THALL10326
The Champ
My ole geezer tight wad friend came by yesterday evening to tell me that blower won't start again. I said well lets have a look at it. He didn't have it with him. I said where is it. He said its home and it won't start. I said where is home, he said across town. I said well why don't ya go get it and bring it in here. I promised him as well if there is something wrong with it I'll fix it for free. Away he flew to get his blower. He comes right back with it. I sat it down on my new tile floor and gave it a few cranks and there was gas pouring out the muffler onto my floor again,grrrrr. I looked up at him and said ya see all that gas, he said yes. I said its flooded again. I held open the throttle and kept cranking and it finally sputtered and fired up, smoking like a train. It clear out and ran perfect. He shook his head in disbelief and here's what I did for the ole feller. I said leave it here tonight. Tomorrow morning you swing by and we'll see how she acts then. He said ok. I cleaned up my floor again, grrrrrrrr. This morning he came by. I went and got the blower, it had sat all nite. I said now show me how you start it. He turned on the switch, locked the throttle, set the choke, primed it and started to crank it. On the second pull it sputtered and he was about to crank it again. I said hold up, theres the problem. I told him to set it at half choke and he did and one more crank she fired up and ran perfect. This is the exact same way I showed him to start it when he bought it from me months before. I told him you got to go to half choke after she fires that first time. He had for some reason got the notion it would run on choke. He shook his head and laffed. I said don't feel bad, hell happens all the time and this time its on the house, I'm not gonna charge ya $5.00 this time. He patted me on the shoulder and laffed and said thanks and away he went. Like I said in my other post about this ole guy, he'll be coming back to me over and over and over. I think now he realizes that was $5.00 well spent the first time. He left all happy and all smiles and I must admit as I watched him leave I thought to myself one day I'll get old too. I think too he'd rather pay me $5.00 than go anywhere else and I kinda like that,haha..........................
