KC2IXE
Flashaholic*
To: GarageBoy & KC21XE -
The shop is actually a keyosck in a small mall. It's on Main Street in Flushing Queens. ...snip....
That the Mall on the East side of the street, about 1-2 blocks north of Roosvelt?
To: GarageBoy & KC21XE -
The shop is actually a keyosck in a small mall. It's on Main Street in Flushing Queens. ...snip....
Maybe the employee should just ask, "How can I not help you today?"
May we all be blessed and not exposed to lowly retail sales people, fast food workers, janitors, or any of those other low-life entry-level position type ignoramuses. That's not what you're meaning to say? It can sure go that way easily.
Now the thread is reaching the point of simply adopting retail sales people as "lesser-beings", and giving someone toward whom we can practice snobbery.
Voicing a concern about a problem, trend or person in a particular store or trade, and voicing a concern about the value of the people in the trade is a different matter.
Best line about RatShack I've heard so far: "Radio Shack - you've got questions, we've got cellphones."
A related phenomena is the 'competency aura' where being good at one field makes us think we're more capable than we are in another. We feel superior to someone who assumes he can fix his computer because he's a good MD, but have no problems telling the rest of the world how to do their jobs better :ironic:
i was at a store whose specialist is in batteries.
i asked the store owner for 14500 li ion protected.
he was like "huh? i don't think they exist in li ion, maybe primary"
you can imagine the look on my face
I'm dying to see what would happen at AutoZonedOut if the local electric car club brought in one of their cars.
This could get to be fun. Picture this -- A guy walks into a parts shop and asks for parts for his old Mazda RX4 rotary sedan. They ask how many cylinders. He says none. They ask if it was a single or double overhead cam engine. He says none. They ask how many valves it had. None. You must be wrong -- how's it supposed to work without cylinders or valves? He says it doesn't even have any pistons either. They think he's pulling their leg. He asks for two coils and four plugs for the twin rotors. What? He says it's a rotary. They ask what time the meetings were. No, no, no, not rotary like Elk or Moose, it's a Wankel engine. Hey, ya perv, watch the language!
I won't relay what I said next.
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