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Re: Master mechanic at it again, 10 times longer than it should

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Subject: Re: Master mechanic at it again, 10 times longer than it should
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair@exis.net>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:34:35 -0400
At 01:45 PM 5/27/02 -0700, Bradley D Richardson wrote:

>Well, the master mechanic was at it again today.  Why does everything
>take me ten times longer than it should?  Oh well, at least it's fixed.
>
>On our Toyota Camry, the kids have been complaining that one of the rear
>doors, you couldn't open it from the inside.  It worked from the outside,
>so I knew it couldn't be to bad.  Finally, after several weeks, I
>attacked it today.  Took the inside of the door off, and of course that
>took a while.  I'm looking at the mechanism, and except for something
>being a little out of alignment, it all seemed it should work.  Except,
>no visible adjustment on this "fork".  Following the other part back to
>it's beginning, what did I find?  On the side of the door, A DAMNED CHILD
>DOOR LOCK GIZMO!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Ahhhhhhhhhh.  Put it all back together.  Everything works, but it took me
>probably a total of an hour, for something that should have taken 10
>seconds.
>
>Moral of the story?  I get 'em fixed, but don't pay me by the hour.

Brad,

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one to do things like that! :)

John



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