At 6:40 PM -0800 2/23/00, Marshall Ruskin wrote:
>Canadian Tire's web site is.....www.canadiantire.com
>
>You can sign up for eFlyer - which is your weekly "drool Sheet" - it's fun
>to read.
>
>Then forevermore, you can examine what unique products Canadians are buying
>for their "motorcars", see the price of "petrol", and check the price of
>"tyres".

Canadian tire (TIRE, see?) is the most worthless, screwed up, pain in the
ass, incompetent store around.  The only cool thing about it is Canadian
tire money--it's cool because it is mathematically impossible to spend it
all.  (You always get some back with every purchase).

I HATE having to go to Candian Tire.  Let me illustrate with the following
non-exaggerated scenario:

Buying a spark plug at Canadian Tire:
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You: I'd like spark plugs for my 2.1 L vanagon, please.

CT twerp: What year?

You: uh, 1989.

CTT: (tapping away at keyboard...) Four cylinder?

You: uh, Yes...

CTT: (tappity tap tap) cargo van?

You: Um.  No.  It's a westfalia.  What does that have to do with anything?

CTT: (tap tap tap tap tap tap) Sorry, we don't have "westfalia" plugs.  We
only have a "camper" listed.

You: Fine.  FINE.  I'll take the camper ones.

CTT: Sure?

You: YES!

CTT: (tappity tap tap tap tap tap) GL?

You: Sure...

CTT: 3 door?

You: Mmmhmm...

CTT: Blue?

You: YES!  Just give me the damn plugs before I throw you outside to freeze
to death!

CTT: I've only got the Canadian Tire "Motomaster" brand quintuple-fire
hi-performance plugs, but I'll have to order them from our Moosejaw store.

You: Forget it.  Just give me a set of wiper blades for the vanagon, then.

CTT: (tap tap tap tap) what year?

You: AAARRRGH!!!

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Tobin Copley   Bowen Island, BC, Canada              tobin.copley@ubc.ca

'82 westy 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
'97 son Russell                                   =============
'99 daughter Margaret                            /_| |__| |__|:| clatter
1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi       O|.           .| clatter!
1996: Vancouver to Inuvik, NWT   7,400 km        ~-()-==----()-~
Previous buses: '76 westy deluxe (Daisy), '76 westy standard (Mango)
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