November 2008
It Is a Sad Day Today
This is copied from my warranty repair request letter being FedEx'd to you tonight. It is for a SQUIRT E4. I hope you and your staff enjoy the love and humor with which it was written.
I would include a photo, but it has already been packaged up and picked up. But feel free to photograph it when it gets there....it loves the spot light and attention. ;-)
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To whom this concerns,
I love this SQUIRT E4! In fact it is my 3rd.
I however have a problem with the Phillips screwdriver retention tab, which has recently broken off in my hand. You will see that this SQUIRT is in great shape and only has some minor scratches earned in the heat of battle and field work. It will be missed while in your hands. Please treat kindly and give it a thorough physical exam and let me know if there are any other problems.
I can’t wait to get it back, as I will reach into my pocket each day to call upon its many and mighty skills, and will be saddened by its absence. Since finding the SQUIRT 3.5 years ago I have never been without one to my wife’s dismay each night. In fact I sold my first one to a co-worker and bought a new one because I could not bear to be without it while it got sent in for a tightening and tune up. He got a great deal and you had another person relying on the SQUIRT’s creativity and reliability.
It was a black and white day last winter. My second SQUIRT was lost in a winter blizzard when somewhere in my neighborhood rounds with the snow blower; it fell out of my snow pants. Lost to the Tool Gods forever, I guess. The pants have since been fired for incom-pant-ency. (Please forgive my bad joke, but I am still healing from the loss.)
So hours later, I found myself searching out a replacement SQUIRT. I was very pleased to see that the locally owned hardware store had an E4 in blue to match my college colors, (orange and blue, University of Illinois). Happy days had returned and we were able to remove our black arm bands and return to work.
It sounds funny but it’s true, I continue to have people in the office and out in the field go out of their way to seek me out….actually they seek out the SQUIRT. I am just the human transporter for the little guy. They know I always have one with me and have seen the magic it can do.
Please send my SQUIRT back healthy and happy! SOON!!
Devoted SQUIRT fanatic,
Jason M.
(SQUIRT Human Transporter)
Tuscola, IL
p.s. I hope my sense of humor and love for the SQUIRT came through as well as the SQUIRT has come through for me.
p.p.s. Does SQUIRT have a big sibling with wire strippers? Just curious…..please don’t tell E4 that I was looking for another. OK?! LOL
OK, you voyeur, you. Enough of reading other people's stories. It's time you told your own tale of gripping heroism or even just neat DIY'ism. We know there's a Shakespeare in you somewhere. Don't make us use the Steens to find it.