Are Parts Stores Getting Worse?

[truckster]

I'm helping my nephew fix the truck his dad left him when he died two years ago. He had a frozen parking brake cable, so Saturday I walked into O'Reilly's and asked for a left rear parking brake cable for a 2000 Ford Ranger pickup. The guy comes back with a cable that's 7 feet long. I told him it's the wrong one. His reply was, "This is the part for the passenger side."

Yeah, I asked for the left side - that's the driver's side. Now, I know you're thinking, "Give the guy a break. He's probably new to cars and doesn't know that everything on a vehicle is described from the driver's perspective."

Except that he was the store manager.