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Evening everyone, relaxing with a drink on Thanksgiving Eve. Happy Birthday @TownvilleTim ,enjoying some time off I hope.

 

jim and to everybody else.i'll start early. besides family,i'm thankful for this site and all on it.

 

My gas meter has a slight leak, this might get interesting. Wife called it in, utility company will be out within the hour. Hopefully an easy fix, my meter box is old and rusty. Good thing we are not cooking tonight and tomorrow.

 

Chernobyl is really good.

 

What provider?

 

@TownvilleTim Happy Birthday!

 

Gas leak fixed, leaky shut off valve just before meter on the line in. He was able to fix it without losing the pressure inside the house. Now let’s get cooking.

 

So.
Full blown moron today.
Back story.

Apparently when you lease a vehicle some people don’t think you need to do maintenance.

So when you don’t,,,,, shit happens.

Truck got towed in. Died on turnpike.

truck has 80,000 miles.


No where in our records has he been back for any maintenance.

So the truck does not sound good turning over.
So we pull it into the shop and pick it up in the air.

and this is what we see



So Huston we have a problem.

Here is the moron part.

we call him and tell him He blew up his motor.

and his response is.

YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT.



Number two

Guy wants his snow tires put on
And a complete recon.

This is how he packed the tires in his rav.






So the car is full of dog hair and filthy and junk through the car.
Recon refused to do it until he cleaned the car out cause they will throw everything in the dump from the car..

it was like that all day long

 

Un-believe-able

 

Thats a nice windowed block

 

Evening all

As usual ea Winter when I turn my heater on for the first few times Gizmo my cat freaks out . He will literally scream loudly going from room to room . This has happened since he was maybe 6 weeks old

 

Sadly, this is not the first time I have heard about someone driving a vehicle until it stops. People with more money than sense.

 

Many years ago when I worked at the garage, a Malibu was pulled in on the hook. The Mr of the house told the Mrs of the house to rev the engine when the alternator light would go on after starting it. Except that day it wasn’t the alternator light... That poor 3.8L had a nice new window in the side of the block...

 

FYI if anyone is interested , on Nat Geo channel right now is a series called " Drain the Ocean WWII" and is featuring the Pacific theater battles including the attack on Pearl Harbor

 

Shaking my head...
Though I will admit that when I was maintaining trees for the power company, they gave me an old Isuzu diesel to drive around. Talk about a stinking beater. The guy before me would store his wet boots on the front seat, and as evidenced by the trash, ate nothing but smoked sardines for lunch. We lived near Yosemite and I was heading home on a Friday after spending a day working in the valley. 30 miles from home I blew a hole in the motor. Determined to not spend hours waiting for a tow, I floored it and drove that sucker home. Maybe I was the Moron...but to this day I wear that as a badge of honor. Haha in fact the boss was so impressed that he gave me a brand new Mazda 2600 4x4 extra cab that I cared for and drove proudly for the next few years.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone