Glad to see it worked out. If I was get help from a member like you gave I would go out of my way to at least say thank you and ask what I could do in return. I have had a member get on me for not letting him know I was doing a large job on my truck and that he would have drove an hour to help or let me go to his place to do the job. But I am the type where if I can do it myself I don't want to make anyone go out of thier way for
me. Like you did for the member not to be named. You deserved at least a thank you and a promp acknowlegement. You and others like you are what make this sight what it is today.

 

I feel bad myself about something. Someone sent me a mirror and I deleted me PM's since it was getting full, and his was in there and didn't get to send him a PM back becasue I didn't know who sent me the mirror. I don't remember his screen name to thank him. But thanks to everyone here for being so nice, handing out info on our trucks is great plus the usefull tools to fix them is hands down awsome.

 

After all the stuff I've seen you give away, I'm surprised you have anything left to offer.

I've given away some fuel drain o-rings and didn't get so much as a thank you in response. That kind of rubbed me the wrong way. The guy's not very active here and he disappeared for 9 months till his next issue. I wasn't as helpful to him the next time around.

Glad to hear this guy is active here and has sent the PM now.

So if you're trying to kick the smokes, does that mean we'll be hearing lots more rants from you as you go through this? If so, bring them on.

 

Ron you are a champ. Way to be buddy.

 

Glad it got worked out Ron, been there and I know how it feels but it won't stop me from helping or offering the majority here, reps to you and your kindness.

 

Note: The following statement is made to articulate a point and not to belittle or defame any specific person or make anyone feel attacked.

It also seems to be pretty common to bash on the young here just because they're young. I fail to see where age was any part of this until you guys made it one. I could have missed that part and I'll readily admit my fault if it was but until then I'm sticking behind my previous statement. Now this isn't entirely directed at you specifically this is addressing the anti-youth sentiment on the entire boards here.

Drawing off my own personal experiences in working retail I'd have to say that the middle aged crowd was FAR more rude than the younger or more middle aged crowd. The middle aged crowd seemed to think they were so much better than everyone else and everyone else was in their way.

I personally ran the itty bitty store there and am 17 years old. It was an orchard store so people would ask me about what type of apples to use in a pie, etc. The older crowd would ask and would genuinely listen to what I had to say and would ask questions as to why I recommended a certain type for a certain application. The middle aged crowd would treat me as if I was stupid just because I'm young.

Perfect example is my boss would walk through the store headed back to the packing line and make sure I was doing ok and didn't need anything re-stocked. The middle aged/older crowd would ask him what he would recommend for such and such. he would then tell them to ask me I'd be able to help them as much as he would. They'd then either ignore me or be very snotty with me in asking then not take any recommendation I had.

A younger person holding a door was a far more common occurrence than anyone older holding one from my observations. I saw two ten-speed riding spandex wearing types walk right through a door and not hold a door for a woman with a walker. No way they could've not seen her. I had to run around my counter and open the door for her.

The epitome of rudeness and lack of common courtesy, in my opinion, was the people who would come in to the store there and buy a couple apples and something to drink and go outside and sit on the retaining wall near the store there and eat their stuff then just LEAVE their trash there. Nothing wrong with sitting there for a little while and enjoying the day tons of people would. Yet every young person who came in and did something like that would walk back inside and ask me if I had a trash can they could use. I did have one behind my counter and it became a routine with a group of kids (probably 12-14 years old) who would ride their bikes there.

Then I've had elderly people who would get angry at ME because they have no senior citizen discount there. Apparently some people think that being old gives them some type of entitlement the rest of us lack.

And of course there were a few jerk kids but overall I'd have to say the most rude group of people was the middle-aged soccer mom/business man type who thought their time was more valuable than anyone else's and everyone else was just in their way. Now I'm not saying EVERYONE in that age bracket is like that. Then I'd be doing exactly what I'm arguing against. I just found that group to be more rude than older or younger people. I am not making a blanket statement about that group.

I guess what I'm trying to say is don't issue blanket statements like that because some of us aren't like that. Every age bracket has its bad apples but you can't judge the actions of an entire group just based on the bad actions of a few.

Thanks for taking the time to read my disjointed rambling rant.

 

Guess what Pete. The younger crowd has been and will be blamed for lots of stuff, and the younger crowd will always believe the issues lie more with the older generations. Don't take it too personal. My baby girls is several years older than you and my generation of youngsters was accused of the same type of stuff. 20 or 30 years from now you'll be complaining about the young kids. (I just hope they've learned to pull up their pants by then.)

 

But after meeting a couple of the young guns we have with us here,i was impressed with them..just my.02 worth

 

Nice to hear he owned up, nice to here!!!!!!!

 

Chris, I see where you're coming from but what gets me is that no mention of age was made yet people go off on rants about young people. Completely un-called for.

 

I have to say that Chris made me a CCV canister and it arrived at my home a couple of days ago...I told Chris when he made it that I was a little on the broke side, but when I could would pay him for the amount we settled on. All this week I have been losing sleep b/c I knew I had the money to pay for it this Friday and I didnt want Chris to think I was skipping out on him! My girlfriend first thing tmrw morning is off to get a moneyorder to send off to Chris. Thanks agian PonyBoyChris...looking forward to meeting someday soon.

 

Yeah Pete, i totally agree man, age had nothing to do with this thread, then all of the sudden the topic of "youngsters" comes up.

 

It's a side effect of getting "old" my friend. You will become the same way eventually. Instead of taking offense, try to listen and see if there are any interesting stories you can pick up.

I've got a neighbor who's 85 who thinks I'm still a child. I used to have a neighbor that was born in 1903. His memory wasn't all that great, but I sure wish I would have wrote down or recorded more of his stories. He used to tell me about the first time he rode a horse into town. The first automobile he say, where the Indians used to camp out near me. When he first got indoor plumbing and when electricity and phones were run out to where I live.

I guess my point is don't take things so personal and try to think of each conversation with us old farts as a learning experience.


Sorry to go off topic Ron, but it sounds like you got the major issues settled.

 

Pete, you are absolutely correct. My own 'sub rant' should have gone somewhere else, and wrongly assuming the situation was due to a younger individual was ignorant on my part. My sincerest apologies to you and anyone else offended by that.

 

Hey Big Joe, no reason to lose sleep my friend. We're good so absolutely no worries. You explained your situation and we shook hands on the deal - just through cell phones...

Just look me up when your in town, deal??? HA!