Too bad you weren't in Texas, we shoot idiots anytime. Unless they're from
Oklahoma, then we just tell them to go home!!! Sorry Charlie...................
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Larry Macy wrote:
> Too bad it wasn't Friday. Over here we have a rule. You can shoot idiots on
> Fridays.
>
> Larry
>
> At this exact moment in time 11/27/01 3:04 PM, "Guy Weller"
> <guy@weller-lakes.freeserve.co.uk> made the profound statement:
>
> > Grr, I am so annoyed!
> > Went to the local Ford main dealer to get some bits for my 5speed and
> > the idiot at the parts counter hadn't got a clue, Worse than that, he
> > flatley refused to look up parts properly for me. I took the alloy
> > extension with me, he looked at it and said "that isn't a ford one".
> > At this point I had a sence of foreboding of wehat was to come!
> > I had to point out the little ford logo in the alloy casting to get
> > him convinced that it was!
> >
> > Then I said that it was an N-type "No such thing!"
> > "Ok, well look up Type 9".
> >
> > He got his computer parts programme up and running and brings up a
> > view of a 4 speed extension. Refused to look for any other "they are
> > all the same".
> > "cannot help you unless you can give me the chassis number or the
> > proper gearbox designation" (he knows it is a scrappie job)
> > So I left him and went into the workshops where I found Tom.
> > Explained what I was up to ( midget / 5 speed etc etc) Tom was
> > helpfull and geniunely interested. Confirmed that the info I had
> > provided was more than enough to identify the parts from. Then he said
> > " I'm not surprised with that storeman - he is totally clueless -
> > causes us all sorts of problems, a real b****d!, you would do better
> > to go to another dealer" That from someone in the same workplace!!
> >
> > Back to the parts counter. Same story. Brings up a screen showing
> > 1986 Transit 4 Speed in big red letters across the top.
> > "This is the gearbox fitted to the 1989 5 speed 2.0l Sierra"
> > "Why does it say 4 speed"
> > "Oh, that's a misprint"
> >
> > Time to give up! Problem is that the next nearest dealership is 30
> > miles away!!
> >
> > Guy
> > Sorry if the vehicle types doesn't make sense overseas, but I guess
> > you can get the gist of it!
>
> --
> Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
> macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
> System Administrator/Manager
> Neuropsychiatry Section
> Department of Psychiatry
> University of Pennsylvania
> 3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
> --Mark Twain
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