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Spent three hours chasing a phantom door lock fault that turned out to be a single, perfectly wedged Skittle
Honestly, the call was for a hotel car in Dallas that kept faulting on door close, and after checking every sensor and switch twice, I found the culprit was a red candy jamming the sill roller, which the night cleaner confirmed a guest had dropped during a 'vibrant' party the evening before.
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angelamason2mo ago
Read a story once about a tech fixing a washing machine that wouldn't drain. They took the whole thing apart before finding a single kid's sock stuck in the pump. It's wild how the smallest, dumbest thing can cause a huge headache. Your Skittle story is exactly that. Makes you wonder how many service calls are just for random junk in the wrong place.
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hill.barbara8d ago
Angela that washing machine story is a perfect example of how dumb these problems really are. Makes me wonder how many people just give up and buy a new machine when all it needed was a five minute cleanout. Have you ever actually sat down and thought about what percentage of these calls are just kids toys and lost socks? Because I bet it's way higher than any company would ever admit to. They'd rather sell you a new part or a whole new unit than tell you to check the drain pump for a hair clip. That's the real scam, not the techs themselves but the system that makes them charge for hours when the fix is basically free.
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gray_nguyen22mo ago
Remember when I thought techs just swapped parts until something worked? Stories like this show it's real detective work. Finding that Skittle proves you have to actually LOOK at the thing, not just trust the computer codes. Totally changed how I see any repair job now.
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