RE: Did'ja ever...?

[renarac@domain.elided (Owen Minor - Egghead Software Tacoma)]

Thats what you people get for supporting Shuchks, Al"s, Kraagen,GreaseMonkey,Checker, PepBoys, GI Joes, ect and not your local small guy parts house. How are most of the small places survive today? Doing Jobber suppply to your local repair shops. The people that do it for a living don't have the time/money to risk on some hairlip to give them the wrong part.
Talk with your dollars. Don't encourage idiots.

Owen Minor
Tacoma,WA
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   >From:    	Johnny Hinman <jhinman@domain.elided>
   >To:        	ihc@domain.elided
   >Subject:    	Did'ja ever...?
   >Date:    	Sun, Nov 9, 1997 10:30 AM
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   >        I needed a headlight for my Scout, so I went to the closest parts
   >place, an affiliate with one of the chain parts stores.
   >        "I need a headlight for a truck that uses the two round headlight
   >system," I told the lady behind the computer.  I had forgotten that it was a
   >2D1 headlight but that probably would not have mattered.
   >        "What does it go on, " she asked.
   >        "Oh boy," I thought, "here we go."
   >        "It's on a '79 International Scout."
   >        She looked at her computer for a minute or so, then asked her
   >coworker "What does International come under?"
   >        So her coworker said "Here, you do this and I'll look it up in the
   >book." 
   >        Look up a headlight in the book!!??!!?
   >        There was a time when I could go into this same building and tell
   >Charlie what I wanted and as often as not he would get it off the shelf
   >without having to look it up.  Did'ja ever have a parts man like that?  I
   >sure miss him.
   >        When I was young, I thought that I knew everything.  What I didn't
   >know, I could find out quickly.  Now that I've gotter older, I wonder why
   >none of the young people (present company excepted :-) ) working behind the
   >counters of the country seem to know anything at all.
   >        Did'ja ever wonder...
   >
   >        Thanks for the bandwidth,
   >        I needed it this time.
   >        Cheers,
   >        Johnny B
   >jhinman@domain.elided
   >'79 Scout II (daily driver)
   >'69 TR6 (future project)
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