Posted on 09/24/2008 3:23:57 PM PDT by normy
I own a company that repairs and replaces garage doors and openers and had a customer today that blew my mind.
She told me on the phone she had disassembled her door and couldn't put it back together. When I arrived she kept calling herself stupid and couldn't understand why she couldn't fix this since she was an engineer and a German at that.
When she raised the other door I noticed on her car an NRA sticker on the windshield.
Well I looked at her problem and it was simply two 1/2 inch nuts and bolts she had taken out of the tow arm that connects the opener to the door. All that was required was to simply put the two bolts back into the holes that were there and put the nuts on and tighten them.
I humored her so not to embarass her, seeing she was an engineer and all. I struck up a conversation noting she was an NRA member, I remarked how she must be a Sarah Palin fan.
"I can't stand her!" she retorted, "do you like her?"
"Well yeah" I said, "but don't be mad at me" I joked.
"No no" she responded "I just can't stand her, she is so uneducated and you should hear what the people in Europe are saying about her."
I was laughing inside because here was a German woman, living in the USA who was an engineer and couldn't put two bolts she had removed back into the holes where they went, mouthing Sarah Palins education.
After she wrote me a nice check for her stupidity and lack of any hands on skills (by the way she mouthed McCain's education too) I thanked her and drove away.
I called my friends to tell them this story and one said "You should have asked her if she thought Sarah Palin could have put those two bolts back in their holes".
Just a funny story and a little view into how certain people think education trumps real experience anyway no matter how little experience they have.
> OK, so next time you’ve got a network problem that takes your server room down, call your lawyer to fix it!
Touche!
Your customer may be “educated” but she is not intelligent. In fact it seems that she is a kool-aid drinker, and besides that she is brain dead.
This is one old professor who agrees completely. Then again, I did start out in the oilfield.
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