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

Subject: I'm not ready to make nice...(long)
From: roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)
Date: Sat Mar 17 06:24:34 2007
In-reply-to: <005401c767e4$dec38b30$6801a8c0@dell992371913e>
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On 12:05 pm 03/16/07 "David Brown" <sharpshooter33@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> So.... Was this a 16v manifold? 8-)

It's connected to the kid's 16V project, yes. But no. Clear as mud? Good!
(I'm not telling... :P  )

Cathy


> 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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References:
- I'm not ready to make nice...(long)
  - From: julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)
- I'm not ready to make nice...(long)
  - From: smithma7 at gmail.com (Mike Smith)
- I'm not ready to make nice...(long)
  - From: sharpshooter33 at roadrunner.com (David Brown)

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