Gary is my new Best Friend
Apr. 14th, 2021 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI was researching adjustable beds and digging through Reddit for answers when I got a text that Gary was 10 minutes from my house. I took 2 of those minutes to do the dance of joy.
He's an older guy - like late 50's - 6 feet tall and probably 150 pounds. So wriggling under the bed was not that hard for him. He said there was nothing under there that the vacuum could have messed with. He checked the wires and plugs. Then went to the remote. He fiddled with the batteries and got the bed to go flat. HALLEFUCKINGLOOOOYA!
I had just put some nobrand cheapass batteries into the remote yesterday. Apparently it's like those fancy assed cars - it wants high test only. I found some new Copper Tops and he put those in and all is fine. Fine and dandy. Up and down and flat and not. WHEW. He was kind enough to say 'so the hardest part of this is going to be writing the check'. Nope, Gary, nope. I'm thrilled.
He was fascinated by the treadmill. He'd never seen one like it and since that's his main bread and butter, he really was interested. So I explained the problems. He noted that the belt was off center and showed me how to recenter it. After you make the adjustment you run it for a while 'so it will settle'. He kept hitting the speed button and finally realized that its limit was only 4 miles an hour. That seemed outrageously fast to me and he was worried that it wasn't fast enough. 'I usually do my testing at 9 or 10 miles per hour.' Ha!
After taxes, it was $180 and I was happy to pay it. Seriously.
I am going bed shopping here one of these days. I'm going to scout out the options and then research the fuck out of them AND their maintenance. I've spent way too much energy on keeping this one adjusting.
But, all is fine and I have his number.
The Mariners game is postponed again because Baltimore was too cheap to add a roof to their stadium. Oh well. I'm not going to worry or fret about a single other thing today.
Turns out that the problem may well have been bad remote batteries. But, he was able -
He's an older guy - like late 50's - 6 feet tall and probably 150 pounds. So wriggling under the bed was not that hard for him. He said there was nothing under there that the vacuum could have messed with. He checked the wires and plugs. Then went to the remote. He fiddled with the batteries and got the bed to go flat. HALLEFUCKINGLOOOOYA!
I had just put some nobrand cheapass batteries into the remote yesterday. Apparently it's like those fancy assed cars - it wants high test only. I found some new Copper Tops and he put those in and all is fine. Fine and dandy. Up and down and flat and not. WHEW. He was kind enough to say 'so the hardest part of this is going to be writing the check'. Nope, Gary, nope. I'm thrilled.
He was fascinated by the treadmill. He'd never seen one like it and since that's his main bread and butter, he really was interested. So I explained the problems. He noted that the belt was off center and showed me how to recenter it. After you make the adjustment you run it for a while 'so it will settle'. He kept hitting the speed button and finally realized that its limit was only 4 miles an hour. That seemed outrageously fast to me and he was worried that it wasn't fast enough. 'I usually do my testing at 9 or 10 miles per hour.' Ha!
After taxes, it was $180 and I was happy to pay it. Seriously.
I am going bed shopping here one of these days. I'm going to scout out the options and then research the fuck out of them AND their maintenance. I've spent way too much energy on keeping this one adjusting.
But, all is fine and I have his number.
The Mariners game is postponed again because Baltimore was too cheap to add a roof to their stadium. Oh well. I'm not going to worry or fret about a single other thing today.
Turns out that the problem may well have been bad remote batteries. But, he was able -
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