Morons

[Grim Reaper]

Went to Autozone to get a Froant axle U-joint for a 10 bolt. Kid asks "can I help you?"

ME: Yeah got grab em a Brute force 297 u-joint.

Dork boy: What year is the vehicle he asks.

ME: Look just go grab the box that has 297 on it.

Dork boy:I can't I need to get the part number.

ME: So I spit it out.

ME: 1979 GMC K10 blazer just to screw with him.

this confuses him.

Now mind you his boss who knows me is standing becide him helping another customer. His boss knows I have spent thousands of dollars and that I know exactly what I want when I get there and knows I know how touse the computer and he usualy points at the computer when I walk in to help myself.

So I play along with the new kid.

Dork boy: Year?
ME:1979

Dork boy: make?
ME:Chevy

Dork boy: Model?

ME:Blazer

Dork boy: 2wd or 4wd?

I roll my eyes as I tell him "4"

Dork boy: engine size?

ME: Like this really matters at all but it's a 350 but the part is the same regardless the engine.

He then tells me " I don;t have it. Looks like a dealer only part.

I look at him in total disbelief and ask "Since when?"

Dork boy: Well always some parts we just cant get.

ME: Well gee the last 7 or 8 I have bought here were not dealer only items.

Jim (the boss) is about to bust a gut but trying to keep a straight face heads off to get the part his customer needs.

I spin the monitor where I can see it and grab the key board and back it up so I can see what this dork has looked up.

Some how he managed to get the computer to eat 79 S10 blazer and looked up a haf shaft for it.. Uhhhhhh 82 I think was first year for s10.

SO about that time Jim drops a 297 on the counter on he way to his customer. I picked uo it and pointed at the part number 1-X297 or something another. "See the 297 part" I ask the boy?

Then I said to him " Let me guess....you drive a honda?"

Dork boy: Yeah how did you guess?

ME: Well because you don't know anything about one of the most common trucks ever built. This part is used in just about every 4wd truck made by GM since the 60's and probably still used in the current truck front drive shafts.

Came in a few days later and Jim tells me the kid quit. It was too hard of a job and the customers were mean to him LOL.