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Default Today's my birthday and . . .

On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 1:05:11 PM UTC-6, Janet B wrote:
> Today is my birthday.
>
> My husband took the truck into the Ford dealer first thing. We'd had
> the truck in for a repair 10 days ago and the truck was leaking some
> oil. They'd had to put a oil filter relocation kit in and had
> simply neglected to put a clamp around the hose. As they lifted it up
> on the hoist, they punched through the forward gas tank with the lift!
> So what would have been a few minutes to fix is now looking to be
> anywhere from a couple days to a week or more.
>
> They sent my husband home in a rental car.
> There is no charge for the car, a new gas tank, and a clamp for the
> oil hose. No charge for anything and a good thing too.
>
> I wish I had been there, I'm just bubbling with stuff to say.
>
> So, we are still going out to eat tonight.
>
> Janet US


Happy Birthday Janet B! :-)

Yeah, I had my fave shop damage my now dead 1994 Caravan when a garage door cable failed and the garage door in one of their service bays came down on the hood of my 1994 Caravan a while back, and they gave me all sorts of free stuff, service and parts! (Which of course is now moot, as Baby, my 1994 Dodge Caravan was killed early Halloween morning last year, 2015!)

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