by Chris McGinty
He pulled into the bay and got out of the van. He looked around for a worker and found one.
“I was here yesterday. You sold me a tire for $10, but it’s in worse shape than the one that you replaced. Can I get one of the $20 tires, and you just give me $10 off?”
The worker considered his position, “I will but you must best me in a fight. Do you know kung fu?”
“Not at all… yeeeeeaaaah!”
They fought an epic kung fu battle with hits and kicks and details that an author who knew anything about kung fu would include in the prose describing the fight. It got precarious and it looked like he might lose and have to pay the full $20 for the tire, but then he remembered a move that he called the swan something… the swan dive or the Lynn Swan. It was something like that, but the point is it was effective.
The worker fell in disgrace. Then to make matters worse, he had to still put the tire on with his body parts hurting.
“I will honor your $10 refund,” he said, “and I don’t think I’m going to get into kung fu fights at work anymore.”
This was based on a true story. Pretty much everything except the kung fu fight really happened.