Saturday, July 23, 2005

its interesting

HEY BUDDIES,
read the following text and see hoe it is
you will really enjoy it
Vanilla ice cream logic

Never underestimate your Clients' Complaints, no matter how funny it might
be!

This is a real story that happened between the customer of General Motors
and its Customer-Care Executive.

A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors:
This is the second time I have written to you, and I don't blame you for
not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a
tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after dinner each night.

But the kind of ice cream varies so, every night, after we've eaten, the
whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive
down to the store to get it. It's also a fact that I recently purchased a
new Pontiac and since then my trips to the store have created a problem.

You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start back from the
store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car
starts just fine.

I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no matter how silly it
sounds. "What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get
vanilla ice cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?"

The Pontiac President was understandably skeptical about the letter, but
sent an Engineer to check it out anyway. The latter was surprised to be
greeted by a successful, obviously well educated man in a fine
neighborhood. He had arranged to meet the man just after dinnertime, so the
two hopped into the car and drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla
ice cream that night and, sure enough, after they came back to the car, it
wouldn't start.

The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first night, they got
chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got strawberry. The car
started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start.

Now the Engineer, being a logical man, refused to believe that this man's
car was allergic to vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue
his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And toward this end
he began to take notes: he jotted down all sorts of data: time of day, type
of gas used, time to drive back and forth etc. In a short time, he had a
clue: the man took less time to buy vanilla than any other flavor.

Why? The answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most
popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick
pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the back of the store at a
different counter where it took considerably longer to check out the
flavor. Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car wouldn't start
when it took less time.

Once time became problem - not the vanilla ice cream, Eureka!!!!

The engineer quickly came up with the answer: "vapour lock". It was
happening every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavors
allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got
vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapour lock to dissipate.

Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems seem to be
simple only when we find the solution with a cool thinking.

Don't just say its "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort...

What really matters is your attitude and your perception.

3 comments:

Girish Kolari said...

It was really a good one . I think this truth show that one should not stop debugging ,which is a common(or unrelated to the technical) aspect . Try to solve problem until you can solve it.

This truth not only for just for a car mechanic , a software developer(any stream) should work over Sam way . In a software develop meant we think some problem is very common and we will not give any importance . That is the rezone for the big mistakes at the end ...

This is a good posting , good work . Keep it up

Girish Kolari said...

hay ... you can change a bit in the links .

You do one thing mack a separate section for both for other blog and sites which you are visiting . mack in such a way that easy separate between the things . I think you can do it .

If you are not confident to change the template , don't worry you do some changes and don't save you look at the preview . If you don't want that change you can clearer it by the Clear Edit option .

Ravi R Bhat said...

hey hey wait one second....did i read it right what i saw...
In ur ABOUT ME section u have described urself as "A sweet innocent girl "...
Thats NEWS....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I never knew u where....
;-)