It being a dull day, I decide to respond to what "Åmund Breivik"
foisted Sun, 11 Jul 2004 04:08:55 +0200 on
rec.crafts.metalworking , viz:

The ones with small lawns and expensive mowers call in every summer
complaining the mower won't start, and every time it turns out to be
something silly like forgetting to put fuel in the tank or opening the
stopcock.
The guy I had do the work on my motorcycle charged you five bucks if
you brought a bike in that "wouldn't start" and you'd forgotten to turn on
the gas. That was the first time. Second time, it was 10 buck. $20 bucks
for the third time. Said he never had yet charged anyone twenty bucks for
forgetting to open the petcock. Couple ten spots, but no twenties.

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."