In a message dated 9/16/05 11:43:32 PM, guskersthecat@YAHOO.COM writes: << As usual, this time the elderly German fellow running the shop (been in the business all his life ???) insisted that there was nothing wrong with it. >> Typical. It must have something to do with whatever they put in the water over there. I've become conditioned to cringe if I hear a thick German (or Austrian) accent whenever I have to resolve a problem with a piece of equipment made in der Mudderland. If you think a mechanic is tough, try dealing with a German engineer. He may certainly be sharp, but no matter how patently obvious a mechanical screw up is, he accepts the realities of the situation only after he hears the hammer start to fall on the gun you are holding to his head. George |
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