Walt!
You should be chatting up more pretty young women!... It's seems to have
goodKarma on you! :-)
Hmmm... Wonder what would have happened to that CF card if you had of taken
photos of the pretty lady though?...
Cheers Adam
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From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] My continuing adventures
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:58:03 +0000
>If it ain't one thing, then it's another'n. I decided while it was still
cool this morning to give the SSR a quick bath to remove the 10 days' worth
of road grime from our vacation. While cleaning out the inside, I came
across the work order for the oil change I had the dealer do just before we
left. Much to my horror, I saw that the bill was for $33, not the $77 it
should have been, since the LS2 6L V-8 is supposed to have Mobil-1 synthetic
oil, not regular ol' dinosaur juice. We put nearly 1700 miles on the truck
on this trip, and I was about to have a stroke, contemplating the possible
consequences and potential engine damage.
>
>And I was mad at myself, too, because I remembered quite well that when I
was in line at the cashier's window to pay for the oil change, I was
chattingup this cute young blonde wearing shorts and a halter top less than
half my age, so when presented with the bill, I just handed over a credit
card, signed the slip, and kept playing dirty old man and never once glanced
at the paperwork.
>
>So, I rolled into the dealer's service department this morning and raised
some hell. The idiot service rep still didn't know that this engine, which
is the basic Corvette engine, needs synthetic oil, even despite the fact the
oil filler cap plainly says "Mobil 1 5W-30" in bright red, white and blue.
>
>The service manager quickly got involved and the truck was immediately
takenback for a proper oil change. Just as the last few drops were draining
out of the crankcase, the tech who had done the oil change two weeks ago
cameover, curious about why it was back so soon for another change and with
all these people standing around watching. (The mechanics remember these
vehicles since they are relatively rare -- only 24,000 ever made -- much
morethan they remember that Caprice with the strange smell or the Suburban
with Cheerios stuck to the seats. And mine is the only one this dealership
ever sold with the black and silver two-tone paint job.)
>
>Anyway, to make a long story short, when told of the situation, the tech
said, "Yeah, I saw they wrote it wrong, but that don't mean I did it wrong.
Writin' it up ain't my job. My job's doin' it right, and I put in Mobil 1
5-30, just like it says on the filler tube cap."
>
>I've been around a long time, and that was the first time in my life I
almost kissed a guy. I quickly got control of myself, though, and just
shookhis hand and thanked him for knowing his job. And so did the service
manager, who said I get my next two oil changes, with the correct oil
guaranteed, for free.
>
>Now I'm going to see about getting the vacation pictures off the CF cards
this afternoon. I wonder what can go wrong with that. :-[
>
>Walt
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from
>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>Edward Weston
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