At The Car Parts Store
I went Sunday looking for a 7/16-20 Banjo bolt. Guy says sure, starts heading to the Dorman Help section. I don't protest yet,- I've been surprised at what the Help line has produced. He tries the bolt in the size checker dealio, and says its a 12mm. I said I doubt it, I'm working on a 68 Dodge. "well-it fits here" - "well maybe just try the 7/16 just to be sure". "OH yeah, it does fit this a little better".
He thumbs through the rack a bit, come up with something and says here, and hands me a package. I look at it and say - this is just a regular bolt, it doesn't have a hole in it. He askes why theres a hole in it, so I proceed to explain how a Banjo bolt passes fluid from a hose into a fitting or device.
can you imagine the other side of that story?
so this old confused geezer came in the other day, asking for a bolt for his 68 dart
like they even made darts back then, he musta meant an 18 dart
so i took him over and handed him a 12 mm bolt, just to get him back on the road again, and get this, he asked for some prehistoric SEA pitch (like those '18 darts dont use standard metric bolts)
but whatever, he managed to find one that somewhere matched, so i grabbed him one of those
you know, customer is always right and such
then he asks about a whole, so i tell him, the nut is the part with the hole in it, not the bolt
so get this, turns out hes not working on a car at all, hes working on a flipping banjo
i should have sent him over the guitar center but he started some weird story about hoses
i thought hosery was a department at macies
