since my last post of the cockroach story I thought I would share some of the bizzare stories out in the field.
16 years of doing this I have TONS of them. each one better than the last.
Hot summer day and this lady has a Whirlpool refrigerator out in the garage. Symptoms are NO refrigeration, you hear a click, lights dim then a few seconds later another click and the light in the frige becomes bright again.
Sure sign the compressor is kicking off on overload, thing is 18 years old... not worth fixing HOWEVER you cant just tell a customer that so you have to go through the motions of pulling it out from the wall, take the back cover off and check it with a meter and what not.
I proceed to pull the unit, take the cover off and what do I see? A snake wrapped around the compressor.
Hmm. so I cover it back up and push it back to the wall.
So I tell the lady. "I have bad news and I have worse news. First of all you have a bad compressor"
she says "OK , I'll just buy a new one"
I said "OK well this is where the worse news comes in, When they come to take it away, you may want to warn the guys to beware of the snake wrapped around the compressor."
She was actually cool with it. She says that she gets them all the time....
WHAT THE FUH?
People are funny.