Putting new batteries in your dytter (or 'how to have a good laugh at the jewelery store')

[mccordia 74]

I needed new batteries for my pro-dytter, and didn't have time to go to a gear-store before heading of to the DZ tomorrow-morning.

So I grabbed my dytter, and just walked to the local jewelery store, a few streets from my home.
He asks for the type, so I read the type of batteries on the back of the dytter (never put new ones in before) and behold!!! They have them....So I ask for two, and the guy asks if he should put em in (sure...if it's free.....saves me from looking for a screw-driver when I get back home).
So I hand him the dytter, and he examines it.
He goes into the back with a puzzled look on his face, and comes back a minute later. I check to see if it has power and put it in my pocket again. The guy is looking at me, and REALY wants to ask what it is, but somehow can't get himself to do so. So I pay the batteries, and say "thanx, have a nice weekend..." and turn around...(usualy I'm quite the pimp when it comes to showing o as 'a cool skydiver', but this time there was now showing off, I just needed batteries, that's all.
Before I walk out the door, the guy finaly explodes..."Mister....can I ask...what is that thing..."

So I turn around, and say it's a audible altimeter for skydiving. "how does it work?" so I explain briefly that it gives 3 signals as a backup to my regular altimeter on my wrist.

Then, all of a sudden, the guy face turnes white...
"DID YOU CHECK IF IT WORKS...!!???"

So I say.."yea...it has power, it shows the warning altitudes..it works..."

Then, he went completely nuts..

PLEASE CHECK IT AGAIN BEFORE YOU JUMP!
I MEAN..WITH THESE NEW BATTERIES....YOUR GONNA CHECK IT ON THE GROUND BEFORE YOU GO UP...RIGHT? RIGHT?

Then it hit me (I'm slow...I know)
He was afraid I was gonna 'go in' because of a dytter with batteries that are installed incorrecly :)

So I assured him (again) that it would work, and when that didn't seem to calm him, I briefly explained about cypress too. It calmed him down a bit, but he still looked a bit spooked.
I just sayd 'thanx for the service' and left...

The poor guy will probably be at home all day, waiting for news on the radio of a skydiver who went in because his dytter-batteries where installed upside down or something

I laughed all the way home (okay..only a one minute walk...but still...It realy made my day:)

JC
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[bobsled92 0]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get batteries for my TIME-OUT (regularly/4-6 mos.=no turn off) just for good volumemost think it's a pager.
p.s.
when I get "the" Whuffo question, I tell them I go in all the time, I was killed 28 times this spring and my real name is Wyle E. Coyote

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[WayneRATS 0]

watch-battery.co.uk i thin thats the url is the best for batterys.. certainly int he uk there like 1.50 as opposed to 5 quid!

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[jtval 0]

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[Zeemax 0]

LMAO !!

hey you leave clem out of this! he's a really top bloke

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