Lost but not forgotten.

Well, its seems like I got lost, but not really. I have been busy though. I have a new position with a different business group in the Incredible Large Corporation that I work for. This is a happy happy joy joy moment! So I had to spend a lot of time getting ready for the big job move. Hopefully I will get back to the schedule of once a week updates with funny links....maybe....new job is a touch busier than the old job so we will see. I mean, you wouldn't expect me to update from home or anything....would you???

I was going to post about my car issues but a friend thought I should just publish the chat transcript with him...so I will...

ME... So, I took my car in last wednesday to have the fuel pump replaced. It was ready mid Thursday morning but with schedules I was able to pick it up till Friday morning. Friday the check engine light comes on again. This I figured was due to a loose gas cap, thats what lead to the discovery of the bad fuel pump. So I drive it home friday night, tighten the gas cap and tell Kerrie to drive it. Light stays on. This morning I tell Kerrie I will call the dealerhip from work. I then drive to Costco to get gas.
Friend of Me... uh oh
ME... So there I am at Cosco. Pumping fuel in the vehicle, cleaning empty pop bottles out of my car and this guy pulls around and yells, " Hey! Is that gas leaking out of your car?" Wha? I look around, I don't see any gas...walk around the car and HOLY SH*T THERE IS AN F'N LAKE OF GAS!!!... 9.9 gallons to be exact. So I shut the pump off, the gas attendent goes to work on the spill and I look under the car and make a deduction. When they replaced the fuel pump they have to disconnect the gas tank because the fuel pump is IN the tank. When they put the car back together they forgot to connect the filler tube back up to the gas tank. This realisation elevates me to a level of pissed off that I did not know was obtainable at that hour of the morning on a Monday. Usually I have to work most of a day to get to that level.
Friend of Me... FU&*!
ME... So I drive the car back to the dealer, and holding on to my temper my the slimmest of threads, explain the issue to the " service representative" who almost swallows his tongue. Within 30 minutes I have my car back, line reconnected and a full tank of gas provided by the freindly service department at Coon Rapids Chrysler. So....How was your morning?
Friend of Me... LOL
Friend of Me... I just read this to Another friend of Me.
Friend of Me... Dude I am so proud of you for not going postal on the dealership with a BFG
Friend of Me... Man I miss you, your stories are even more fun when you're telling them in person.
ME... I was so frikkin mad I was shaking. If I had lost my temper I would have punched the guy. Wasn't really his fault, but he was on the front lines and he did eveything just right. Avoided eye contact, spoke in soothing tones, no sudden movements....
ME... I am still pissed.
Friend of Me... I bet
ME... Nothing quite like realising that you have been driving around in a potential bomb for three days.
Friend of Me... I'm sure you were like an uncaged starved tiger
ME... Yeah, He was definelty in the lions den.
Friend of Me... Yeah, that is um...I have noe response to that
ME... Bit unnerving really...
Friend of Me... at least
ME... I was just waiting for them to bring me a bill. They didn't, but I was ready to go nuclear. Warhead was armed. We were at DefCon 5 and the bombers were in the air.
Friend of Me... LOL
Friend of Me... I'm crying over hear
Friend of Me... here
ME... I mean, I am no mechanic, but I would have thought somebody would have thought to hook the filler line back to the MF'n fuel tank. For christ sake the Oil Change guy could have figured that one out and he doesn't have an 8th grade education, much less the advance training possesed by an "ASE Certified" mechanic working at a "5 STAR" dealership!!! I hope they send me a survey....Commie ass riders!!!
Friend of Me... LOL
ME... I may right a letter....Hell, I may right two!


To heck with the letter. I am posting it to the blog!!!