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



So.... Was this a 16v manifold? 8-)
Anyway sounds like a JackKnock.  Whatz really sad is that as you quoted "He 
does that for a living"!!!! LOL
It's only a hobby for you and you smoked him. LOL
Guess he's really not very good at his job. LOL

Cheers
David
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Smith" <smithma7@gmail.com>
To: <julie@menloparkrandd.com>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: I'm not ready to make nice...(long)


> 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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