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Re: A shop I will never visit



At 13:36 9/24/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello 'roccans
>
>I recently had someone put a business card under my windshield wiper.  It was 
>for a shop that dealt in Volkswagens, and other Germ. imports.  Well, I took 
>one look at the card and then laughed.  They spelled Volkswagen wrong.
>"Volkswagon" 
>as if they are little rattletrap toy wagons.  I was kind of miffed.  Any shop 
>that pays this little attention to detail can work on someone else's car 
>thankyouverymuch.  And my car runs perfectly, and the body looks pretty good 
>too.  Just because it's old dosen't mean it's broken and needs 1000000$ worth 
>of work.  A little persnickety, but I love my car tremendously.  I won't name 
>the shop because they were nice enough to care about putting cards out to 
>potential customers, and apparently liked my car :-)
>
>So there's my story, thank you for listening.
>Chad Ptasinski

In my experience, this could be the printer's mistake - most of them don't
know how to spell 'Karmann' either, even if you write it out for them.
Still, if it was me, I would insist on proper spelling...


Chuck Kuecker

ckuecker@mcs.net

'83 Scirocco (single wiper!!)
'58 Ghia Convert
'75 Bug (getting better)
'67 Bug
'63 Bug (for sale)
'91 Vanagon


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