The funniest thing I ever heard about Canadian Tire money I read in the
Winnipeg Free Press:

Apparently somebody was in Bermuda, and they went to a bank with $200
dollars in CT money - and got the brain-dead clerk to believe it was really
Canadian currency - and exchanged it for US Currency.

You gotta wonder - with the CT Scrooge printed on it....

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy "Iron Igloo"

>HAHAHAHA - man, did you ever make me laugh.  I went into Ukranian Tire
>(as we call it around here - no offence to Ukes!) to look for hatch
>struts for my van.
>
>Me: can you look up a strut for me in the computer?
>CT twerp: we don't list the struts - you just have to bring it in and
>match it for length with the ones in the rack
>Me: (thinking) sounds strange - I've looked up struts before
>
>Go out to van - pop off tremendously leaky strut to carry around the
>store and get everything greasy.  Start comparing it to the ones in the
>rack.  Older CT twerp comes over
>
>old CT Twerp: Can I give you a hand?
>Me: just need a new hatch strut - he (pointing to other twerp) said to
>just match it up
>old CT Twerp: well, let me look it up in the computer for you, that'll
>be quicker
>(and it was in there, too!)
>
>DOH!!!
>
>They ask the DUMBEST questions.  I desperately needed a distributor cap
>for my Golf one Friday night, and after going through all the
>tappity-tapping, and it said it didn't list a cap for my car (yeah,
>because the 2.0 4 cylinder has changed SOOOO much over the years).
>After all that tappity-tapping, I figured I would go see someone who had
>a clue and get a Bosch one.  I wasn't going to try and confuse him with
>the fact that the same engine was in the 97 and the 96 as well as the
>Jetta.... I don't think they understand parts interchangeability.
>
>But I hear you on the CT money.  It is 100% impossible to get rid of it,
>unless you buy an item that costs EXACTLY like 10.95 and you have 10.95
>in CT money.  I remember hearing a story that one of the bars at
>Univeristy of Waterloo, during the cash strapped spring months, took CT
>Money on par.  Also, another (could be legend) was that when Canadian
>U.N. Peacekeepers were stationed in Haiti, they were using CT Money as
>Canadian Currency.  *HAHAHAHA*
>
>CT is always good for some annoyance and laughs, and yet for some
>reason, I always wind up going back.....
>
>Cheers for a good weekend,
>Keith Adams
>Calgary, Alberta
>1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia, 1998 Golf Wolfsburg Edition
>
>Subject:       [F] Canadian Tire [was: seat covers]
>
>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:
>=====================================
>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
>freezeto 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
>