THIS is why you returned it?!

[Jester]

A little off-topic, but that's something that's always bothered me, calling customers 'guests'. If I had guests in my house that behave the way SCs do in stores, I'd throw them out and tell them never to come back.

I always "loved" the managers that interrupted whatever you were saying, no matter how busy or crazy things were, to "correct" you whenever you said the word "customer."

"Boss, the customer at table 38 says there's a rat turd in his steak, and he's going to firebomb the building unless he wax his truck for the next ten years!"

"You mean the GUEST at table 38."

That being said, when I worked at my two hotel jobs, the word "guest" made perfect sense.

[ShortTemperHatesStupidity]

You spend $80,000 on your vehicles??? Geez... and I was feeling faint at the thought of taking a loan out for $15,000.

Nope. I was responding to Mark Healey when he said "Actually some of the more hoity-toity car makers are including some of, what I consider to be consumables, like brake pads, in their warantees. Go figure."

I didn't feel the need to quote the whole thing.

[workerbee222]

I've owned vacuums for 30 years or so, and the number of belts I've replaced can be counted on the fingers of one hand. I don't remember when the last time was I replaced a belt.

Of course, I don't remember the last time I vacuumed, either. I'm sure I've done it in the last two weeks or so.

[Primer]

The only time I've ever had to replace a vaccuum belt was on a Kirby. That thing ate belts for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack! Thank goodness I got it at an estate sale and didn't pay full price for it. After the third belt in less than a year, I gave it to Goodwill. The cannister vac I got from Sears 25 years ago is still going strong, and my mom's vac (Speed Queen?), that she's had for about 50 years is still going strong, too!

The only time she's had to do anything to hers was about 30 years ago when she was working at a marina, and it sank with the office. She took it in to Austin Vaccuum and explained what happened....the repairman looked at her, looked at the vaccuum, looked back at her, and asked, "Well lady...what made you think it would float?!?"

They did fix it, and it's been great ever since!