O/T: The kind of folks I work with...

[pilotlars at yahoo.com (Lars Bruchmann)]

harmonic balancer??  does my radio have one???  haha. 
the car pulling to the right is a result of the crown
of the road: it's a deliberate feature of roads,
designed to conduct water to the edge of the road. 
subsiquently, it also conducts sleeping drivers into
the ditch.  
--- David Utley <fahrvegnugen@cox.net> wrote:

> Okay, this was too stupid not to share and since the
> list is slow...
> 
> I just heard a story about one of the service
> writers here, we have four and -none- of them are
> mechanical at all...  First, a little background on
> this fella.  He has been with the company at least
> 12 to 13 years.  First, he was a car salesman. 
> Next, he was a finance manager.  Then he was new car
> manager over Kia.  NOW, he is a service writer (he
> is too good an ass-kisser to be fired, I s'pose). 
> Okay, he was consoling a customer about their car
> pulling to the right...  He replied, " Oh, that is a
> feature of VWs, that's deliberate.  They do that so
> that if you fall asleep, it will go off the road
> instead of into traffic..."  Okay, with that logic,
> then the sludging problems with the 1.8Ts in the
> Passat is actually a feature that stops the car from
> over-revving, right?  (banging head)...
> 
> Okay, another story...  One of the other service
> writers wrote a ticket with the line description as
> follows:  'Customer states there is a noise from the
> harmonic balancer, check radio and replace as
> necessary..."  Like I said, they are not
> mechanical...
> 
> Have a good day today...
> 
> David  <---  Doing time in the stupid house, yo...
> 
> Chrome may make it bling, but it don't make the
> engine sing...
> 
> 
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