REPLACEMENT WINDOWS

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with
those expensive, double-pane, energy-efficient kind. Today, I got a
call from the contractor who installed them. He complained that the
work had been completed a year ago and I still hadn't paid for them.*

Helloooo! just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am automatically stupid. So, I told him* just what his fast-talking sales guy told me last year...

... that these windows would pay for themselves in a year. Well, it's been a year, so they're paid for, I told him.

There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally hung up.
He never called back.*** I bet he felt like an idiot.