Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:14:49 -0800
Reply-To: Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
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From: Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
Subject: [F] Canadian Tire [was: seat covers]
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At 6:40 PM -0800 2/23/00, Marshall Ruskin wrote:
>Canadian Tire's web site is.....www.canadiantire.com
>
>You can sign up for eFlyer - which is your weekly "drool Sheet" - it's fun
>to read.
>
>Then forevermore, you can examine what unique products Canadians are buying
>for their "motorcars", see the price of "petrol", and check the price of
>"tyres".
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:
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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 freeze
to 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
'82 westy 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky")
'97 son Russell =============
'99 daughter Margaret /_| |__| |__|:| clatter
1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi O|. .| clatter!
1996: Vancouver to Inuvik, NWT 7,400 km ~-()-==----()-~
Previous buses: '76 westy deluxe (Daisy), '76 westy standard (Mango)
http://www.sfu.ca/~tcopley/vw/