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What really matter are your attitude and your perception.
This
is a real story 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 sceptical 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 neighbourhood. 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 uses, 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 flavour. Why? The
answer was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most popular flavour,
was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup. All the
other flavours were kept in the back of the store at a different counter where
it took considerably longer to check out the flavour.
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 ices cream, the engineer
quickly came up with the answer: "Vapour lock". It was happening
every night; but the extra time taken to get the other flavours allowed the
engine to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got vanilla, the engine
was still to hot for the vapour lock to dissipate. Remember: 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...Observe the word "IMPOSSIBLE"
carefully... You can see "I'M POSSIBLE"...