[Ducati] how I handle stress

[John Whiting]

Unlike the time a worker wacked my 900SS tank with a 14' 2X4 while it
was propped up for a battery charge, and then denied that he did it.
OK: worker was only one in the garage that week, was carrying a 14' 2X4
thru the garage, and my tank has a big dent in it and the prop rod is
bent.

I asked him what were the odds that he had NOT been the culprit?  Well,
he said, I know I didn't do that.

Bummer.....glad your dent was a joke.  Good one, huh?

-----Original Message-----
From: ducati-bounces at ducati.net [mailto:ducati-bounces at ducati.net] On
Behalf Of Harlyn Jenkins
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:43 PM
To: 'Ducati Owners Group'
Subject: RE: [Ducati] how I handle stress

Just print out the boarding school brochures and leave them on his
bed...

Harlyn

-----Original Message-----
From: ducati-bounces at ducati.net [mailto:ducati-bounces at ducati.net] On
Behalf
Of Stephen Abramson
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:24 PM
To: 'Ducati Owners Group'
Subject: [Ducati] how I handle stress

So I'm showering after work today, and my 17 year old son comes in to
the
room and says, "Yo Dad, I think we got a problem." That's never really a
good thing for any Dad to hear, especially when he continues and says,
"I
dropped the ladder on the Ducati." Now I begin to process information
very
rapidly. First I think how much it sucks that just last night I pulled
the
battery to replace it and didn't put the cover back on, so there goes
the
first line of defense against damage. The next thought is that there is
currently no ladder in the garage, and for him to go get a ladder from
the
shed to do any kind of unsolicited work (?)would mean he had suffered
some
sort of brain trauma, so that allowed the calmly spoken response, " Well
I
certainly hope you're kidding. . . " At this point he cracks and laughs,
and
says, "Damn, I can't keep a straight face- April Fools!" I told him he
was a
poor planner. He should have come in and said that he dropped one of the
bike stands that hangs on the wall over the bike. That might have made a
little more sense.

 

Don't you want to just kill them. . . . ?

 

Steve