LAC Rant

[sdewitt at stx.rr.com]

Your mad at Grainger for doing business in a manner they have always 
done. Grainger is a business to business supplier. Get a grip and loose 
the language. Find someone with an account then have them buy it and 
pick it up.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lyle <lws at o-o.yi.org>
Date: Friday, June 3, 2005 12:18 pm
Subject: LAC Rant

> I've got a torn CV joint boot, and I can't find a single goddamn 
> retailer in
> Pittsburgh who has a 17mm hex socket or an Allen wrench in stock.  
> Not even
> the SnapOn dealer!  Grainger has about three different kinds in 
> stock.  I
> walked a mile and a half in the rain to the nearest branch in a lousy
> industrial park (and a mile and half home, natch) and the 
> motherfuckerswouldn't sell me one despite my pleading,  because I 
> didn't have two forms
> of "business id".  Four staffers, sitting there with their thumbs 
> up their
> asses, and they can't take my money because I'm just a citizen, 
> not a
> corporation.  Maybe all of a sudden four big accounts might walk 
> in and need
> immediate simultaneous service?  
> 
> If I walk back a half mile, set up a "business checking account" 
> and get a
> "business credit card", and come back in two weeks after I get those
> credentials of worthiness, then they'll gladly sell me the same 
> fourteendollar tool.  WTF? 
> 
> (PS.  the Snap-On tool
> http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?
P65=&tool=shop&item_ID=12032&group_I
> D=1611&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog is not 17mm.  It's 17.15 or
> thereabouts, according to my cheap Chinese vernier caliper, and I 
> don't want
> to grind the chrome plating off it. I haven't tried it on a 
> transmissionplug yet, but it definitely won't fit my axle nut.)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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