True story: the other day Richard Bonomo was coming home and his garage door wouldn’t open all the way. He tried to open it manually, but it wouldn’t stay raised, so he let it back down… without noticing his index finger was between two panels. So he had to lift the door back up and extract his finger, which was flat on the tip. He said it didn’t hurt yet, so he drove to the emergency room. Luckily it was a quiet night, so he was taken – by gurney – to be x-rayed right away, and the tip of the bone was shattered, but they said the pieces were all in the right places so it should heal on its own. Meanwhile, as the blood flowed back into his finger and it re-inflated, he said the pain got exponentially worse. Ultimately they gave him a small plastic guard for his finger, which he promptly lost in the hospital parking lot.
The next day Rich went back to the hospital and found his flattened finger guard in the parking lot, apparently smooshed by a car. Since his finger was no longer flat, he needed an unflat guard, so he brought it into the hospital and asked for a replacement, which they gave him. Then he and Kathbert went to look at snow blowers. The saleswoman, who was middle-aged, told him a particular model was the “Cadillac of snow blowers.” He asked if any models were really bad, and she said, “That one,” pointing at the Cadillac of snow blowers. Apparently she was talking in hip-hop, which one might not expect from a middle-aged white woman, but instead of amending his question to say something like, “I need to know which snow blower totally bites, not which is the sickest,” he requested to know which snow blower was “bad in standard English.” Kathbert just about died of embarrassment. In the end, Rich did not purchase a snow blower… and when he got home, he realized his finger guard was missing. Probably left on the top of the baddest snow blower, whatever that might mean to you.
Update: 8 December - Rich has actually provided us with an actual photo of his finger. This must be from a few days ago. It looks far worse today.
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2 comments:
Eww on the finger. I am surprised that someone in sales would have such poor customer service. Maybe he should have asked for a bad ass snowblower
All I can do is laugh because the ad right under your comment was: "Which snowblower is best?" The baddest one?
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