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Old 12-17-2003, 05:03 AM
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I ordered the Shark Injector from Mini Mania, opened it and set it on the kitchen counter. It disappeared, but my wife has a habit of putting things away (which I've never learned) so I didn't think about it too much. Last night I looked for it, thinking I'd like to read through the instructions one more time, and couldn't find it. My wife said,"Oh, that empty box? I threw it away."

The garbage man came yesterday.


 
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Old 12-17-2003, 05:10 AM
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I think I would shoot her instead of myself. Sorry to hear what happened. I watched a TV show once where a guy threw his girlfriends favorite doll away by mistake. He went to the landfill and found it, feel lucky??
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 05:26 AM
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What else can one say but BUMMER.
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 05:29 AM
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From some of the stuff I've read about the Shark, the landfill is about where it belongs.
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 05:48 AM
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Not to rub salt in the wound, but... if y'all recycled, she would have had to break down the box to get rid of it, and would have seen the stuff inside. Putting an intact cardboard box even in regular trash is pretty lame, because you're needlessly adding to the volume of trash in the landfill. It's lazy. NOW will you shoot her?
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 06:03 AM
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>>I ordered the Shark Injector from Mini Mania, opened it and set it on the kitchen counter. It disappeared, but my wife has a habit of putting things away (which I've never learned) so I didn't think about it too much. Last night I looked for it, thinking I'd like to read through the instructions one more time, and couldn't find it. My wife said,"Oh, that empty box? I threw it away."
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>>The garbage man came yesterday.
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Old 12-17-2003, 06:05 AM
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Wow. That's worse that losing your retainer in the junior high cafeteria.

Maybe you should order an intake or an exhaust, and see if she throws that out too.
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 07:27 AM
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Well, at least she can't give you any crap about buying another one.... Tell her they don't make that one anymore so you had to spend more to get the Webbmotorsports Powerchip instead.
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 07:33 AM
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Man that's the saddest thing I've ever heard. I'm so sorry to hear it...
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 07:34 AM
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That sucks, since that one will never see the light of day again, maybe, just maybe, in the spirit of the holidays and all things holy, your vendor could take some pitty and write it off as lost in the mail or something. Or at least give you a discount on the replacement.

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Old 12-17-2003, 09:43 AM
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veni_vidi:

i have an un-used shark in the box which I have decided not to use; make me an offer.
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 11:33 AM
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Can't live with them...
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 11:34 AM
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Old 12-17-2003, 02:48 PM
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Reminds me of when my wife first moved in with me and decided to clean out my fridge thus tossing out my treasured one gallon jar of the best Jalopenos ever. Needless to say, it was irreplaceble and she'll never forget that even after 7 years of marriage
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 04:18 PM
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After my moping around for the last 24 hours she finally seems ready to give me anything I want. Maybe this will work out better than I thought.

Hmmmmm...header? Throttle body? Fuzzy dice?
 
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Old 12-17-2003, 07:05 PM
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Well, now she knows what to get you for Christmas.
 
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>>After my moping around for the last 24 hours she finally seems ready to give me anything I want. Maybe this will work out better than I thought.
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>>Hmmmmm...header?<<



 
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Old 12-18-2003, 11:34 AM
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Hmmmmm.....do you suppose she's pullin one over your head. Maybe you'll find it again under the Xmas tree

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>>Reminds me of when my wife first moved in with me and decided to clean out my fridge thus tossing out my treasured one gallon jar of the best Jalopenos ever. Needless to say, it was irreplaceble and she'll never forget that even after 7 years of marriage
 
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Old 12-18-2003, 02:20 PM
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That sucks to hear...I'd go with the fuzzy dice :smile:
 
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