At  5/16/2007 06:01 PM,Rob wrote:
>At  5/16/2007 09:25 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
>>Why do we refer to these places like that?   Friendly Local Auto
>>Parts Store?  I've not found most of the countermen("persons?) very
>>friendly at all..In fact, they seem downright rude, in most cases.
>
>My experience with parts stores is completely different from yours.
>100% different.

I just read the rest of the thread and never realized that so many
people shopped at the big box parts stores.. Kregan, Pepboys, Shucks.
We have a Shucks in town and it's my store of last resort.
Bemidji MN had 3 real parts stores, Shelton WA has 2 but Olympia is
not that far away. Lot's of real parts stores in the Olympia area,
there are even real foreign parts stores! Places that know what a VW is.
All the local parts stores here (and in Bemidji) had lot's of
friendly people, they even know what they are doing. Shucks?
Reasonably friendly for the most part and not too bad as long as they
can find what you want in the computer (try telling the guy at the
Shucks counter that you want one of those donut exhaust washers that
VW's use <g>), the cost is a bit more for most things but I know that
when I walk in the door.

Rob
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