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Old Feb 24, 2016 | 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by OKMICK
Just like every biz there's great ones and bad ones. The bad ones don't last.

Here's my last post on the subject. Customers who come into a dealership with 'attitude' are ********. Those guys on the sales floor are just like everybody else tryin' to make a living and you wouldn't believe the abuse they are subjected to. I've tossed more than one idiot off the showroom floor.
And that I do believe! I personally would not want to do that job. And yes, some customers are ********!
 
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But my car is worth more than that! It says right on it that it's a "Limited"!
Yep, every one of those babies is a 'creampuff'. I was gonna make my post to Tim my last on this subject but this one is really it...

I have yet to meet anyone who didn't tell ya they paid more for their house and less for their car in an attempt to impress ya. Oh, yeah? Ya got the paperwork we can peek at?
 
Old Feb 24, 2016 | 07:34 PM
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Old Feb 24, 2016 | 07:35 PM
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**** Tracy! Now you pissed off Mick!
Pissing people off is one of the few things I am really good at Tim. It just comes naturally to me and I can do it without even trying most of the time! LOL
 
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How many years were you selling cars for?
 
Old Feb 24, 2016 | 07:37 PM
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I'm fine, Tim. I subscribe to the Tug McGraw Frozen Snowball Theory. In a billion years the sun is gonna burn out, the earth will be a giant ball of ice and who's gonna care?

I can see it now. Some lurker is gonna read this post and explain to me when the sun burns out it will actually incinerate the earth. I claim poetic license because I like Tug McGraw.
 
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I'm fine, Tim. I subscribe to the Tug McGraw Frozen Snowball Theory. In a billion years the sun is gonna burn out, the earth will be a giant ball of ice and who's gonna care?

I can see it now. Some lurker is gonna read this post and explain to me when the sun burns out it will actually incinerate the earth. I claim poetic license because I like Tug McGraw.
Hell, in less than 100 years, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to care. LOL. That would put me at 138 years old. Yup, gonna be helping daisy grow by then.
 
Old Feb 24, 2016 | 07:41 PM
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Pissing people off is one of the few things I am really good at Tim. It just comes naturally to me and I can do it without even trying most of the time! LOL
Hahaha...this is a 'no bullshit', 'you ain't gonna believe' this story. Years ago I am sitting at lunchtime in a Denny's restaurant that had a cocktail lounge. I am with a young lady who called on the dealerships representing a major bank. We are eating and discussing biz and some dude I have never met walks up to the table. He says, "You got one of them faces that makes ya think you can have whatever ya want." I said, excuse me? He says, "I ought to kick your ***." I said, "Well, I guess that's an *** whipping I might just havta try." The fight was on. Damndest thing I ever saw.
 
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Well. my work here is done for tonight.


I'm out fellers. Have a great evening all!
 
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And, how did it end?
 



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