Duped

Remember the stove problem last month?

The problem with the shop I usually use for cleaning unable to get to it until January, so I used the shop I don’t like and come to find out the guy from the shop I liked kind of screwed things up?

Then the guy from the shop I don’t like wins me over making it work in record time, then showing me some cool modifications to make my older stove work better.

Modifications he did without first asking…

Basically there’s an exhaust channel at the bottom of the manifold that’s really hard to get to for cleaning. The newer stoves don’t have the protrusions at the bottom of the manifold, so you can clean the channel more easily. The new guy took it upon himself to remove 8 of mine (4 from each side), then told me the benefits of doing so.

Ok. Great. Thanks.

As I’m cleaning the stove this past weekend and noticing how much easier it is to clean the exhaust channel, I also noticed some extra clinking sounds in the channel as I move the vacuum hose around.

Hmmmm?

Could it be?

I get out my work magnet and stuff it down into the all metal channel to find…

Five of the protrusions he snapped off to help me get the channel cleaner.

Really?

You snapped them off, dropped them, told me the benefits of not having them there, but left them to fill up the channel hoping I’d never find them?

WTF?

– b