It gets a little old but honestly I've dealt with my entire life. Every debit card purchase & phone call I make where I have to say my name, I get the same Halloween serial killer comments. I've learned to live with it & make the most out of it. I usually humor the person & move on. Only time it gets really annoying is Halloween night. My home phone blows up with prank calls. Its my fault b/c I shouldn't have my name in the phone book as Michael Myers anyway.
What's funny is I never get the comedian Mike Myers. You'd think someone would go all Austin Powers on me but its never happened.
I know someone named Mike Hunt. No joke, I'm sure his ribbing was a lot worse than mine.
I got my Kaw back today. The dealer installed the spring kit & said to give it a go. Its working fine right now.
Did they give you any details about the spring kit?
Unfortunately no. They didn't get into any detail other than it was a small bag of springs & they replaced them inside the switch. There wasn't any service people there when I picked it up so I got the story from the parts guy as I was picking up a filter & oil.
I called the service manager this morning. I'm not trying to open a can of worms, I'm just relaying information.
He said when I brought my bike in, he placed an order for a new ignition switch & called the verify that Kaw would pay for the repair under warranty b/c he wanted to ensure he'd get paid. Can't blame the guy for that.
He said that whomever he spoke with at Kaw advised him against replacing the entire switch & said they would send him a pack of springs & they wanted him to replaced the 1 spring inside the keyswitch for the KiPass activiation switch.
He said he received a small ziplock bag with 3 springs in it. They were all the same spring but they sent a couple extra for other repairs or if he lost 2.
There wasn't a part number only 3 springs in a small clear ziplock bag. He took my switch apart, cleaned it, which he said was pretty clean & installed one of the new springs.
If I've been lied to, then he told it. I believe the guy. I was a mechanic at a Case construction equipment dealership for 16yrs. Our service rep not only looked over our warranty claims, sometimes they would provide parts that weren't assigned public part numbers & couldn't be ordered directly from Case but they were in fact available when certain warranty claims were submitted. His story isn't far fetched to me.
That's about all I know to say. I haven't test ridden it other than home but the weather man says its going to be 60 & sunny on Saturday so my new spring will be getting a test then.
Well, it could be worse. There's a guy listed in our local phone book named Oral Sexton. I'm sure that his parents got a big laugh outta that eh?
For a couple of years there was another listing in the same phone book for a guy named Heywood Jablome, I'm not kidding! I don't know how that one got listed but it's been removed.
You do know that the phone company will let you list your number with a different name (versus what's on the bill), right?
I highly doubt Oral's parents got a laugh, as I highly doubt Oral Sexton existed.
I stand corrected. That would suck today (pun intended).
But I still don't agree that parents named thier kids that 70-80 years ago (see the listings), or even if they did now, to laugh at them.