[DeTomaso] no one knows anything.. be glad it's not yourdoctor(eeks, sometimes it is)

Jerry R Knotts knottsj at galstar.com
Wed Aug 8 00:11:36 EDT 2007


I went in to get parts for my '94 Lightning pick up in about '98 and one of 
the salesmen on the floor wanted to know why I named my truck.  But thought 
it looked with the big back tires,

E-I-E-I-O is a real zip here,
jerry knotts
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark McWhinney" <msm at portata.com>
To: <LaurieFerrari at aol.com>; <Konrad.Szwab at AlconLabs.com>; 
<Detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] no one knows anything.. be glad it's not 
yourdoctor(eeks, sometimes it is)


>I went through that exercise a few weeks ago getting a gel battery ...
> "what size battery does a 'gel' take?"
>
>
> My all time favorite parts store folly is a display of wheels on the wall 
> at
> Pepboys.  49 chrome wheels marked "Racing Wheels" and one Bassett-style 
> 15"
> black steel not marked as a racing wheel.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] 
> On
> Behalf Of LaurieFerrari at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 4:30 PM
> To: Konrad.Szwab at AlconLabs.com; Detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] no one knows anything.. be glad it's not your
> doctor(eeks, sometimes it is)
>
>
> That's charming and I find the fellows know nothing  either.  Going for
> Dexron other day @ Kragen, guy says we're totally  out,  then I peek in 
> back
> of
> shelf and see cases upon cases of the  stuff.  They just have a new name 
> for
> it,
> Dex/Merc   (and, no, not for the P). But worse yet is Fry's Electronics 
> (my
> other  home).  Every time I'm there I listen to salesmen tell customers
> we're
> out of things that are always in their big colorful ads, while I've seen
> stacks of whatever it is lined up on display in remote parts of store.  I
> wait
> 'til salesman leaves and cust. is searching for an alternative item,  and
> say,
> "Excuse me but please come with me."  Happy cust. every  time.
> Laurie (when I retire from teaching I can always work for Fry's  with much
> experience.)
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> I went to Autozone and got 8 Motorcraft SP-450 / ASF42C as I saw in a
>
> previous post here plus a fuel filter. Not without annoyance since all I
>
> get from saleswomen in car parts stores is "I do not know" or "I am not
>
> a mechanic" until I manage to fight my way to the computer screen and
>
> see the classifications they looked at with the eyes glazed over.
>
>
>
> But I should not vent my anger on ignorant sales droids.
>
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