[jnieman]

Here's something interesting. We had a local company come out this past week because we wanted a new water softener installed as the one we currently had was a rental. The salesman was told not to go through his pitch about the whole house filter because I knew what I wanted, just a water softener. He started in about it anyway and said it was $4600. I was so mad I almost threw him out. I guess he had been doing it so long he didn't know how to get to what I wanted without his pitch. Then he says well at the very least you would want the chlorine remover filter because the Villages dump all kinds of chlorine in your water and people complain about how it makes them itchy and red and allergies too. Do you get red and itchy? I said that's interesting. Let's test the water for the chlorine. He said oh, well just believe me there is a ton of it. You can buy this chlorine filter added to your water softener for $995 but just today if you buy it, it will be $795. I said oh, well hang on a second and I went out to my spa and got my water testing kit and tested our sink water for chlorine. Guess what. NONE. No chlorine in our water. He said I have never ran across anyone in 30 years who had their own chlorine tester.