This is so far off topic,,, but,,, Retail sucks these days, in all the industry.Well,, H E double L! Maybe I am getting cynical in my old age, but I really HATE retail people who either don’t know what they are talking about or just flat lie to you!!! My neighbor, who happens to be a legal Mexican living in the US, wanted to put up a simple TV antenna. So, I called the local Rat Shack and they told me they had the antenna there in the store. So, we drove up there to get it.. Of course not the one we needed,, which is a simple UHF/VHF antenna, popular in the US.. So the manager or what ever he is, said he was going to lunch in a few minutes and would stop at another store and pick up one. Neighbor and I went back to his house, put up the pole, the antenna clamp on house and ran the cable into the house. I left to get some dinner and he went to get antenna.. Came back and as I was finishing up eating he opened the box. When we started assembling the system, it was just an UHF part for some antenna.. Nothing like we needed or like we had requested, WITH the part number.. Grrrrr… So, got the right part number, again, then spend I know 25 minutes on the phone with yet another manager who assured me SHE knew what she was talking about and more importantly what I was talking about.. Said they did not have that part in house and would have me one in store on Monday…. Jeeze,,, Never one word of apology, … nothing about how sorry they were that I had to drive 30 minutes up there.. Tell you what, that part better be in the store Monday by 5 pm, as promised… Whew,, Ok, I feel better now… OK off soap box now… BTW, I did get great progress made on putting in the cabinets and workbench in the barn/shop today. As soon as it warms again here in Texas will finish it up and post up pictures.. Warm in Texas again, today we set a record high of 88 degrees DFW area, and the bottom falls out the next couple days.. good ole Texas weather,, like they say, if you don’t like it, just wait 10 minutes.
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