A trip to the auto parts store

[SpikeC]

 My Triumph has been not willing to run and I discovered a broken spark plug cap, so I stopped by a local auto parts store. After browsing the isles and not finding one I approached the counter and asked the fellow there if they had any spark plug caps. He looked at me funny and said, "what?" I described what a spark plug cap was and how it worked, and he had no idea what they were! After looking in his catalogs for a bit with no success I finally just left.
What is this world coming to?

[MendoDave]

How old was this guy?

[Speeddog]

That's depressing.

Did you ask for some blinker fluid or a muffler bearing?

[Grampa]

duuuuude.... go to the mall bro

[MendoDave]

That's depressing.

Did you ask for some blinker fluid or a muffler bearing?

I would have told him that the Cap limits top end power and transfers it to the low Tourqe range. Then maybe explained to him how power is in inverse proportion to the slope of the Geeb.

[triangleforge]

They should just start putting a warning label on the hood of modern cars that says "Here there be Dragons."

[Grampa]

just more proof of the ever widening intelligence gap, and how technology is making people think less. dumb people thinking they are smart because they can use the fruits of a select fews brain power.


off to listen to "are we not men"

[Triple J]

Probably just proof of that store hiring people that don't know anything about cars. O'Reilly/Schucks/etc. I'm guessing?

I always have good luck at Napa Auto...even with the young guys. 

[Speedbag]

Hell, these days a spark plug wire is probably alien technology to some.

[the_Journeyman]

Did you ask for some blinker fluid or a muffler bearing?

My local store has a gallon of blinker fluid sitting on the checkout counter   

I had a similar experience looking for 6V light bulbs.  Only one person out of 4 different stores knew they ever existed.  Most of my general parts (bulbs, plugs, wires etc) come from the auto parts store.  I've gotten my share of funny looks over the years.  I don't tell them I'm hunting for something off a motorcycle anymore.  They like to tell me "we don't carry motorcycle stuff."

JM

[SpikeC]

  It was a Thrifty Auto Supply. I stopped there because it was next door to the place that I was getting a propane tank refilled. The guy had grey hair, butt obviously had never opened a hood (bonnet)! 
A while back a woman I knew was trying to get her pickup to start, I told her boyfriend that the teeth on the flywheel were probably broken, and asked me what a flywheel was.
Goin to hell in a handbasket, I tell ya!

[krolik]

I would have told him that the Cap limits top end power and transfers it to the low Tourqe range. Then maybe explained to him how power is in inverse proportion to the slope of the Geeb.

Then you have to explain how that effects the Gonkulator & turbo encabulator.

[Speeddog]

Those stupid kids on my lawn don't know a damn thing.

[koko64]

 

The place I go (Autobarn in Chirnside Park) has petrol heads working there. Everyone there is into their cars (and some bikes), male, female, young and old. The pretty girls often hired are not just there for their looks (as in some stores to appeal to a creepy old demographic), they are car enthusiasts.  I'm very lucky with that particular store.

Supercheap Auto on the other hand can get make the beast with two backsed. I still haven't forgiven them.

[SpikeC]

 Don't be dissin the creepy old demo!!