Yeah, okay so the bread last night was slightly better than the 1st. Still it was a giant biscuit loaf flavored garlic rather than a nice fluffy loaf of bread. Apparently there are no "quick garlic bread scratch" recipes that crank out a fluffy loaf of buttery crusty goodness. Ohh well i tried. As such it isn't very hard to throw some ingredients in the bread maker and whip up a yeast leavened loaf rather than a chemical one.
on an unrelated topic. I work in the auto parts business. As such sometimes i get customers with unique requests. . . such as a 51' Hudson Hornet. "Okay dude. I'll see what i can score. What do you need? Drum brake shoes, both front and back? Alllll-RIghty then. . . . Well i got the rear and fronts they'll be here tomorrow morning. . . . ==flash forward===. . . you can't get them right now cuz you can't get the drums off. . . lame well we'll hold 'em till you can pick them up.
===Flash forward 4 weeks===
"Hudson Hornet yeah okay we got your parts. . . what!? The front shoes don't match. Well. . . . okay ummm. . . . No I've no idea why. . you might try to match them up on-line and give us a call or you can try Cut Rate."
(Side note: any local of Oly WA "Knows" about Cut Rate Auto Parts. Awesome, but a little on the odd side.)
So I sent my Hudson customer to Cut Rate on a long shot. . . SO the bloke walks in and gets helped by the newest noob there. Doesn't even have a name tag yet.
(a little about the A P Business there's a certain amount of "street cred" that goes into the business; if you don't know what your talking about, or never can get parts, if you are a useless parts man who can't look up, find, or otherwise solve folks' parts issues you don't survive very long in the business.) I digress. . .
SO this Noob
(now this noob has ZERO (0) street cred)
takes one look at the Hudson customer's front brake shoes and He goes, "Hmm, well those shoes are off a 50's Ford, I'll be right back."
Guy goes into the back comes out with a non-descript box, opens it up and the shoes match EXACTLY!
Now that is some serious Jedi stuff there. Kudos to the Noob at Cut Rate. Got my guy his parts. Awesome!
Had 1 other customer of note yesterday. . . 4 weeks ago came looking for a 54 Studebaker Freeze plug. So I'm thinking, "What in hell is a Freeze Plug?" As such I look around, but to no avail. I've got 'em but they're organized by measurement not by engine or make/model. Anyway i send the bloke to Studebaker or at least get the measurements and I'll fake it from there. Last night he comes in "I need a 1.5 inch Brass freeze plug for a 54 Studebaker silver hawk with a v-8. Bang got it. . . how much? $1.57. . . . . Auto parts has its odd moments
When you go please make sure you have right off, Year, Make, Model and Engine. . . it helps us all out.
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