Re: Why Your Yugo Doesn't Perform Like a Cadillac

[G. Morgan <usenet_abuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob La Londe wrote:

>P.S.  I had a lady complain about my rates the other day until I explained
>that while a plumber which she will gladly pay the same rate may have to
>occasionally get his hands in shit, I have to have more knowledge about more
>things including where his plumbing lines are likely to be in order to do my
>job.  She never argued, and when I charged her for 2 hours instead of 2
>hours and fifteen minutes she thanked me.

I knew a guy many years ago @ Brinks who didn't know where anything was.  He
drilled through a water line a flooded a customer's house once.  One time I
was helping him on one of his jobs and he drilled right into some romex above
a switch plate in front of me.  I told him he was done drilling and I'd do it
but I needed a new 18" bit because this one was now melted.  We went out to
his truck and I shit you not... all 3 of his other 18"ers had burn marks on
them.