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Just last week I went into an auto parts store and asked if they had any NGK BP7ES or BP8ES spark plugs. The guy asked 'what's it for', I told him it didn't matter because I gave him the part numbers....He stood there blank, not knowing what to do so I relented and said " they are for an Austin Healey -now, do you feel better?" Then he asked "does it have a radio?" Thats when I turned and left.... I may not know much but I do know when I am about to loose my temper.

Then there was the time about 20 years ago when A kid in a Shucks store actually refused to sell me a group 24 battery because it was not listed as fitting a Healey - either I had to order the correct one or go somewhere else.

Both are true stories.

Dave Phillips
 
I tell them its a kit car made up of old odds and ends from everywhere (it's almost true, that!)- that shuts them up. Usually. :devilgrin:
 
Not once, but TWICE when I ordered fish and chips I've had waitresses ask, "Would you like fries with that?"

All I could do is stare and dumbly nod my head.
 
Yeah, just a couple days ago I asked for a Bosch type 5 pin relay at Autozone. The guy needed to know what it was for. I told him "it doesn't matter, that's the relay that nearly all manufacturers use." He insisted he couldn't look it up without knowing the car. I gave up at that point and went to O'Reilly's. They had one but wanted $22 for it with the socket. I got it at Circuit City for $3.70 but did have to wait overnight for shipment.
 
One of my lab instructors in college was baffled because we should have had current in our circuit, but kept getting no current. We were trying to measure an AC current using an AC ammeter. So the lab instructor helpfully reversed the leads to get the right polarity. I asked him if he thought that might help. "It might! You never know!".
 
I worked in a hardware store in high school. A guy came in and asked for an adjustable wrench so for fun I asked him if he wanted standard or metric. He answered.
 
ChrisS said:
I worked in a hardware store in high school. A guy came in and asked for an adjustable wrench so for fun I asked him if he wanted standard or metric. He answered.
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You should have added "left or right handed?"


Believe it or not, I have gotten someone on going out to look for a bucket of "jet wash."
 
I went to an Auto Zone the other day to get the LED version of 1157 bulbs for the lights on my boat trailer. I asked the guy behind the counter where could I find them. He hit me with the same "What's it for?" question. "I can't look it up unless I know the year, make and model." So I told him "Somewhere in this store you have a display of LED lighting supplies, where is it?" He pointed to it and I walked over to it and what do you know, there they were. ARGGGGHHHHH.

On a lighter note, the college I went to had a Printing School and the running prank there was to send freshmen to get cans of checkered ink and plate stretchers..... :smile:
 
I was an automatic transmission technician at a huge Chevy dealer many years ago. 2 stalls over, was an old curmudgeon brake specialist whom management stuck with a rosy-cheeked freshie from trade school. One day, I was in the parts department ordering parts, when this kid asked one of the other parts guys for a bucket of steam! The astute parts guy looked at his screen as if looking this up, and exclaimed that the steam buckets had been discontinued and replaced by canisters; and those were on back-order.... which this kid went out and told the brake man! :lol:
 
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