Sep
19
This Climbing Video is Truly Epic
Indoor climbing video with some seriously epic climbing moves.
Sep
10
Take apart a Jeep and Rebuild in 4 Minutes Video
Video of a Jeep being taken apart and rebuilt in 4 minutes. Jeep stands for General Purpose Vehicle. I have owned several newer jeeps, and I have always liked the older jeeps. The whole military, nostalgia thing.
Sep
08
Bad day on a Cruise liner during a storm
Amazing video of a Cruise liner during a storm. I am surprised they don’t have the furniture attached to something in case this sort of thing happens. Take cover and hold on for dear life.
Sep
02
Buying a Car Saga
My son called this guy to look at his Ford Mustang he had for sale. The seller said come over after work to check out the car. We went over after work to checkout the car, but the owner wasn’t there yet. We speak with his wife and she tells us to wait for her husband. In the meantime we check out the car that is for sale in the driveway. Not a bad car and for $1600 for a 1995 Ford Mustang, it seemed like a pretty good deal.
The owner shows up and right behind him is another potential buyer that wants to look at the car also. I really didn’t want to get into a bidding war with someone over a car, but it doesn’t hurt to look at it and talk to the seller. The owner starts the car and pulls it out so we can get a better look and also hear the motor run.
I ask the owner of the car who called first on the car and the other potential buyer pipes in that he has first dibs on the car and he told the seller of the car so over the phone. Kinda of a jerk move on the other guys part, but oh well. The owner doesn’t say anything at this point. I ask the owner of the car again who the first caller was and the owner says we both called within 5 minutes of each other. Obviously the owner of the car doesn’t want to make any waves. So the other guy gets to take the car out first and he gets to decide whether he wants to buy it or not before we get a crack at it. Kinda upsets me because we were there first to look at it. So the owner and the potential buyer go out in the car and then they come back.
The owner of the car walks over to me and says that the other guy is probably going to buy the car. He says if I want to talk to the other buyer to go ahead. I walk over to the guy and ask if he is going to buy the car and he says yes. Then I ask if he is going to pay full boat for the car, which means pay full price and he says yes also. I am speculating that the other buyer was a friend of the owner or worked with the owner because he drove in like he was being towed by the other guy (thats how close the other buyer was to the seller when they drove in). The one thing we had going for us was that the other buyer had to pay full price.
Sep
01
Phone Service and Good Phone Skills
I just received a call from Nissan service for my car which is great. They were reminding me that my next service on my car is coming up and they wanted to schedule that for me. They asked about my email and address to make sure that it was correct. I then asked what the mileage should be for my next service. The lady on the phone didn’t speak very good English and I had to ask her twice what the mileage needed to be. At no time did she slow down and try to enunciate the correct mileage. After the 2nd time I just let it go and I figured I would just look in the manual for the correct mileage. I believe that if you are a phone operator trying to get someone’s business then you should speak the native language fluently and have good diction.
