Honesty is the best policy, but it is business.

We have a TV show here in Israel, the meaning of which is that the apartment is covered with hidden cameras, after which they make some trouble, for example, in the refrigerator, dishwasher or water supply, well, something simple that is very easy and simple to repair and then call the right master and watch how he will work assessing his work by 3 parameters:
Professionalism – how accurately and quickly he understood what the problem was.
2) Honesty - how accurately and truthfully he explained to the client the essence of the problem.
3) Price - whether the fair price he demanded for the work done.
Once the work is done and the money is paid, the host, who watched the master, breaks into the apartment with cameras, operators, flashes, etc.
If the master swallowed or bended the price, then the host reports it and demands explanations, and the master realizes that he was held is put into the run and the treach and spectacle for the spectators begins.
Well, if the master has done everything clearly on all the 3 parameters, then he is praised, hugged, gifted with flowers and literacy, well, and the master lets a tear of happiness and tells us that it is his father who raised him so. Well, in general, the broadcast is quite popular and it has been broadcast at the most broadcast time of the day for many years.
A few years ago, at the very beginning of our family career, we rented an apartment with an old washing machine.
The owner of the apartment for some reason very much loved this family relic laundry machine and refused to throw it out well and we could therefore not buy a new one as this took place and had to use this antique. In this washing machine there was a whirlwind with which the washing program was displayed.
The peculiarity of this twist was that if you pressed it, heavily, it seemed to be pressed into the body of the washing machine, continued to rotate but did not include anything. I did not know about this function. Once I pulled somewhere and relying accidentally on this twist, pressed it a little, after which the washing machine did not start naturally.
Well, we conducted the standard first aid measures of the electrical device - pulled out and inserted back into the socket, checked the shields, tapped on it slightly, but naturally it did not help and the washing machine from the electrical coma we did not release.
I had to call the owner and say so and so, the washing time has come, it is time for her deserved rest, you can come and say goodbye if you want. The owner refused to surrender and decided to fight for the life of the unit until the last. He said to find the best master on the Internet, call urgently and fix it no matter how much it costs, he will pay for it all. He is the master, he decides.
I called the first master I found in Google. The master said it will be in 20 minutes. has arrived. Well, I say so and so, the infection died, let's see what, maybe there is a chance to save her. We went to the bathroom with the patient. I prepared to hear a disappointing diagnosis for our master by demonstrating how the torch rotates unsuccessfully and does not include anything, but the master, who was visible with experience and had seen such laundry at his age, mechanically pulled the pressed torch on himself. The old laundry jerk started to fill with water and rotate in the prescribed mode.
Well, I stand looking at the master and I understand that I look like a fool. He looks at me without understanding, I’m a fool, or I’m just kidding.
Suddenly he was apparently shaded by some thought and he immediately became smiling and kind.
-Look, he says, in the washing machines of this company, models that were produced from one year to another, like this one of yours, there is a protector in the form of this twist, and if you press it it will not work, but nothing terrible, you apparently did not know and now you know how you see everything very simply.
Yes, I didn’t know, thank you very much.
We get out of the bathroom and approach the door.
How much do I owe you?
Yes, that’s all nonsense, I didn’t do anything.
But you came from another city, you are relying on the challenge.
Yes not!(For some reason raising your voice and pronouncing every word as if he wanted it to be clearly heard by the neighbors behind the wall) you just made a mistake, well, with whom it is not and asking for this money is too much I think, here someone else in the fairy tale would tell you that the engine was dead or the electronics burned and would charge you for repair, and I will never do so, so I was raised...a glass of water is all I ask.
I poured him a glass of water. He stands drinking in small gloves, obviously not in a hurry and constantly looks at the door as if he is waiting for someone.
Half a glass knocked on the door. He immediately put the glass, straightened, invited his hair and began to look artificially indifferently at the ceiling of the apartment. I opened the door. There was an excited owner.
What is it?!?! Have you done it?!?! How is she?! to
While I was explaining to the owner what had happened, the master, who was not going to leave, was constantly trying to see someone on the staircase behind the semi-open door of the apartment.
How much does the challenge cost? This owner, reassuring that his cradle is still alive, turned to the master.
He said nothing, for what I was wrong he will not pay. I explained to the master the decision of a good master.
and oh! The owner looked at him gratefully and he was also apparently obscured by some thought, shut up, I live here nearby, I have a tube from the washing machine leaking a little, maybe you can see?
The master apparently already understood that this is not a television show, but I really stumbled with a twist and the famous Israeli host will not come with flowers and he will not be shown to the whole country...
The master, with a slightly upset sight, gathered his tools and followed the master.
The next day a call. The owner.
“Listen to Plotkin, remember yesterday’s master?
I remember
He didn’t take anything from you, right?
correctly
Have you refused to take the challenge?
-Aga
– Strange... and he just clamped a hole in the isolated... for 500 shekels...