Tuesday, 27 March 2007

Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General motors !!!!


>Interesting...read On..
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>     Never underestimate your Clients' Complaint, no matter
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>how funny it might seem!!!
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>This is a real story that happened between a
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>customer of General Motors and its Customer-Care
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>Executive . Pls read on.....
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>A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of
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>General Motors:
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>'This is the second time I have written to you, and I
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>don't blame you  for not answering me, because I
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>sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we  have a
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>tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after
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>dinner each night, but the kind of ice cream varies so,
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>every night, after we've eaten, the whole family votes
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>on which kind of ice cream we should have and I drive
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>down to the store to get it.
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>It's also a fact that I recently  purchased  a new Pontiac and since then my
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>trips to the store have created  a problem.....
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>You see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I
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>start back from the store my car won't start.
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>If I get any other kind of ice cream, the car starts just fine.
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>I want you to know I'm serious about this question, no
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>matter how silly it sounds .
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>"What is there about a Pontiac that makes it not start when I get vanilla
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>cream, and easy to start whenever I get any other kind?"
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>The Pontiac President was understandably
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>sceptical about the letter, but sent an Engineer to
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>check it out anyway.
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>The latter was surprised to be greeted by a
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>successful, obviously well educated man in a fine
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>neighbourhood. He had arranged to meet the man just
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>after dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and
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>drove to the ice cream store. It was vanilla ice cream
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>that night and, sure enough, after they came back to
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>the car, it wouldn't start.
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>The Engineer returned for three more nights. The first
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>night, they got chocolate. The car started. The second
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>night, he got strawberry. The car started. The third
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>night he ordered vanilla. The car failed to start.
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>Now the engineer, being a logical man, refused to
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>believe that this man's car was allergic to vanilla
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>ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue his
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>visits for as long as it took to solve the problem.
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>And toward this end he began to take notes: He jotted
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>down all sorts of data: time of day, type of gas uses,
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>time to drive back and forth etc.
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>In a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time
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>to buy vanilla than any other flavour. Why? The answer
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>was in the layout of the store. Vanilla, being the most
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>popular flavour, was in a separate case at the front of
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>the store for quick pickup. All the other flavours were
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>kept in the back of the store at a different counter
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>where it took considerably longer to check out the
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>flavour.
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>Now, the question for the Engineer was why the car
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>wouldn't  start when it took less time. Eureka- Time
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>was now the problem - not the vanilla ice cream!!!!
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>The engineer quickly came up with the answer: "vapour
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>lock". It was happening every night; but the extra
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>time taken to get the other flavours allowed the engine
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>to cool down sufficiently to start. When the man got
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>vanilla, the engine was still too hot for the vapour
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>lock to dissipate.
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>Remember:
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>Even crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all
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>problems seem to be simple only when we find the
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>solution , with cool thinking. Don't just say it is
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>"IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort....
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>Observe the word "IMPOSSIBLE" carefully.... Looking
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>closer you will see, "I'M POSSIBLE"... What really
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>matters is your attitude and your perception.
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