. Even a living dog is bette than a dead lion (Ecclesiastes 9:4). Wherever we find ourselves in life, with the resources at our disposal and the people around us....we have the opportunity to make every day memorable...before we expire, for we cannot be replaced, not with a better or worse model.

We are all the world has, the only version of ourselves in all eternity. Value yourself, discover your purpose, work at your field of calling, influence your generation....Keep Hope Alive...