I’m getting old

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I worked at a Pep Boys in high school, behind the parts counter with retired rail road guys who customers would approached first at the other end of the counter, then the rail road guys would walk over and ask me. An old lady (must have been 30 something) came in asking about a plug that goes in the radiator. I flipped through (we had a rack of books back then) and mentioned the pet **** but kept looking. I looked up and she was gone (long walk to the front door. Must have ran away). Her husband shows up shouting from the front doors. I ask him to come back and I will show him in the book. He shouts less loudly then also runs away. Must have been the shame.
 
DoctorT said:
Not A-body related but I was at the dragstrip with my "65 hemi Coronet and the hood was off. A kid with a late model Mustang was pitted next to me. He walked over, took peek in the engine compartment and asked "is that a big block Chevy?" I was stunned.
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When I was in my early 20`s I had a 53 Ford truck, a friend looked at my engine and said "man that thing`s got a Hemi" lol
 
joel d. snyder said:
i did have a '56 ford truck with a 283 chevy in it.
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53 was their 50th anniversary, it had a really cool horn button stating that.
56 is sought after now cause of the wrap around windshield and last of that generation. I`d wouldn`t mind a nice example of either one.
 
Workingdog1 said:
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I went ballistic at NAPA a while back over a package of plug wire separators.
In stock, they had one package in blue and one in black which didn’t matter but 2 wire, 3 wire, 4 wire one of each in a package (set of 3)

Problem was I needed 2 of each and the big ape couldn't comprehend my dilemma of matching colors and my frustration. I would have bought 2 packages iF they had them.The ape followed me damn near out the door trying to convince me it would work.

I don't recall my response, cuss words etc but it wasn’t pretty and the irony is the same thing happened months earlier at O'Reilly, 1 of blue 1 of black UGH !!!
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We have a store in town, called ABC warehouse

They sell mostly electronics, but their gimmic is the haggling (which isn't my Forte anyway)

Well, I go in there one day to buy a TV
I find one and ask him what the price is

He goes 350

Ok, ill give you 275 for it

He goes, these go for 400 at Walmart

Hey, if I were shopping at Walmart I'd gladly pay sticker because that's their business model, but not paying sticker here

He goes, well the TV is 350

So I say out the door right?

No, he says, you gotta ad sales tax

So I explain to him I'm not paying sticker and I surely ain't paying his sales tax because he's the one making a sale not me

Well then he started yelling and what not, so I just left

But he followed me out into the parking lot, still yelling, going on and on about how I don't understand how the business works and that I'm trying to take food of of his families table

I just got in my car and flicked the safety off, but he decided to leave it at that
 
i try to turn it into a game. i go thru all their questions, one at a time. when they say they dont have , cant get ,etc, then itsd time to start over with another model/vehicle that also uses the same part. takes time but they dont question me to much now. but i do get frustrated with the prices. 15 for a dist rotor ( and had to explain what it does/is)
 
Anyone else miss the days when this was the computer? We have a store in town that still uses them...
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1WildRT said:
Anyone else miss the days when this was the computer? We have a store in town that still uses them...View attachment 1716343975
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My local still uses this method instead of the computer most of the time, they also stock parts that fit my 70 model Val where our local big chain mob no longer stock parts for cars over 7 to 9 years old
 
abdywgn said:
when the evening was slow or Sunday during football games, I'd look thru them to see what all a company carried or went down to the performance rack and dreamed about which parts to order.
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Same here. Slow nights, rainy/snowy days, early mornings...anytime it was slow. Made the time go by faster, and I got to learn the books better, which was a win-win for me., as we couldn't look things up on a computer back then.

And I hate to come-off as bragging, but I got pretty damn good at it!

I kinda miss those days sometimes.
 
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Mostly all the "service industry " workers are now fast food worker types. "Fries with that?" is about all you'll get for expertise... :thumbsup:
 
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