jJim McLaughlin wrote:
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Manager sends clerk, "Danielle" off for a "break".
I wind up, at no charge, with four 2 packs, 8 bulbs total of something
called
N:Vision 65 nominal watt floods in return for the one dead bulb that had
lasted 62 whole day. Seven year guaranty on these.
He obviously saw the light....
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I did something equally ludicrous this month, but it didn't work out
worth a damn for me:
A few years ago, while ordering some stuff from Harbor Freight, I made
an impulse purchase of a "Stove Bolt Assortment":
http://tinyurl.com/2upx27
I figured there's gonna be a day when I'd need several "matching"
fasteners rather that the hodge podge I usually dig out of my "Hell Box".
A couple of weekends ago when I was bonding with young son under the
hood of his '95 Civic and we needed a half dozen small bolts and nuts to
fasten some sheet metal in place.
I got out the HF assortment, selected some 10-24 RH screws and hex nuts
and started to install the first one while the kid held the pieces in
alignment.
The space was tight (What space under the hood of a car isn't these
days?) and I couldn't get the first nut started. I pulled the screw and
nut out and went to thread them together in front of my nose. "No go". I
took a close look at the nut. I was shocked, shocked to find NO THREADS!!!
Every damn 10-24 nut in the box had missed the threading operation
somewhere on the other side of the world.
Since only the screw heads were visible, I scrounged a variety of 10-24
nuts from my lifelong collection and we finished the job with them.
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Totally for ****s and grins I dashed off a letter to HF and Scotch taped
a couple of the unthreaded nuts onto it. I explained that when I
received the Stove Bolt Assortment a couple of years ago I noticed the
unthreaded nuts but assumed that the threads were "on backorder" and
would be delivered later.
I asked them to please look into it and tell me when I might expect the
backordered threads to ship. I couldn't wait to find out what I'd hear
back from them.
Yesterday I received a reply from an HF customer service twit, probably
a first cousin to your "Danielle", whom God had obviously gifted with
boobs instead of brains. She wasted a paragraph of text explaining that
they couldn't find my original order for the product and thus were
unable to help me; So sorry.
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Have you guys noticed that a good sense of humor usually denotes a
person with higher intelligence and that the dummies just "don't get it"
when you try and get a laugh out of them?
Jeff
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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.