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Old 07-08-2009, 02:15 AM   #27 (permalink)
metroschultz
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It is unsafe. I want a bumper sticker for my Metro that says;
"Safety is for Sissies"
But you are a big boy now, make your own decisions. If you are comfortable with it, I am not going to tell you not to do it. (that's the Gubmints job)
I will however, relate a story of when I was younger and just started my career as an auto tech.

Summer,
1978,
I was working as the Mechanic Trainee for an Esso (yes that is the correct spelling) station in Richmond VA.
A "Full Service" service station.
We had a regular customer who fancied himself a practical joker.
We also had a new boy working the pumps, kid just over 16 years old.
Customer comes in (Quite Swiftly)with is relatively new Corvette.
Tells the kid'
"Fill 'er up with premium, check the fluids and...........
My brakes were squeaking earlier, give 'em a shot of WD40, would Ya?"
(Do you see where this is going yet?)
So the kid does just that, I don't know how much he used, definitely used too much.
Customer finishes his purchase, get in the car and takes off like a bat out of he!!. Hits the brakes at the edge of the road and..................
....................NOTHING................
he crosses four lanes of traffic,
cars whizzing by,
every one else brakes squealing,
hits the parking lot of the store across the street,
skids sideways into the retaining island in the lot.
No real damage to the car, flat spots on the tires,
but boy is he pi$$ed.
The kid got fired, I laughed my A$$ off, the customer never came back.

Just a little note on what not to do.

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