About 1/2 done planting corn, it rained all day yesterday, & conditions were pretty wet to start with.... Typical farmer-anxiety on that, you all know how a person feels.
So yesterday I drove 80 miles to go shopping for an item, which the farm supply store people that were on duty didn't know anything about, and the 2 people that _may_ know something about it were both at lunch until - sometime, not sure when. We all hemmed & hawed for a while, and I said maybe I can look up the machine on-line for review, and come back some other time. So they read off the web site to me which I could see for myself (web site name and machine itself ad manufaturer name were all different so it wasn't an 'obvious' sort of web site easy to remember....), but I didn't have a pen and neither of the staff offered to write it down for me or offered a pen or nothing. Just kinda looked at them for a bit, they looked back at me with blank stares, I thanked them, and left. Got to my 'point' there where it's best to just leave.
Went to the closest JD dealer to my farm on the way home, needed 12 rivots to put a fertilizer disk together. This dealership became part of a large group a few years ago, and became more intigrated into that a year ago I heard - not so good service any more is what I hear. So, it took a long time to look up the rivots on the computer. (1.25 by .25 rivots, should be in a drawer where the rivots are all kept, but we live in a computer world....) and he asks for my name after he finds everything he needs and gets the rivots. Huh, well, you're not in the computer, you bought here before? Well yea, probably been close to 2 years, as last year I got lucky & didn't need any planter parts, but sure get parts every now & then, got disk & plow parts in the past too. Looked again, & I'm just not in the computer, he was just dumbfounded - I said I mostly pay cash or check, so not sure how that affects your computer records. Then he says well, it doesn't really matter, other than if you're not in the computer he has to charge me sales tax, but not a big deal on a small amount like this.
And he looks at me.
No offer to put me in the comuter, not sure he knew how, not really sure of anything anymore. So I paid for the rivots & the tax. And truely that was not a big deal. But I didn't bother asking about the 5-bottom vari-width plow they have out on the lot, like I was going to. No use trying to bother with an attitude like that. I ain't paying sales tax on a whole plow, and didn't seem any interest in trying to work with me on a small sale, I'm not gonna bother trying a big sale.
Just kinda went home feeling grouchy. Ain't no sevice out there any more is there. Nothing anounted to a big deal, and I don't have any problems at all compared to most, but still felt pretty grumpy by the end of the day.
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