Mondays at the tire shop

[Wobbles]

Originally Posted by wmtire

I hate to point fingers, but I think that the origins to the downfall of society in general can be traced back to the exact moment my ex was born.

Feeling a little bitter today?

[D W]

Originally Posted by Restcure

I did hear a story once about a guy who took off the inspection plate and stuffed a bunch of bananas in the diff to stop the gear whine while he was selling the car. Working until the safety check, or so I was told.

Many, many years ago, as teenagers, we used this trick to quiet a noisy rear-end. Hell, we made a buck-fifty an hour at our after school jobs and couldn't afford to have them overhauled. We found out quickly that it worked great for about 100 miles or so, then the bananas would heat up. Eventually the mix will start blowing through the axle seals. The smell of hot bananas and gear oil is a smell that you will never forget!,... and it doesn't go away for long time. We all laughed then, and I can still laugh now.

[wmtire]

Originally Posted by Wobbles

Feeling a little bitter today?

No bitterness, just more easy joke fodder.

[Iwannacamp]

Originally Posted by rockfordroo

Who said "the customer is always right?"

Not me... I have been in customer service jobs since Jan/Feb 1980... NO the customer is not always right. By a long shot...they are truly getting less educated. Notice I didn't say more stupid.

[BandJCarm]

Two thoughts.

One, this is great......but it's for a couple hundred dollar customer. And it's one person. I was the sole customer service rep for one customer of our company.......but they were a six million dollar a month customer! If they called and said "I want a blue phone that hovers over the desk at one foot wirelessly, and I want it in 2 days", my job was to get it for them in 4 hours. I learned the meaning of the words "expedite" and "escalate" quickly.

Two, this is all an American issue apparently. When we got orders that required work in another country (and we got them all the time), ANY other country, they did not expedite, and they did not care if you escalated. They worked a few hours a day, got done what they could, and went home. Americans worked till the job was completed. So a customer that ordered something that terminated in SomewhereElse could holler all he wanted that it was taking too long to install. It just wasn't going to be hurried. Moral? All these customers we are laughing at, we created by giving them The Moon...for a dollar.

[arpipeliner]

Please tell me #1 was not your ex wife because I would love the jokes from that encounter.

[wmtire]

Got another holiday stressed person who isn't accepting reality. This lady came in awhile ago who has hit a curb with her "newish" tires, and now has a sidewall bubble on one. She said she took it back from where she bought it and they said they couldn't warranty it, since it was driver error, and not a defect.

She then asked if we would warranty the tires, she didn't buy from us. When we told her we couldn't do that (and we didn't even sell that brand), she exclaimed "how expensive these tires were she bought" and "she would find someone else to do business with". She then left in a huff.

If I follow her "logic" then maybe Thor will do warranty work on my Forest River.

[Mr. Dan]

Originally Posted by wmtire

....

If I follow her "logic" then maybe Thor will do warranty work on my Forest River.

... even after you hit a boulder with it.

[wmtire]

Originally Posted by Mr. Dan

... even after you hit a boulder with it.

Exactly!

This one below is still one of my all time favorites concerning people refusing to accept reality:

http://www.forestriverforums.com/for...tml#post570689

[Bluepill]

Originally Posted by wmtire

Got another holiday stressed person who isn't accepting reality. This lady came in awhile ago who has hit a curb with her "newish" tires, and now has a sidewall bubble on one. She said she took it back from where she bought it and they said they couldn't warranty it, since it was driver error, and not a defect.

She then asked if we would warranty the tires, she didn't buy from us. When we told her we couldn't do that (and we didn't even sell that brand), she exclaimed "how expensive these tires were she bought" and "she would find someone else to do business with". She then left in a huff.

If I follow her "logic" then maybe Thor will do warranty work on my Forest River.

None one wants to accept responsibility for their own actions.

It's as old as The Garden of Eden.

When God confronted Adam about eating the fruit, Adam's answer was "The WOMAN that YOU gave me caused it" He literally blamed EVERYONE ELSE.

Some stuff never changes............

[Scrapper]

I just read through the "Crazy Camping Lady" thread. The part I liked was written by Mtelkman "Deep thought of the day: Crazy people are crazy."

I wonder what led him to that crazy conclusion?

[doc73]

Originally Posted by Bluepill

None one wants to accept responsibility for their own actions.

It's as old as The Garden of Eden.

When God confronted Adam about eating the fruit, Adam's answer was "The WOMAN that YOU gave me caused it" He literally blamed EVERYONE ELSE.

Some stuff never changes............

Hey at least this was the one and ONLY woman who knew what she wanted to eat!

[Wobbles]

I wonder if some future Archaeologist will be able to sift through these old threads and figure out what kind of society we were. LOL...

[wmtire]

Originally Posted by Bluepill

He literally blamed EVERYONE ELSE.

I love it. I will be using that one.

[Wobbles]

I remembered that you liked the harmonica wire tied in the engine compartment prank so much that you showed it to everybody in your shop. Here is another wire tie prank. Remind me never to go anywhere near your shop.

[dbledan]

Originally Posted by Wobbles

I remembered that you liked the harmonica wire tied in the engine compartment prank so much that you showed it to everybody in your shop. Here is another wire tie prank. Remind me never to go anywhere near your shop.

I did the harmonica trick to my brother. His old car was such a rattle trap it took him about 6wks to figure out there was a new noise.

This awsome and is next for him. I also put annyatrons in his house but it sounds like his toddler's toys so he ignored it for a month and the battery died.

I have a whistle for his exhaust I need to install as well. It's going to take some JB Weld to keep it there I think.

Please share other threads with good pranks.

[Bluepill]

Talk about INSANE PRANKS.

Back in the 1950's, fireworks dealers sold a "Joke" car bomb. It had two wires that you attached to the primary terminals of the ignition coil. When the car was started, it would create a lot of smoke. No thought to the fact that cars of that era all had lots of grease on the engine from poor sealing of gaskets and open crankcase vent systems.

I used one once, then realized the fire hazard.

Some friends put Limberger cheese on the exhaust manifolds of the bus that brought a rival school's sports team to our HS. Next day at morning assembly our whole school was given a lecture on "Good Sportsmanship".

These days the DHS black helicopters would probably swoop in and grab everyone for a trip to Gitmo.

[Mr. Dan]

Originally Posted by Wobbles

I remembered that you liked the harmonica wire tied in the engine compartment prank....

I missed "the harmonica wire tied in the engine compartment prank" and I really NEED to know!

[wmtire]

Originally Posted by Mr. Dan

I missed "the harmonica wire tied in the engine compartment prank" and I really NEED to know!

Here you go.

http://www.forestriverforums.com/for...ml#post1378666

[wmtire]

I changed the title of this post somewhat, but it still fits the topic.

Just went to get some propane cylinders refilled. They were busy this morning and there were four of us standing in line at the island where they refill the cylinders.

This guy pulls in and can't park in front of the island since there are too many trucks. So he pulls around the back of it and then comes up on the side, right behind the propane pump and where the man is refilling them, no more than six feet away. The employee stops what his is doing and tells this guy he has to turn his truck off as there is propane in the air.

The man rolls his window down and argues that his battery is dead and if he turns it off, it won't restart. The employee tells him he has to move at least 50 feet away, before be blows us all up. The dude mumbles a bunch of stuff, but we couldn't hear exactly what he was saying. He does pull off somewhat to park. The attendant goes back to refilling our cylinders.


This guy after moving his truck, then gets out to grab his cylinders and starts walking towards us all...... with


wait for it....



it's coming....



almost there....


a lit cigarette in his mouth.