Hey all you Guy and Gals, lets hear your most unforgettable service call, whether its good, bad, ugly, nasty, bizzare or just plain unbelivable. Can be customers, location, equipment or whatever it takes to tell your story.
Service Call You Will Never Forget
acrman
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How about an install instead?
Was working on an changeout, pretty basic, but ended up spending 2 days there so I got to BS with the ladies that lived there a bit. Was pretty easy to tell they were more than roomies (since they had pictures of themselfs together all over the house for one). Anyway, last day there, was going to the van to get something I forgot earlier, head down walking up the stairs. I reached the top noticed feet by the top stair, figured I'd better look up so I don't run anyone over.... when what do I see? Those to making out... HEAVILY! Lots of noises, bit of foldeling... it was mighty nice. Needless to say I instantly forgot what the heck I was going to the van for and walked very slowly as I passed them.
The best part about this, this wasn't your typical ***** stereotype, both were very feminine and mighty mighty good looking.
Tough to forget something like that.
Was working on an changeout, pretty basic, but ended up spending 2 days there so I got to BS with the ladies that lived there a bit. Was pretty easy to tell they were more than roomies (since they had pictures of themselfs together all over the house for one). Anyway, last day there, was going to the van to get something I forgot earlier, head down walking up the stairs. I reached the top noticed feet by the top stair, figured I'd better look up so I don't run anyone over.... when what do I see? Those to making out... HEAVILY! Lots of noises, bit of foldeling... it was mighty nice. Needless to say I instantly forgot what the heck I was going to the van for and walked very slowly as I passed them.
The best part about this, this wasn't your typical ***** stereotype, both were very feminine and mighty mighty good looking.
Tough to forget something like that.
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11 O clock @night walk in coller down 7-11.Drive 40 miles get lost then up over the hill there it is.Pull in to parking lot see store lights fliker, cycling off on low pressure. Grap the 22 and and ladder and head to the roof.Dump a charge in and found the leak.Box is pulling temp, at that point I realized that I was at the wrong store.So now it's off the store that called in, about 15 miles away Beacon system.Massachusetts rotarys and Beacon sensors both useless.
i was at a house for a no heat for our local female juvenile probation officer. she around 45-50 yrs old. as soon as i got out of the van and started walking up the sidewalk, i caught a scent that i knew was going to get worse. once i got inside, the ammonia smell about knocked me down. didnt see a dog or cat anywhere, but there were stacks upon stacks of pizza boxes, old pans of food on the stove, newspapers EVERYWHERE, and i couldnt see any part of the flooring. this place was N-A-S-T-Y!!!! finally choked my way to the basement (which still smelled, but it was actually better than upstairs), started looking at the 25 year old rheem, and noticed that the flue pipe was laying on the floor, rusted in HALF, h/e looked like swiss cheese, etc etc...all from the ammonia in the house. went back upstairs to tell her the news, and when i looked for her in the living room, i noticed the ceilings and doorways were awfully low. i got to the living room, and there were nothing but stacks and stacks of newspapers on the floor. THEY WERE LEVEL WITH THE ARMS OF HER EASY CHAIR!!!!!! there was about 18 inches of newspaper EVERYWHERE. i finally realized that every time her dog (which was obviously dead now) had relieved himself, she just threw a newspaper over it and moved on. this whole house was this way!!! she has since had the house taken from her by the health dept., but they dont know what to do with it. they cant burn it, tear it down, or sell it due to environmental concerns. this is your local county's govt employees for ya!
YUCK!!!!!!!
YUCK!!!!!!!
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It was a hot 4th of July weekend. My partner and I had 5 emergency calls on a Saturday morning. We decided that he would take two and I would take 2 and then meet at the American Legion Post and get their beer walk-in cooler going.
It was about noon when I arrived at the Legion Post. The bartender was glad to see me because he said that he was expecting a large wedding party that was do to arrive in a hour or so.
He showed me to the Walkin in the basement. He warned me not to let the door close because it was an old fashioned door and it didn't have a saftey release on the inside.
I surveyed the situation and discovered that the coil was a block of ice. I got my tools and my b-tank and proceeded to deforst the coil. I remembered to keep the door ajar.
The turbo torch was going and the water was pouring off the coil when I hear my partner say. "Good you already found the problem..CLICK!" Oh no! We are both locked inside the Walk-in cooler. We both had visions of dieing of suffocation or worse yet spending the weekend locked up with our partner.
We tried yelling but nobody could hear us. Especially since the band for the wedding party started to play.
We could hear the thristy crowd from the wedding suffling into the hall above us so all our yelling and banging was in vain.
Then it came to me. The beer lines in the cooler where jumping everytime the bartenders poured a beer for the incoming guests. So I simply turned off all of their beer. The head bartender came down to find out why there was no beer and we were saved.
Embarassed but saved.
It was about noon when I arrived at the Legion Post. The bartender was glad to see me because he said that he was expecting a large wedding party that was do to arrive in a hour or so.
He showed me to the Walkin in the basement. He warned me not to let the door close because it was an old fashioned door and it didn't have a saftey release on the inside.
I surveyed the situation and discovered that the coil was a block of ice. I got my tools and my b-tank and proceeded to deforst the coil. I remembered to keep the door ajar.
The turbo torch was going and the water was pouring off the coil when I hear my partner say. "Good you already found the problem..CLICK!" Oh no! We are both locked inside the Walk-in cooler. We both had visions of dieing of suffocation or worse yet spending the weekend locked up with our partner.
We tried yelling but nobody could hear us. Especially since the band for the wedding party started to play.
We could hear the thristy crowd from the wedding suffling into the hall above us so all our yelling and banging was in vain.
Then it came to me. The beer lines in the cooler where jumping everytime the bartenders poured a beer for the incoming guests. So I simply turned off all of their beer. The head bartender came down to find out why there was no beer and we were saved.
Embarassed but saved.
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Another 7-11 one ,I was woking in a store with low traffic on something with a K body.I thought it was only the cashier and myself.So I go to use the rest room [store was a dump]open the door and what do my poor eyes see, the cashiers 350lb wife with her blubber hanging over the bowl,her face all tighten up, and with facial hair pushing out a #2.I shut the door before I went blind Left the store and called an apprentice to wrap up the call.
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Worst call I've had - that's easy. Get a call in the 'hood, previous tech had been there and said bad blower motor, but didn't have motor. So, I get dispatched to get her going.
I arrive, find the tenant sitting at table cutting coke and bagging it, with a 9mm on the table. He looks up and says "You gonna get the mothaf-n heat on?". Nice. I go to basement, get furnace running, and while I am working I hear daughter get home.
Daughter and mother proceed to get into FISTFIGHT in kitchen, complete with hair pulling, punching, and a cheering crowd. Of course, the basement stairs are in the kitchen. When commotion dies down, I sneak out back door with my tools and got down the street before I called the office. Told them to call the landlord and let him know what's going on and "Oh, BTW, never send me there again. For anything."
I arrive, find the tenant sitting at table cutting coke and bagging it, with a 9mm on the table. He looks up and says "You gonna get the mothaf-n heat on?". Nice. I go to basement, get furnace running, and while I am working I hear daughter get home.
Daughter and mother proceed to get into FISTFIGHT in kitchen, complete with hair pulling, punching, and a cheering crowd. Of course, the basement stairs are in the kitchen. When commotion dies down, I sneak out back door with my tools and got down the street before I called the office. Told them to call the landlord and let him know what's going on and "Oh, BTW, never send me there again. For anything."
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I have worked on wrong customers units a few times too.onesidedcoin said:
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Visions of cat houses pop in my head.titleless said:
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Working in fancy desiner clothing store Madison Ave NYC,Pulling strainers G.C. on job. G.C.comes over to us and says what are you guys doing we got a water leak. Water comming out of the liner diffusers on to the $3000 leather jackets. The G.C. puts his hand up to the water leak and says "it tastes like tower water to me" I run like hell up to the tower to stop pump and drain,as I was doing that the electriction comes over an says you guys are off the hook is the over flowing toilet I told them to fix it 6 times
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thats great did ya tell the gc what he was drinking?coolperfect said:
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Yeahyeahyeah, blahblahblah. How sweet.titleless said:
But seriously, which one will you never forget about?
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I would've gladly gotten in a fistfight to win the right to share THAT little tidbit.souper phly said:thats great did ya tell the gc what he was drinking?coolperfect said:
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The G.C.'S hate me enouggh as it is.with the access they give to work on units. I did not want to push it.acrman said:
Apparently, it tastes like overflowing toilet water...But I guess if the last guy has been to KFC recently...acrman said:
Now about that call I will never forget...When I was doing some resi work (or it was doing me), I remember a call to a house with a particular french girl...
I remember a call to the Canadian Nuclear Power Commission where they build the Candu reactors and having to ride a verticle conveyor 5 storeys up, tools and all holding on for dear life.
Way too many memories to list here.
[Edited by gruntly on 01-01-2006 at 02:49 PM]
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