She has you trained well

I've owned (well, rented from the bank) one GM product - a Silverado. Bought new but it didn't make it past 3 yrs with many trips to the shop for a rainbow of issues. Fuxing thing was probably made on Monday after Superbowl Sunday by hung over union workers. After that experience, I've sworn off anything made by GM... have not nor ever will buy one of their vehicles again.

I knew how to do laundry long before I met my wife, and I met her when I was 18. Youngest... with 4 sisters and 2 brothers. Chores...

Wife has a certified C300 which has been good so far. Spendy on the maintenance, though. Prolly go back to Honda or Toyota again when necessary. They last and they're easy to maintain yourself.

Same dealer just sent me an email saying they really want to buy our car for their stock. I replied we no longer have the vehicle you're looking for and when you had the chance to buy it, you must not have wanted it too badly since Carmax offered $1500 more than you

They offered 34k for my truck. That's more than I paid last year, and I paid too much just to be done with the truck hunt. But finding a replacement is a problem. Theres no trucks out there, even less in the HD segment

Maybe they'll fix the truck and it'll be great...

AAA gets dicey when you're out of state...

My buddy Dan had a Chevy Cavalier back in the 90's he did NOT take care of at all... the damn thing just kept running. Odd for a Chevy, let alone one not cared for.

Current lean manufacturing principles stem from the The Toyota Production System (TPS) and Edward Deming's SPC stuff. These principles resurrected Japan's manufacturing base when we helped rebuild it after bombing the s#it out of them in WWII. Too bad it took a number of decades for US companies to realize the benefits of this type of thinking.

But thats the whole point of having it, is to have a layer of protection/ assurance when away from your local area.

I have a buddy his rear end gave out on his motorhome. Aaa put him on a flatbed semi truck for 180 miles no outta pocket cost. He sold me on the premier plus plan. It was right around the same time my trans crapped out and I was thinking that would really be a stress relief to know I had a backup plan nationwide.

But today I learned that isn't a thing, aaa doesn't have tow companies under contract to do what aaa promised, and service is incredibly slow, like "we can get the camper in 2 days" slow.

What if I wasn't in a parking lot? What if I was 50 miles from a service station with the family on the side of a highway? I'm so disappointed.

One of my best cars was a $400 Ford Escort. I treated the gas pedal as an on/off switch, I think I changed the oil once in two years. I ran that thing hard. But it kept going.

What did it in was the nose of the crankshaft sheared off. Not a high load area, dunno why or how it happened but the front fell off. That's not sposeda happen.

It was prolly a Ford part.

Got a buddy in Chicago willing to pick it up for me once fixed since he got family in the area so I dont really have to do anything. Just waiting for the phone call.

There ya go! I really liked doing that stuff. The ones who know what and where the problems are and how to fix them are the folks doing the work, not the bozo's in the corner offices. Incremental changes and constant improvements coming directly from the trenches.

Whenever I worked on process improvement projects I'd just put my hands in my pockets and watch and ask questions. Why are you doing like that? I hated to hear "Because that's the way they told me to do it" Bzzzzt, wrong answer. If you could do it your way, how would you do it and why? You show me. You're the expert, I'm just a monkey with a piece of paper that says I'm an engineer. I'd do this in every step along the way and see how each step fed the other.

Ya gotta look at the entire system. What Sally did in step 2 impacts what George does in step 12. If Sally can do a little something different without impacting quality or functionality but it helps George at step 12, then lets make it happen. F-the procedures, I can update that as long as we can justify the change. My job is to make your job easier.

It's amazing on what you learn from asking questions. The biggest one is Why? It's the most basic question... just listen to any 2 year old.. but why? but why? but why? but why? but why? The 5 whys.

I'm sick in the head and think too much. Lean manufacturing stuff is always pinging around in my head for stupid daily stuff. If I put the spice rack right near the stove, I wouldn't have to walk an extra three steps across the kitchen to get the garlic powder.

My name is Bucky and I have a (many) problem(s).

I'm in for $200 if we can take it four wheeling to chase raccoons in the back 40 with a firearm. Hopefully the engine block and firewall will protect us from any ricochet.

Tree NINE! NINE!

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