The messages have been coming in and I’ve been on the floor…these are good! Keep them coming! Here’s one of the latest ones:
I have been a parts counterman and manager for over forty years now. Many good stories. But the all time best has to be with the store I’m at now but in our old location in a city block. We sell truck and heavy equipment parts. Met many mechanics , welder s owners and operators. The best was a welder/ mechanic, God rest his soul. Short, maybe 5’4. Heavy set. But what a set of lungs. Liked to keep everybody entertained. If there was a hydraulic hose on the counter, and if there wasn’t we would find one, the bigger the better. He would play them like a trumpet. Now picture this: Store is virtually on street with just sidewalk in front. He parks his one-ton half on sidewalk. Comes in and entertains us as usual. Asks for back up alarm and tells us he has to test it. We provide him with jumper wires. He proceeded to open hood on truck and test it. Satisfied that he drove everybody crazy, he closed the hood…and as he looked at everyone and smiled laughing, he then realized he caught the tails of his leather coat in the hood latch. Couldn’t reach inside hood latch, his feet weren’t really reaching ground and he couldn’t open his coat. So he breaks out in an aria from some opera (in which he had an incredible talent). It took us a while to realize that he was stuck. But everybody was laughing so hard nobody could open hood. They don’t make them like him anymore.
I don’t know why, but I’m picturing Elmer Fudd singing “Kill the Wabbit!” while hanging off the front end of a Chevy K30.
Hey UPCG, Ever had a guy and gal come in,maybe too much refreshments under the shade tree,him covered in grease and dirt,her dressed in white with hand prints “back there”,”down there”, and “both spots up top”?
I used to shop at the parts store with the real machine shop in back,there must have been 20 guys in the place,customers and employees,while they where in the store everybody had a look. When they left the laughter lasted 10 minutes. I was only 14 ,Dad just looked at me and said “never treat your girl like that”,then busted a gut.