<VV> Brake shoes

[corvairs]

Gee, maybe the experience that CORVAIR vendors has is worth something 
after all..........Lon

www.corvairunderground.com

N. Joseph Potts wrote:

>I agree with Padgett. There is NO good reason why a counterman should
>interpose his presuppositions over what the database "knows" just in order
>to look personally knowledgeable. Intelligence today is a matter of
>NAVIGATING and EVALUATING information, not retaining and regurgitating it.
>     I've been standing IN FRONT of parts counters for about 45 years, and
>at one point could read the (GM) parts books (they were books back then)
>UPSIDE DOWN better than the countermen could (eventually I bought my own -
>turns out I can read them even BETTER right-side-up). And they were NOT
>young squirts - they were (at the time) considerably older than I was.
>     Some years ago, I ordered a taillight for my Brand X, and was surprised
>to be asked, "two-door" or "four-door." The question was required, of
>course. Just last week, a counterman almost neglected to ask me whether the
>(other) Brand X I was buying brake pads for was a police option (it was).
>Yes, it made a difference - and not just lining material - the non-police
>part would NOT fit. The computer knows - a counterman trying to outsmart the
>computer (and/or the customer) is just John Henry going up against the steam
>hammer. Only it's the customer who gets it in the ear, not the counterman.
>  
>
>  
>