Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Grumpy Old Man

It may be official. I might be a grumpy old man. Either that or the young punks at Rec Supply really are a bunch of snotty rich kids who are useless without their catalogues.

Conversation (started after standing in front of three employees waiting for them to finish their conversation):

Me: Lookin' for a brake cable for a front drum brake.
Douche Bag: Aahh. Yeah. But what's it from? (hand already on the parts catalogue.)
Me: Well the drum's from an old Bombardier and the lever's from an old triumph.
DB: (looking at DB2) WHAT are ya DOOin'?
Me: building a bike.
DB: (opens catalogue and starts flipping through)
Me: I don't think the catalogue's gonna have a TriBardier section.
DB: (closing the catalogue) well how long do you need it?
Me: I dunno. From the bars to the wheel. How many options are there? 3-4 feet I guess.
DB: (looks at DB2) Wwweellllll....it's gonna kinda be patched together.
Me: (looking at DB2 then back at DB) Yeah. Dude it's already patched together.
DB: Well yer gonna have to bring in the lever and the hub, cuz....
Me: (thinking to myself "cuz yer a useless tit who rides nothing but 2 strokes and lives with his mom and dad in the burbs so you can spend all your money from this gig on bike parts that you buy for cost, hurley wearing mother fucker) Thanks.

Snot nosed punk. I hope you choke on your silver spoon. Give me a smelly old crotch of parts guy to deal with any day. At least he'd sell you something to get you started.

4 comments:

  1. No doubt! Been there, done that. Gotta know exactly what you want. There is one old guy there who knows old weird stuff. ?Gary Coleman? or something? Maybe not "Gary" I have it written down somewhere, I'll find it. Otherwise, their catalogs are online, so who needs the DBs?

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  2. hahaha i was just there looking for a chain for my bike and the same thing went down!

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  3. I'm pretty sure Gary Coleman is the fat little black kid from Different Strokes and not a smelly parts guy at Rec. Geez, unplug from the vaporizer, man.

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  4. He can only unplug from the vaporizor long enough to save lives and (eventually) renew his drivers licence. otherwise the unfiltered oxygen..."gets to him."

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