My REAL customer base? I think not.....

[Jadedcarguy]

I covered the remedial counter for about 20 minutes today. My tangent of fate crossed with douchenozzle streams.

I love cars. LOOOOVVVVEEEE them, hence my user name. I hate other car guys. It's kind of sad, really, but here's my reason:


They all think that because they think that a certain car or style of car(rat rod, barf/ 55-57 Chevy, played out/ any year Camaro, ubiquitous) is cool, everyone else automatically does. That would be incorrect. Thanks for playing. Not trying to insult anyone who likes any of the cars I mentioned, but not everyone likes them the same way. Deal with it.

I had a couple of "old school" car guys with the played out variety of hot rod(57 Chevy, how I'm apathetic to thee) come in today and ask a series of questions about a crate engine that GM just released. It's an aluminum block 427. Fine, questions are cool, they help in the buying process, especially when the engine in question is about $9000 estimated, Chevy hasn't even released pricing on it yet. I do my homework too.

They then drop a 5 pound sledge on my head: "Yeah, we're your real customers. To hell with all these asses driving new Chevy's. We're the real deal."

And why is that, you ask? Because they have enthusiasm. Right. I asked him what his newest Chevy/GM vehicle was. A 1960. As in Nineteen-Fucking-Sixty. Older than me.

OK, ass. You're my real customer base, as opposed to the people who drive new cars and come in for oil changes and warranty work and wiper blades and broken widgets and what-all-else. Those people are my paycheck, my proverbial bread-and-butter. You, with your possibility of buying a crate motor, are my "wouldn't it be nice if". I can't pay the power bill with that. Don't insult me with your mental masturbation.

I don't get paid on enthusiasm. If I did, I'd be a millionaire already.

Sorry if I sound a little too irritated by these douches, but their pompous asshattery was enough to piss me off for the rest of the day.

END RANT.

[scroob]

Quoth Jadedcarguy

Don't insult me with your mental masturbation.

great line

[portia911]

I love people who think they are more important to your business than they will every hope to be. Generally they give their cunning ruse away with the line "I must be one of your best customers"

[Jadedcarguy]

Quoth portia911

Generally they give their cunning ruse away with the line "I must be one of your best customers"

Oh yeah. I had one a few months ago who decided that Chevy should pay him.

Why, you ask?

He went drag racing with his damn Nova(a beat down clapped-out piece of shit if I ever saw one) and beat a couple of Fords. He decided that this "advertising" while Ford guys were present warranted a paycheck from Chevy. I'm sure he was just rambling aimlessly, but deep down you know he thought he deserved it.

[portia911]

[QUOTE=I'm sure he was just rambling aimlessly, but deep down you know he thought he deserved it.QUOTE]

Of course he deserved it! I can't believe they did'nt see this brilliant marketing opportunity involved in this! I was talking to one of my customers who runs a car accessory strore and he gets at least one moron a day wanting free stuff or money for their stock/drag car racing

[Jadedcarguy]

Quoth portia911

.......he gets at least one moron a day wanting free stuff or money for their stock/drag car racing

In my early parts days, I worked for a mail order go-fast parts house( a couple of them actually, no I'm not in Ohio ). On any given day I would field a couple of calls from some grassroots drag race douche who wanted sponsorship for his 15-second Mustang or whatever. Never mind that our catalog had specific instructions on how to apply for sponsorship, calling the commissioned salesperson is a surefire way to piss me off get a paycheck. Sure.

[draftermatt]

Ah the old car snobs.

I love the vast majority of vehicles built in the 50's, 60's, and some of the 70's. Sadly I no longer own any as I don't have the time, space, or finances for it. That said,

I have some friends like these guys. "Hurr, I don't make payments on my vehicles, all of mine have historic tags, I just put the money in to keep 'em running that you make in payments"

Though that number of friends has dropped over the years once they realize that I'm still driving that Jeep we got in 2002 while they're on car/truck #4 in that time span because they drive it like it's new and can take the abuse.

[rerant]

Why do I hate these kinds of people?
They assume that because I have a uterus I could not possibly know anything about cars.
OK, I'll admit, what I don't know could fill a warehouse, but don't assume I know nothing, because there are a handfull of cars I do know about.
The classic car guys I've encountered have basically given me the, "Little girl, save the big talk for the men," attitude.
Infuriating.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Quoth rerant

The classic car guys I've encountered have basically given me the, "Little girl, save the big talk for the men," attitude.
Infuriating.

Indeed, and I WORK in car parts.
Patronize me cuz I'm NEW, not cuz my balls happen to have retracted into my abdomen.


Forgive me for not knowing that when you said wheel cylinder you meant a Caliper, axehole. (for the car impaired, that's two different pieces altogether)

[wagegoth]

I owned a 1975 VW Rabbit (the first year they were imported) until it was killed in 1984. I was having some problems one day starting it in a parking lot. All these men came over to help the little girl (my husband, a true car aficianado, was still inside the store). NOT ONE of these guys could find the carburetor, apparently because the air filter was not on top of it, but to the side, something very unusual back then. Pretty frikkin' hysterical.

Turned out later to be the starter. And I knew it wasn't the carburetor from the symptoms. It was definitely not anything having to do with the fuel system.