>From: Bob and Nancy <wises@mail.execpc.com>
>Reply-To: Bob and Nancy <wises@mail.execpc.com>
>To: triumphs@autox.team.net
>Subject: Bashing of parts suppliers
>Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:24:30 -0500
>
>Listers,
>
>Well, it has happened again, and, as always, the sequence is the same.....
>
>Step 1. Lister "A" gets pissed at LBC parts supplier "X" and rants to the
>list.
>
>Step 2. Listers "B" through "J" chime in and agree that "X" is a terrible
>corporation run by terrible people.
>
>Step 3. Listers "K" through "O" come to the defense of "X".
>
>Step 4. Listers "P" through "V" turn the conversation to include
>criticism, or praise, of the other LBC suppliers, "Y" and "Z".
>
>Step 5. Finally, lister "W" ends the thread with a message from a rational
>voice saying something like, "Just remember, without "X", "Y", and "Z" we
>wouldn't be able to get ANY parts for our cars so quit your bitching"
>
>It usually takes about 4 (+/- 1) days to get from "A" to "Z" during which
>time I make heavy use of my delete key.
>
>Bob
>'61 TR3A with a new paint job (but no motor, yet)
Hey Bob!
You forgot the next pass of "Lister AA1" complaining about the
this semi-annual litany...
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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