Oh I believe you. Remember-I am a female gearhead. The emphasis here is on
_female_. You cannot believe what these idiots say to us. I have developed
an "act" to deal with them. I call it "car b...h"! Mercifully, now that I
have Dave's car-I have Dave and his support system and I can be a nice
person again. But sometimes...I'll try to help out a girlfriend who's
getting jerked around. One of them was getting some servicing done and the
guy came out and told her that there was a problem with her car's
transmision fluid-it was red! So there were have to be some work...yeah
right.
I do know one (nice looking blonde btw) woman who has a black vette-and does
the maintenence herself. Her vanity plates read "ntdadys".
Saw another one that read "allmine".
On another very nice vette driven by a woman.
So, vent away Rick-I know from where you are coming!
Have a Spitfire day!
Laura G. and (is that your boyfriend's car?) Nigel ("Do you know what kind
of car you have?"- like I don't know.)
p.s. My clue is when I take the car somewhere and the guy searches under the
dash-then asks me where is the hood release! But now I have all the guys at
the Jiffy Lube around the corner broken in and trained. ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Gregory <rick_gregory@yahoo.com>
To: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 4:39 PM
Subject: Idiot Parts Guys (kinda lengthy, sorry)
>Hi All!
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>I don't mean to vent but I just got back from my neighborhood Discount
>Auto Store and I just have to share this. I swear everything you about
>to read is totally the truth, this is not made up! It is not even
>exaggerated. It just happened minutes ago.
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>Sometimes I cringe these days when I try to find Triumph parts
>locally. This exemplifies why. (I guess it could be argued I brought
>this on myself by going there)
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>Several days ago I purchased a distributor cap and rotor for my '77
>spit 1500. This weekend I'm planning on trying to start my newly
>rebuilt engine so I decided to pick-up a new set of points/condenser.
>Discount had the cap and rotor, sounds to reason they would probably
>have the points, right?
>
>I walk back to the counter. "May I help you"... "yes, I'd like a
>points/condenser assembly for a '77 triumph". "Okay sir, who makes
>your Triumph?", I'm asked. (I already know I'm in trouble). "Triumph
>is the manufacturer", I replied. "No Really. I'm not that stupid...who
>makes your Triumph?"
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>I swear those were his exact words! ... Guess what I'm thinking.....
><"OH YES YOU ARE!"> -- I tell him again, "Triumph is the maker, they
>stopped making cars in the early 80s" ... He absolutely refused to
>believe me. Finally, patience running thin, I reach across the damn
>keyboard myself, hit the DOWN ARROW key and scroll down to the T's and
>select "Triumph". His eyes almost bulged out.
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>"Ok Wow I guess your right". "What model?" he asked. I said "'77
>Spitfire 1500. Lucas Distributor". He selected "Spitfire" on his
>screen then it happened again... "Is that with electronic ignition?"
>he asked ... <?>
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>"Now, what did I say I wanted? I said I wanted a set of points and a
>condensor". Afterwards he rolled his eyes and told me "We don't carry
>points for the Locus Distributor".
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>Now annoyed, I corrected him one final time: "A locus is a bug that
>looks like a grasshopper and eats crops. Lucas makes the
>distributer... llluuuucccaaasss think 'Luke Skywalker'". He then left
>the counter to work the cashier up front as other customers were
>getting restless in line.
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>I still don't know if he even knows what points are. And all this
>hassle for nothing.
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>And we are not talking about some 18 year old kid here either. This
>guy had to be in his mid-30's. Now I'm 29 and I heard of Triumph long
>before I ever started my restoration project. And I don't work in the
>automotive field, I just dabble for fun. Why is a guy like this behind
>the counter?
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>--Rick
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