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Yahzi
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 Posted - 08/12/2002 : 13:47:03
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I just wanted to relate this laundry-related tale I heard from a washing machine repairman.
He got a call to go fix someone's dryer. The man said the dryer had worked fine for the last two years (since he bought it new from the store), but the last 3 weeks it just didn't seem to get the clothes dry.
So our repairman went and looked over the machine. Then he said to the customer, "Sir, this is a gas dryer."
"No it isn't, it's electric," replied the customer. "See, here's the cord where you plug it in."
The problem, of course, is that it wasn't hooked up to the gas (why would it be, if the owner thought it was electric?).
The real joke here is not that a customer was so dumb he bought a gas dryer and thought it was electric. The joke is, it worked for TWO YEARS!
One has to wonder: what changed in the last 3 weeks that the guy noticed his dryer suddenly wasn't working?
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
1447 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2002 : 15:00:06 [Permalink]
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One has to wonder: what does the Laundry Ball have to do with your story?
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I am the storm
Sent to wake you from your dreams
Show me your scorn
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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 08/12/2002 : 17:24:53 [Permalink]
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Back in the 70's a friend in Manhattan asked me to look at her air conditioner. She had bought it off a guy on the street and it had worked fine the year before and most of that summer.
When I took the front off it was an empty box with only the tiny vent fan attached directly to the on /off switch. She swore that it had worked fine up until a week before. The cover screws were rusted and hadn't been opened in quite some time.
The seems to be a placebo effect with appliances as well as drugs.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ---Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860 |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 08/12/2002 : 18:16:20 [Permalink]
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Back in the 70's a friend in Manhattan asked me to look at her air conditioner. She had bought it off a guy on the street and it had worked fine the year before and most of that summer.
When I took the front off it was an empty box with only the tiny vent fan attached directly to the on /off switch. She swore that it had worked fine up until a week before. The cover screws were rusted and hadn't been opened in quite some time.
The seems to be a placebo effect with appliances as well as drugs.
Thanks Slater, I guess that explains it as well as I was going to. I thought Yahzis story was hilarious.
Also reminds me of a story that Vin (Steve McQueen) told, I forget if he was talking to Calvera or Chris, probably Chris, in my most favorite movie 'The Magnificent 7', about this guy who decides to take off all his clothes and jump into some catus, when he was asked why he did that, he said 'it seemed like a good idea at the time'.
I guess that means people don't think ahead, I think it means, people don't think at all!
placebos don't only work with drugs and appliances, people are sheep and easily lead. I still can't understand why. But it makes for some amusing situations.
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*All lives are movie settings, it's what channel you're on that counts. Zatikia
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