[elky] Re: A day when things went right (for a change)
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:40:30 -0500
So close.... About 5 hours or so away. I have to work the next 6 days in a
row, or I would convince to to get a rental for a visit.
JC
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:23 PM, <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That was a really good day. I got a $100 refund for our trip to
> dominican republic cause of issues...
>
> Well in cleveland and going to sleep finally.
>
> Robert Adams
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Buck
> Sent: 10/24/2011, 9:44 PM
> To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [elky] A day when things went right (for a change)
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> Boy, am I tired. It's been a long day (14 hours so far) and it ain't
> over, but in what seems to be a change from the norm, things went right
> today. Here's the list:
>
> I finally got Expedia to arrange for a refund of the 2 night's lodging
> in Wendover that I left early when World Finals was rained out:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2011/05-wf/Welcome.html (there's a
> caption on every page to explain what went on as far as the racing and
> the Burb's distributor's untimely demise.) I had to be tenacious about
> it before I got it...at first they didn't want to refund anything, then
> the hotel manager said it was their policy to refund only 1 out of 2
> nights, but when I explained that my German friend checked out at
> exactly the same time I did and got a full cash refund, the motel owner
> finally ran out of excuses and authorized the full refund. Btw...if you
> come to the salt flats, avoid the Motel 6 like the plague. The Knight's
> Inn is much better. Jim can explain about the cockroach he found in his
> room earlier in the year....ohh...and that was the place where the owner
> doesn't turn the heat on for the rooms until November. Hell, I dunno if
> he's noticed, but Wendover is in the high desert and has the same
> climate as Salt Lake City...except for our Wasatch mountains directly to
> the east of the SL valley. I started turning on my heater before I left
> for WF. But then I'm kinda cold-blooded.
>
> Moving right along, I got Moon Equipment's refund of the deposit for the
> Moon Disc mounting hardware welding jig.
>
> I took the junkyard driveshaft in and had the people at GRS Drivelines
> replace the slip joint and rear u-joint. That was done in about 6
> hours. It cost about half of what had been refunded to me, so that
> wasn't too bad. It was pretty good, as a matter of fact.
>
> While I was waiting for that to be done, I was able to fix the Beater
> Camaro's horn button with the spring from a ball-point pen. Seems that
> whoever installed the aftermarket wheel (looks sorta like a 60s-era Cal
> Custom job) neglected to put the spring in the electrical contact do-dad
> that has the wire that connects to the grounding plate the center cap
> snaps onto. Confused? Me, too...but it was a no-cost repair of
> something that was a case of (as Jim H likes to say) "the dreadin was
> worse than the doin." Now I just need to get Safety and Emissions
> Inspection and I can get a real live license plate for it. That one may
> not be so easy.
>
> Finally (and this is rather ponderous) I took the "flexible flyer"
> trailer ramps back to the place I got 'em and although it also took some
> rather tenacious discussion with the parts counter people (the first guy
> was Mexican and we definitely had a "failure to communicate") I got a
> result that I'm very satisfied with. Here's what happened. When the
> folks at Henderson Wheel (a very well-established place for just about
> anything to do with wheels, spindles, bearings, trailers and a whole
> buncha other stuff) told me that they had a pair of 4400 pound-rated
> ramps, but they'd have to be brought in from one of their other stores
> (in Orem, Ut...the joke about that goes, "what's the difference between
> Orem and yogurt?" Answer: "Yogurt has culture." <G>) they did just
> exactly that. They had a pair of ramps brought north by their courier
> and I picked 'em up the next day. But what they gave me isn't what I
> paid for, nor was it what they'd told me I was buying. Seems the
> counter guy (experienced, knowledgeable and ok in my book) was off by a
> single digit in the part number and the ones he gave me...well, all the
> labeling was in French and when I unlimbered my high school (and
> Moroccan) French skills, I saw that it said, "Do not exceed 500kg on
> ramps." That's 1100 pounds, exactly 1/4 of the 4400 pound-rated ramps I
> supposedly bought. They were intended for use with garden tractors or
> maybe ATVs or snowmobiles. Fail. Big time fail.
>
> In an almost spooky way, the ramps that I'd paid for and they'd had
> brought in by courier were right by the door behind the counter. They
> apologized for handing me the wrong ramps and handed me the right ones.
> Here's a shot of 'em still in their packing along with the
> installation-ready driveshaft:
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> Seeing what I should have had in the first place, there's no way that
> the first set could have done the job of what I picked up today. These
> are about twice as wide and twice as thick. Now I know why the others
> bent.
>
> Finally, I got in touch with a guy who wants a CD of photos (a new
> customer) and he tells me he'll be making a contribution to my website
> as payment for 'em.
>
> I can't remember a day in the recent past (hell, I can't remember
> breakfast) where so many things have gone right. Yanno, I think I
> prolly otta go to bed before I screw something up. :) No...I have
> another 120 files to edit from the car show I shot last Saturday. But I
> can handle that.
>
> r
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