I'm not ready to make nice...(long)

[smithma7 at gmail.com (Mike Smith)]

Sounds like the guy was an ass, knew nothing, got caught knowing
nothing, and was pissed that you showed him up.  Go Cathy!  I love
giving people hell when I know I'm 100% right and they're just being
PITAs.  Now on to the important stuff...

Legend?  Pizza Rant?  Do Tell!

(And Julie, after today's fun, she's GOT to have a better tomorrow. :)

On 3/16/07, julie@menloparkrandd.com <julie@menloparkrandd.com> wrote:
> Phew. I thought facing 12-14" of snow was bad. My day now looks rosie!
> Hope tomorrow is better for you Cath :)
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca]
> >Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 08:41 PM
> >To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Subject: I'm not ready to make nice...(long)
> >
> >Well, here goes a nice rant. WAY too long since I had one, isn't it?
> >Anyway, I went out seeking an intake manifold for one of the many projects
> >around here, and since I have time off this week, I get to be parts bitch.
> >The only place we could find one was two hours distant. So I phoned first
> >to determine that it was the correct one, he gave me a price that was $45
> >less than just the top half was available for locally. So I thought I'd
> >better clarify that it was both halves.
> >(His part of the conversation in quotes, mine between, actions in brackets)
> >"Which manifold do you want, intake or exhaust?" Intake, and I clarify
> >engine code/model years etc. "It's one piece, and that's the price" My
> >computer shows it as two parts. "(aggressive tone) M'aam, we do this all
> >day long and I don't care what your computer says, it's one piece". And you
> >have one? "Yes". So I'm thinking they remove it with the mid gasket intact,
> >as one piece, fine.
> >Off I go the next day (today), a two hour drive. I get there, there isn't
> >one already detached, but there's one bolted to a block on the floor. I am
> >then offered one of the black air intake hoses as the intake manifold.
> >Mildly insulting. Nope, says I, I want an intake manifold (point to
> >manifold). Which the nice guys with the wrenches then extract and place in
> >the box I brought. It's got all sorts of vaccuum stuff hanging from it, but
> >I figured they'd just as soon have me dispose of that stuff, since they
> >would have to anyway.
> >So now I wait for the nice guy I talked to on the phone, after a good
> >fifteen minutes of me patiently waiting in the narrow space between the
> >piles of car parts and the "counter", he finally comes out to collect
> >payment. "Where's the stuff" Here in the box. "This is the intake manifold
> >(picks up upper half) This is not the intake manifold (picks up lower
> >half)" I asked on the phone if it was both parts "(he stands up taller in
> >order to tower over me/spaces himself within my personal space/raises his
> >voice to a good yell) Ma'am, now don't you give me any attitude. THIS is
> >the manifold. Not that other stuff. So you told me you wanted a manifold,
> >not this other stuff" I explain in my best calm but firm teacher voice that
> >I'd asked if it was both halves, and this 'other stuff' is the lower half.
> >"No it isn't, this is the manifold, this isn't" (I extract the printout
> >from that 'software which shall remain nameless' from my back pocket) This
> >refers to it as the lower manifold. "(pause) So did you want the other
> >stuff or not?" Just the manifold, both halves, you can take the hoses off
> >if you like. He stomps off with the parts, to the back, tinkers for an
> >excessively long time to remove a few vaccuum lines. Leaves the injectors
> >in, they are not an issue it seems. But those vaccuum lines, wow those have
> >resale value....I pay the agreed upon price, and drive home hopping mad.
> >So the sum of that was that I asked for a price on an item, showed the guys
> >with the wrenches what I wanted, and got that item at the price quoted. Why
> >in the hell the attitude? I really thought he'd have felt better if he
> >could just hit me. And I do fights as a weekly part of my job (I work in a
> >rough school), I'm a pretty good judge of aggression by now. I did nothing
> >to provoke the attitude, of that I'm sure. Except maybe being born with
> >that one hunk of a chromosome that was a wee bit too long to suit him.
> >
> >Anyway, I survived. Most parts guys are decent, but once in a while you hit
> >a beaut. What this man did NOT know was that I'd skipped lunch. And those
> >who know me understand that is not a good thing to mess with. I'm certain
> >that the legend of the "pizza rant" still lives around here :)
> >Cathy
> >
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Mike
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