From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 7/8/2025 4:48 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > On 7/8/2025 2:33 PM, Snag wrote:   
   >> On 7/8/2025 2:38 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   >>> On 7/8/2025 4:09 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >>>> "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:104hoe1$360ar$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>>> ...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Before the crackdown on Freon I was trained to build industrial   
   >>>> refrigeration including brazing tubing, but I didn't have much   
   >>>> practical experience before recovery equipment became mandatory.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> I learned to service refrigeration from a mail order course my dad   
   >>> took.   He learned to fix refrigeration because we lived far from   
   >>> town, and if we didn't fix it ourselves it wouldn't get fixed.  My   
   >>> dad had a buddy named Paul Drudge who ran a refrigeration business   
   >>> out of Gila Bend (55 miles away) who would come out, and he taught my   
   >>> dad a lot, but when Paul retired we were on our own.  Nobody wanted   
   >>> to drive 68 miles (from Yuma) to service a country grocery store.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   After they medically retired Dad from working at Hill AFB in '76 he   
   >> opened an AC/R repair business . A large part of his business was   
   >> servicing farm equipment . Often sitting in a field several miles from   
   >> the nearest highway and frequently a hundred miles from town . There's   
   >> a LOT of dry wheat acreage in western Box Elder County Utahaha . And   
   >> you ain't farmin' 4,000 acres on an open tractor in that climate .   
   >   
   >   
   > When I was still running The Security Consultant I got a referral from   
   > the manufacturer to service a burglar alarm system for a country grocery   
   > store in Wenden Arizona.  It is 128 miles from where my office was at   
   > the time.  I called them and explained I'd have to charge them mileage.   
   > I just couldn't take 2/3 of a day to drive up and back to see them and   
   > do what they needed for the cost of a service call.  I also explained   
   > that if I didn't have whatever they needed I might need to make two   
   > trips.  I'd be as prepared as I could be, but no promises.  Their   
   > response was they didn't care as long as I was actually willing to show   
   > up and fix it.  I fixed it.  I wound up doing a handful of various   
   > service calls over the years for them.  Often if I needed to go to   
   > Phoenix for something I'd take 95 to I10 instead of I8 t0 85 and just   
   > charge them for the miles off the freeway.  They were happy to have   
   > somebody who would come out and fix things.  I have mixed feelings about   
   > it, but I'm kinda glad I never told them I could have fixed almost   
   > anything in the store.   
   >   
   >   
      
      Dad didn't have your self-restraint . If he saw a problem he could   
   fix he'd let the client know and offer to do the repair . And save the   
   client a charge for another repairman . He had more business than he   
   could handle sometimes .   
   --   
   Snag   
   We live in a time where intelligent people   
   are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)