Chrome plated muffler bearings.
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Chrome plated muffler bearings.
This has got to be the classic dumb question at every parts house I've ever been to. No matter what I ask for it seems that whether or not the vehicle has A/C is a crucial point.
I needed the rubber front brake lines for a '72 1/2 ton. They wanted to know what engine it had, when I told him it didn't make any difference, he insisted he had to have the engine size or he couldn't look them up. So I told him 225. "You mean 240?" No I mean 225 out of a '75 Dodge Dart and I don't know what the original engine was. Amazingly enough he was able to find them.
Trail Rider
I needed the rubber front brake lines for a '72 1/2 ton. They wanted to know what engine it had, when I told him it didn't make any difference, he insisted he had to have the engine size or he couldn't look them up. So I told him 225. "You mean 240?" No I mean 225 out of a '75 Dodge Dart and I don't know what the original engine was. Amazingly enough he was able to find them.
Trail Rider
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Chrome plated muffler bearings.
Trail Rider, that's just because they need to answer the computer's questions so the computer can move onto the next steps to locate the (correct?) part number. Parts houses can't get good people for the wages they pay.
The funniest one I ever heard of was a true story told by a friend of mine who worked at one of those oil and tire shops:
One day a woman called on the phone asking how much oil her car was supposed to take with the oil change she was trying to perform. She told my friend that she poured all twelve quarts of the case into the engine and it still wasn't full to the top (she did re-install the drain plug). Fortunately, she never started the engine before my friend explained to her what the dipstick was for.
The funniest one I ever heard of was a true story told by a friend of mine who worked at one of those oil and tire shops:
One day a woman called on the phone asking how much oil her car was supposed to take with the oil change she was trying to perform. She told my friend that she poured all twelve quarts of the case into the engine and it still wasn't full to the top (she did re-install the drain plug). Fortunately, she never started the engine before my friend explained to her what the dipstick was for.
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Chrome plated muffler bearings.
Here's one for ya!
A customer calls wanting how to get the antifreeze back in the lower radiator hose.....
He had bought the replacement hose...but was at a loss on how to get coolant back in the radiator...after all, he said....the cap said 'Do Not Open!'
True story!
A customer calls wanting how to get the antifreeze back in the lower radiator hose.....
He had bought the replacement hose...but was at a loss on how to get coolant back in the radiator...after all, he said....the cap said 'Do Not Open!'
True story!
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Chrome plated muffler bearings.
Every time we get a new employee, on one of the first couple of pizzas we make we will punch a hole the through the doughwhile tossing it. Then we turn to the new guy and say, "Go in the back and get a dough repair kit." He'll ransack the cooler and come out and say, "I can't find it"
If we are in a good mood, we will have a couple of pieces of dough cut out, pressed into squares and wrapped in aluminum foil. If we are in a bad mood or bored, first we make them call our other two stores (they are in on the joke, we don't need a patch kit, actually you can just press the hole together and mush it down) and see if they have a Dough repair kit. Then we make then call the other pizza stores in town (who are also in on the joke), and we will make then drive to the other store (all the time thinking the customer is waiting on them to get the repair kit so we can make the pizza) and get a kit. We they get back we are ROTFL.
fordmando
78 F-150 4x4 400 4 on floor
86 Nissan 300ZX
George
If we are in a good mood, we will have a couple of pieces of dough cut out, pressed into squares and wrapped in aluminum foil. If we are in a bad mood or bored, first we make them call our other two stores (they are in on the joke, we don't need a patch kit, actually you can just press the hole together and mush it down) and see if they have a Dough repair kit. Then we make then call the other pizza stores in town (who are also in on the joke), and we will make then drive to the other store (all the time thinking the customer is waiting on them to get the repair kit so we can make the pizza) and get a kit. We they get back we are ROTFL.
fordmando
78 F-150 4x4 400 4 on floor
86 Nissan 300ZX
George
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