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THIS IS A TRUE STORY!!!
A K-mart store manager had a foreign sports car that he maintained meticulously. One cold winter day, on the way to work, he heard a faint scraping noise outside his car while traveling down the highway. When he arrived for work, he dropped the car off at the K-mar auto shop for a check-up. Mechanics looked at it, but found nothing wrong.
Two days later, on the way to work, the manager heard the same banging and scraping noise outside his car, on the way to work. He took the vehicle back to the K-mart auto shop and reported the problem again. Their top certified mechanic put the car on a lift, checked out the suspension, and found nothing.
This happened off and on, every few days, for several weeks! The store manager INSISTED that they check his exhaust pipe for loose connections, recheck the entire suspension system, perform a full alignment, the works! He even took the auto shop manager back to his home during lunch, just so they could examine the highway and see if there was loose debris on the road. Despite all the inspections, nobody located anything wrong.
Finally, one day in March, the manager heard the same scraping and clacking noise hitting his car on the way to work. He stormed into the auto shop and INSISTED that they get to the bottom of it. The auto shop manager reviewed his complaint, showed records of how everybody in the garage, including their top certified mechanic, examined his car and could find nothing wrong. The store manager, unwilling to settle for this answer, threatened that they better find and correct his automobile before lunchtime. He handed the shop manager his car keys, pulled of his overcoat, and turned to walking away.
Suddenly, the shop manager yelled, "Hey! What happened to the belt buckle on your coat?" . . .
Every day it was cold, the store manager wore an overcoat with a long belt. He didn't realize that the buckle would sometimes hang outside the door and bang and scrape against the car while driving down the highway. In the afternoons, it was warm enough that he would just toss the coat into the passenger seat. After weeks of this scraping and banging against the lower edge of the car exterior, the soft metal belt buckle was barely hanging by a thread, dented, scarred and dirtied.
The K-mart manager looked at the belt buckle, looked at the shop manager, looked back at the buckle . . . turned a deep shade of red, took his keys and walked away!
TRUE STORY!!! IT HAPPENED AT K-MART #3090, NOW CLOSED, IN THE EARLY 1980S!!!
== dq 1991 240 103k mi, 1988 toyo camry V6LE 233kmi ==
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