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Drivetrain Somebody shoot me....PLEASE!

Old Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 17, 2003 | 05:26 AM
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What else can one say but BUMMER.
 
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Old Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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.

Good Luck.
 
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Old Dec 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 Dec 17, 2003 | 11:33 AM
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Can't live with them...
 
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Old Dec 17, 2003 | 11:34 AM
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Old Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 17, 2003 | 07:05 PM
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Well, now she knows what to get you for Christmas.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2003 | 07:18 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.
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>>Hmmmmm...header?<<



 
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Old Dec 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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Old Dec 18, 2003 | 11:48 AM
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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 Dec 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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