A bit like the doctor who met a solicitor at a party and remarked that he was plagued by people asking for free medical advice and how did the solicitor cope with the same.
"Easy I do as I am now doing and making out a bill for £50. You can pay me now or have a month credit."
This is a true and well known story regarding a local GP. He continued to practice into his 80s and was well-known for being super tight with money and trying to get as much as possible at all times. I do remember he used to attend my granny and was a cantankerous old so and so.
Many years ago his car wouldn't start and he called a local mechanic to look at it. When the mechanic had sorted the car, he asked the doctor for a fiver. At the time, the doctor's consulting fee was a pound. The doctor said a charge of a fiver was outrageous. The mechanic told him that when he come to see the doctor a few weeks earlier, he had come to the surgery and told the doctor what the problem was and got sent out to the pharmacy to buy his own medicine. In contrast, he as a mechanic had to come out to look at the car at the doctor's house, had to spend time working out what was wrong with it, went to get parts, came back and fitted them and tuned the car and left it running perfectly. He told the doctor that if ten minutes of your time is worth a pound, surely a whole morning of my time is worth a fiver.
Just over 20 miles in total.
