AutoZone rant

Hang in there, man!

tw

Lon wrote:

> One of life's little signals you might want to consider moving on is how
> the sheer weight of cremation and grave site offers tend to increase as
> you pass the mid 60's.
>
>
>
> twaldron proclaimed:
>
>> At least it wasn't a funeral home.
>>
>> tw
>>
>> Clint wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, well, a few years ago, we had to put our cat down. About a
>>> month later, we got a nice card from the vet, saying "Thanks for your
>>> business, and we hope you'll keep us in mind the next time" sort of
>>> message. Thought that was kind of insensitive...
>>>
>>> Clint



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"Lee Ayrton" > wrote

*trimmed the length a little*

>> That's pretty screwed up.
>> Isn't there some antiquated law that says that they HAVE to - I think it
>> has
>> to be in coin or something but I believe there is a law like that.
>> Why not pay it online?
>
> You might be thinking of the legend on US paper currency that says that it
> is "legal tender for all debts, public and private." It doesn't require
> the debtee to _accept_ the form of payment, only that it is legally
> acceptable. There's several test cases on this, mostly around people
> making "protest payments" of taxes in the form of barrels of pennies, and
> it has been held that a creditor can refuse accept such payment without
> voiding the debt.
>
> In Billy Ray's example above I'm guessing that the bill-payment outposts
> refuse to handle cash because the other payment forms are much more
> difficult for common folk to steal and easier to account for. My credit
> union refuses to accept large quantities of loose coin for much the same
> reason -- rolled coin is easier to handle and there can be no claim on my
> part that they dropped some and it rolled under the counter before being
> credited to my account.
>
>
>
>
> --
> "I defer to your plainly more vivid memories of topless women with
> whips....r"
> R. H. Draney recalls AFU in the Good Old Days.

I knew about the whole protest thing, and the merchant's right to refuse a
payment in loose coin but something still nags at me about cash being
something they have to take.
I'm likely wrong. or very close to it.

Kate

>

Or you start getting junk mail from the AARP... but I've been getting
mail from them since I was in my 30's, and the only think I'll ever send
them is one of their postage paid reply envelopes, securely fastened to
a brick.

Jeff DeWitt

twaldron wrote:
> Hang in there, man!
>
> tw
>
> Lon wrote:
>
>> One of life's little signals you might want to consider moving on is
>> how the sheer weight of cremation and grave site offers tend to
>> increase as you pass the mid 60's.
>>
>>
>>
>> twaldron proclaimed:
>>
>>> At least it wasn't a funeral home.
>>>
>>> tw
>>>
>>> Clint wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, well, a few years ago, we had to put our cat down. About a
>>>> month later, we got a nice card from the vet, saying "Thanks for
>>>> your business, and we hope you'll keep us in mind the next time"
>>>> sort of message. Thought that was kind of insensitive...
>>>>
>>>> Clint
>
>
>
>

But then you just wouldn't know if kitty was still alive or not!

Jeff DeWitt

Lon wrote:
>
> You could have taken the poor cat over to your neighborhood
> Schroedinger's Kitty Klinic....
>
>
> Clint proclaimed:
>
>> Yeah, well, a few years ago, we had to put our cat down. About a
>> month later, we got a nice card from the vet, saying "Thanks for your
>> business, and we hope you'll keep us in mind the next time" sort of
>> message. Thought that was kind of insensitive...
>>
>> Clint
>>
>> "Greg" > wrote in message
>> news:1yUgh.489955$5R2.268502@pd7urf3no...
>>
>>> I can beat that, my daughter's cell phone bill got up to $600.00,
>>> behind in payment, they cut her off last month, yesterday she got a
>>> card from them saying preferred custumer, she can get a free box of
>>> chocolates.
>>>
>>> "Jeffrey DeWitt" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> One of my nephews is a very good musician and last Christmas I got
>>>> him a gift certificate from the Guitar Center. Ever since then I've
>>>> been getting stuff in the mail from them because I'm one of their
>>>> preferred customers.
>>>>
>>>> If a guy who can only play the radio and bought ONE $25 gift
>>>> certificate from them is one of their best customers than they are
>>>> in REAL trouble! <G>
>>>>
>>>> Jeff DeWitt
>>>>
>>>> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Guitar Center is widely derided by most pros because of the
>>>>> sales-drones and their attitudes. On the flip side they ususally do
>>>>> have the best prices anywhere, but most of the folks that work
>>>>> there are clueless. Imagine a large group of rock musicians
>>>>> providing customer service...
>>>>>
>>>>> "JimG" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't understand that analogy... Are you saying they don't play
>>>>>> your tune?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Matt Macchiarolo" wrote in message...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Auto Zone is like the Guitar Center of auto parts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>

Ahh good old Maijer, I remember when it was Meijer's Thrifty Acres!

Jeff DeWitt

Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
> In Michigan we have Meijer, but the've been doing the "one stop shopping"
> thing for forty years or something like that....
>
> "Lon" > wrote in message
> . ..
>
>>Ah, much like the Kalifornia chain of mutated grocery stores that now sell
>>everything electronic and then some... aka the [I hate] Frys chain.
>>Never ask a Frys clerk a question. Not even where you might find a
>>particular type of merchandise. I honestly believe that the stores with
>>electronic aids, as if you can find your ass with both hands, you are
>>overqualified and Frys would not hire you.
>>
>>
>>Matt Macchiarolo proclaimed:
>>
>>
>>>Guitar Center is widely derided by most pros because of the sales-drones
>>>and their attitudes. On the flip side they ususally do have the best
>>>prices anywhere, but most of the folks that work there are clueless.
>>>Imagine a large group of rock musicians providing customer service...
>>>
>>>"JimG" > wrote in message
...
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't understand that analogy... Are you saying they don't play your
>>>>tune?
>>>>
>>>>"Matt Macchiarolo" wrote in message...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Auto Zone is like the Guitar Center of auto parts.
>>>>
>>>>
>

I think you answered your own question, now if it was a Studebaker... <G>

Jeff DeWitt

billy ray wrote:
> How come no one is jealous of my Corvair wagon with no heat or floor that
> would only go over 55 downhill and leaked 40 weight oil like a sieve?
>
>
> "Earle Horton" > wrote in message
> m...
>
>>"Simon Juncal" > wrote
>>in
>>message ...
>>
>>>Earle Horton wrote:
>>>
>>>>My experience with Autozone in Colorado has been uniformly
>>>>positive.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.filzi.de/mediac/400_0/med...ler-balkon.jpg
>>>>
>>>>Earle
>>>
>>>Wonderful I've got my very own usenet stalker...
>>>
>>
>>You're just jealous, really really jealous, that I used to own a 1960
>>Chevy
>>pickup with the cab mounts all rusted out and popping out of first gear...
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Earle
>>
>>
>
>
>

Kate wrote:
> "Greg" > wrote in message
> news:b0zgh.490828$R63.349715@pd7urf1no...
>
>> I think I would of picked up the nearest thing worth that check and
>>walked out, let the cops come, ask the cops how they know it was you, if
>>the cops says he has your check, then say well how could it be steeling
>>then?
>
>
> LOL, that's funny.
> I wonder what WOULD have happend... I never wanted a pair of matching
> bracelets that were connected though.

Could have gotten really interesting, after all he had your check. If
the police got involved you could point out the the clerk took
(accepted) your check so what is the problem? In the highly unlikely
event you did get the matching bracelets a good lawyer would likely get
you your own AutoZone store in exchange.

Jeff DeWitt

>
>
>>"Red Jeep" > wrote in message
.. .
>>
>>>I need to vent and explain why AutoZone just lost me as a customer.
>>>
>>>The driver's side headlight on my XJ went out tonight. I stopped by the
>>>nearest car parts place to pick up a pair of Sylvania SilverStars. The
>>>closest place turned out to be AutoZone.
>>>
>>>I didn't have $40+ in cash on me, so I decided to write a check. While I
>>>was writing the check, the sales droid said something about electronics.
>>>I
>>>was busy writing the check and ignored him. He took my check and
>>>proceeded
>>>to demand that I sign another slip of paper allowing them to
>>>electronically
>>>take the money out of my account immediately. If I had wanted to do that,
>>>I
>>>would have used my debit card! He refused to give me my check back and
>>>wouldn't give me a receipt, so I left sans lights. Tomorrow I will be
>>>stopping payment on that check. I won't be back to AutoZone.
>>>
>>>The Checker store just down the road was much nicer to deal with. They
>>>took
>>>my check and AutoZone's loss with be Checker's gain.
>>>
>>>BTW, the SilverStars are a big improvement over stock halogen headlights!
>>
>>
>
>

Oh, no, the AARP mail starts long before you turn 60.

Once other little moment is when you use the AARP card for senior
discounts, they quit carding you.

As part of this growing old era, I'm seriously thinking about growing up
one of these days. Which is kinda hard for a man whose life ambition
is to go out at the age of 101 at the hands of an irate father.


Jeffrey DeWitt proclaimed:

> Or you start getting junk mail from the AARP... but I've been getting
> mail from them since I was in my 30's, and the only think I'll ever send
> them is one of their postage paid reply envelopes, securely fastened to
> a brick.
>
> Jeff DeWitt
>
> twaldron wrote:
>
>> Hang in there, man!
>>
>> tw
>>
>> Lon wrote:
>>
>>> One of life's little signals you might want to consider moving on is
>>> how the sheer weight of cremation and grave site offers tend to
>>> increase as you pass the mid 60's.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> twaldron proclaimed:
>>>
>>>> At least it wasn't a funeral home.
>>>>
>>>> tw
>>>>
>>>> Clint wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, well, a few years ago, we had to put our cat down. About a
>>>>> month later, we got a nice card from the vet, saying "Thanks for
>>>>> your business, and we hope you'll keep us in mind the next time"
>>>>> sort of message. Thought that was kind of insensitive...
>>>>>
>>>>> Clint
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Oh God Jeff!
My husband started getting stuff from them in his 40s.
After a couple of years he wrote "DECEASED" on one of their letters and sent
it back to them. He didn't get anything again until he filed for SSI last
year at 62.

THEN he wrot 'Until you stop mixing in politics, I want nothing to do with
your anti-gun organization!" and sent it back in their envelope.
Again, we are off their mailing list.

Kate

"Jeffrey DeWitt" > wrote in message
...
> Or you start getting junk mail from the AARP... but I've been getting mail
> from them since I was in my 30's, and the only think I'll ever send them
> is one of their postage paid reply envelopes, securely fastened to a
> brick.
>
> Jeff DeWitt
>
> twaldron wrote:
>> Hang in there, man!
>>
>> tw
>>
>> Lon wrote:
>>
>>> One of life's little signals you might want to consider moving on is how
>>> the sheer weight of cremation and grave site offers tend to increase as
>>> you pass the mid 60's.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> twaldron proclaimed:
>>>
>>>> At least it wasn't a funeral home.
>>>>
>>>> tw
>>>>
>>>> Clint wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, well, a few years ago, we had to put our cat down. About a
>>>>> month later, we got a nice card from the vet, saying "Thanks for your
>>>>> business, and we hope you'll keep us in mind the next time" sort of
>>>>> message. Thought that was kind of insensitive...
>>>>>
>>>>> Clint
>>
>>
>>

Agreed!

"Kate" > wrote in message
...
snip
>
> THEN he wrot 'Until you stop mixing in politics, I want nothing to do with
> your anti-gun organization!" and sent it back in their envelope.
>
> Kate
>