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I got paid a bag of rice to work on a car...

  • 02-03-2013 11:25pm
    #1
    bmstuff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭


    I kid you not...and you know what, the bag was opened, it was a used bag of rice lol.

    Ok I got paid normal money too...

    The owner of that BMW 630i gave me a used bag of rice to sweeten the other piece of work I have to do tomorrow to his car.
    I come across lots of people and stories everyday, but this one is a memorable one to me.
    Of course the owner is from the far est and is in the restaurant business.

    I thought that was funny somehow. Still I took it. Anyway nice car and nice upgrade I am working on, Logic7 retrofit (Digital Sound Processing amplifier along with new Harman Kardon speakers all around).

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    Ok back to business.

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    Ok I got stranded with only one fibre optic cable. And what do you do on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of the country if you are stuck with one long cable only?
    Well you improvise and from a long one, you make 2 cables, using the restaurant's chef kitchen knife :lol:
    And it worked actually. Thanks Mark.

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    A bit of BMW coding at the end to enable Logic7 in the car and the iDrive.

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    Thanks for reading


Comments

  • #2
    hzhang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭hzhang


    Make sure you check the expire date before you eat the rice :-)


  • #3
    coolisin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,793 ✭✭✭coolisin


    As you except rice as payment I will gladly pay you in the finest uncle bens to carry out the same work!!!


  • #4
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,059 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Yeah, Paddy (see what I did there?) would usually have a couple of bags of sand in the boot of his BMW during the winter....

    Not your ornery onager



  • #5
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    I have a 2kg bag of pasta here somewhere....


  • #6
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,059 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    I have a 2kg bag of pasta here somewhere....
    20kg minimum or GTFO.

    Not your ornery onager



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  • #7
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    bmstuff, where are you based? Have a look here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056893747


  • #8
    bmstuff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭bmstuff


    OSI wrote: »
    I'd be careful with that stuff, very easy to get shards of it under your skin, eyes or lungs.

    Yeah I can imagine,the chef said his knife could cut a man in half so I figured it should be sharp enough for the job.


  • #9
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    I was half expecting there to be a fusion splicer in your boot, never heard of anyone cutting it with a knife till now :o. .


  • #10
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Hal1 wrote: »
    I was half expecting there to be a fusion splicer in your boot, never heard of anyone cutting it with a knife till now :o. .

    digital audio over fiber , especially where there's no couplers etc.. involved isn't as precise an art as data fiber , and given the distance its probably fairly resilient. Using a hot knife would probably have been better but still, the advantage of digital, it either works or it doesn't , no quality loss.


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