Alex Chamberlain wrote:
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"IT'S A DEEEE-ZEL!"
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HA! The way you wrote that reminds me of the way a certain exceedingly anal
and superior woman customer at the service station I used to work at used to
tell us to fill up her 124. In some sort of southern-ish accent it was
always "Feel it with Deeeeezel." Man, she was so bent on making sure we knew
she was above us in society. Duh.
That job actually was my first exposure to Mercedes diesels. We used to call
them "rabid mobies" only because of the foamy nature of diesel. And we could
always hear them coming before we saw them, owing to what I now know as the
"klatta klatta". They almost invariably came into full serve. Didn't get too
nervous around these luxury autos after a while. I remember some unfortunate
new employee, however, who left the nozzle in a guy's Jaguar, allowing him
to pull away. OOOPS.
Ah, memories. Now I'm a rabid mobiler.
Brian
83 240D
From: Alex Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] mistakes a diesel owner should not make
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:36:00 -0800
On 1/18/06, Tom Scordato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just ran into a business associate of mine. He is real proud of his new
VW
> TDI. Loves it. Except the time recently he filled it with GASOLINE. A
> $700 dollar mistake.
That's probably the one nice thing about not having self-serve gas in
Oregon! If the moron high-school-dropout pump jockey makes that
mistake, the station owner, not me, will be shelling out the cost of
the necessary repairs. I've been thinking about this a lot lately
since the station I usually go to (convenient on the way home from
work) seems to have just hired a new batch of said morons, all of whom
need to be told "IT'S A DEEEE-ZEL!" loudly and slowly three or four
times before they get the message and reach for the green-handled
pump.
Alex Chamberlain
'87 300D Turbo
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