Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Paint Stripper

I know it has been a while since I have posted here, but I have a good excuse. It's was the aliens...not really, there just are no funny stories UNTIL NOW!

One of our field techs called in and said, "You will not believe this...". I had to hear this because I normally don't get many of these impossible to believe situations. "The other tech that talked to told him to use canned air to clean out the dispenser. Here is the kicker, the guy used Rustoleum Paint Stripper instead of canned air...", said our field tech. At this point I was totally speechless. I could not believe that this had happened just like he said. Our field tech began to go on, "Man I have to scrape this stuff off with a screw driver, I'll be surprised if this thing even works...", still speechless. After regaining myself I began looking up the price for a new and refurbished dispenser and at that time our field tech said that he had gotten it working again. I was just about to tell him that they need a new dispenser. I went ahead and told him that if that dispenser went out afterward will have to pay $1400 for a new one.

The moral of this story is...expect the unexpected. No one can be trusted to know what canned air is. xD