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Post by GTCGreg on Apr 4, 2013 17:48:04 GMT
here, Citroen is considered to be a car for people who are too eccentric for Saab. Saab people eccentric? Reminds me of an incident a number of years ago. The company I was working for allowed you to either have a company car, or you could use your own car and the company would reimburse you for its use. Being the service manager, I chose to get a company provided passenger type van (Ford Club Wagon) for hauling equipment and/or people. Most of the sales people went with company provided mini-vans such as Caravans or GM Astros or Safaris. One sales girl insisted she would drive nothing but a Saab so that's what she got and took the company's reimbursement. One day she came to me and asked if she could use my van to haul some equipment to a hospital for a demo. She said she couldn't fit it in her Saab. I said that was OK with me but she would have to let me use her car for a lunch meeting I had to go to. She gave me a blank stare and said "really?, Maybe I'll just rent a van." I told her I thought that was an excellent idea.
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Post by c64 on Apr 5, 2013 23:14:40 GMT
Last weekend someone had asked me if I could drive a few items into his new flat on the other side of the country. I thought in terms of washing machine and dryer plus maybe a dish washer or something. All three would fit into my car and would make sense.
But no, the only bulky item was a Sony Trinitron CRT TV. So I told him that for the ~90 liters of gasoline (€1.62/l) and a lunch he would have to buy me, he could mail order a brand new HD TV with the same screen size and built in DVB-T/C/S tuner so he don't even need to buy a receiver no matter which kind of TV connection the new flat has!
He still thinks that his Trinitron has a better picture but I refuse to waste my time for this nonsense.
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