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[modessitt]

make sure there are no "surprises" in your game.

So, today I had a crappy day. Started out okay - delivered a Rocky & Bullwinkle out of town - and then was supposed to come back through a different town and stop for a service call on a few pinballs this rich guy has. Of course, I got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere.

Anyway, so I get to the guys house. He's not there, of course, so his wife takes me up to his "man cave" over the 4-car garage. This guy has 8 pinballs up there, and I'm supposed to be working on 3 of them (Twilight Zone, Scared Stiff, and Indiana Jones). So, the wife is turning on lights for me and making sure the AC is on, as I walk up to the Indiana Jones to repair a bad flipper opto board. I open the coin door, remove the lockdown, pull out the glass and set it aside. I lift up the playfield and see this (crappy cell phone pic):

Luckily the wife - who was only five feet from me at the time - had her back to me, so I set the playfield back down and closed the coin door, and decide to go work on the other two first. After about 10 minutes of chatting and puttering, the wife finally goes back into the house and I can go fix the flipper opto board without getting her husband busted.

Interestingly enough, the mags were from 2005 - Club and Hustler. I talked to the guy later on the phone (didn't say anything) and mentioned I'd fixed his Indiana Jones. He didn't seem to remember I needed to fix that one. I wonder what he'll think when he opens it up later and remembers he stashed his porn in there.

Oh well, at least it wasn't a giant dildo...

 

[rikitheshadow]

Roflmao

Just glad I haven't found anything naughty in my cabinets I bought from Craigslisters. I wouldn't mind a few magz if that was the case, but if I found anything like a used condom.................glad I wear gloves sometimes while working on this stuff.......

Funny stuff that he didn't respond, maybe he figured you would have dirt on him now so there is no way he could stiff you with the bill or anything.

 

[Riptor]

I was expecting you to say those were in the scared stiff

 

[Alpha-tron]

Thanks for the laugh. Another use for your arcade machine.It's a great place to hide your.....

 

[sosage]

Magazines? Even this dude's medium of choice for porn is retro.

 

[jonathan1138]

Great story. That would have been really awkward if the Wifey saw it - not just for her but for you - consider yourself just as lucky not having to go through that.

 

[OregonPacman]

That makes it a lot more difficult to get paid for the work too. I have done hundreds of service calls for appliances and haven't found any porn. I guess if you hide it in the bottom of your washing machine cabinet, it might get wet if the tub leaks or something. I guess I haven't found anything too disturbing. Just roaches or hoarders where you can't walk around without knocking crap over or there's 3 feet of crap with a trail through it. I guess you get used to it.

 

[gsealock]

Congrats and job well done upholding and adhering to man code!

 

[More Cowbell]

You should have left a sticky note (not that kind of sticky note perv) on one of the pages that said something like, "Niiiiiice! Signed, the Pinball Repair Guy". Would have made a nice "Oh crap!" moment at some point in the future.

 

[Atlas100]

I've got a similar story. Our daily FedEx pickup/delivery guy accidentally dropped his phone here one day by one of our drive-in-doors. When we found the phone, we opened it up to see who's it was. It had this animated gif on the screen of naked women with their boobies bouncing around.

One of my employees changed the phone caption to say "Change your pic" before we gave it back. We all really wanted to change the picture to a naked guy to really embarrass him, but I have to see this guy EVERY DAY, so it is already awkward enough as it is...

 

[cleverlyj]

Thanks for the laugh. Another use for your arcade machine.It's a great place to hide your.....

pretty funny. let's just hope the machine's set to free play, so she never has to open the coin door to get a quarter back.....

but seriously, chrissy knows where my playboys are - mixed in with all her people magazines.

 

[PhoenixStar]

This belongs in the Thread of the Year Club.

 

[ifkz]

Funny, but I wonder if the guy even knew they were inside the machine. This guy seems pretty well off, he doesn't work on his own games, and consider the dates of the mags. If this was set on free play, I'd say they belonged to the former owner of the games before the rich guy bought 'em. Great for a laugh though ;-)

 

[avidgeek]

So did you read any good articles?

 

[qbass187]

Magazines? Even this dude's medium of choice for porn is retro.

That's what I was thinking too.

You didn't happen to see an old reel to reel projector that he maybe watches porn on, did ya?

 

[ELutz]

Funny, but I wonder if the guy even knew they were inside the machine. This guy seems pretty well off, he doesn't work on his own games, and consider the dates of the mags. If this was set on free play, I'd say they belonged to the former owner of the games before the rich guy bought 'em. Great for a laugh though ;-)

Yeah, kinda reminds me of this time a cop dropped off a High Speed pinball for me to fix and shop out. There was an old film canister inside......stuffed with some totally nasty skunk weed.

Edward

 

[keithsarcade]

I would have let the wife see 'em. Then grab the pins cheap in the divorce

 

[modessitt]

Funny, but I wonder if the guy even knew they were inside the machine. This guy seems pretty well off, he doesn't work on his own games, and consider the dates of the mags. If this was set on free play, I'd say they belonged to the former owner of the games before the rich guy bought 'em. Great for a laugh though ;-)

We delivered the game out there 2 weeks ago and they weren't in there then. Either they are his, or his property maintenance guy put them in there...

 

[ifkz]

We delivered the game out there 2 weeks ago and they weren't in there then. Either they are his, or his property maintenance guy put them in there...

Well, there goes my theory. +1 on the funny-o-meter!

 

[mrbill08]

Props to the repairman for not giving up his customer.....

And not blackmailing him....


Bill