Would they offer the Craftsman underware in a choice of Standard or Metric sizes @Triedaq?
Would they offer the Craftsman underware in a choice of Standard or Metric sizes
I think I would prefer my underwear to say Craftsman instead of Snap-On.
I don’t want anything snapping on in my pants.
Then again, I’m not so sure about having a craftsman crawling around in there either.
Brings up the question, would you think there are options for good, better best? lifetime warranty?
Hopefully not Asian size(two sizes too small-like incomplete mansion,no &@!! room)
If they take their cues from the tire industry they’ll create the size out of a combination of metric, a ratio, and inches all combined! And the wear rating will be some complicated formula that nobody can understand, and the washing instructions will be coded so that only someone with a decoding ring can read them. The only thing marked clearly so the average consumer can understand it will be the season they’re designed for… the winter long johns will have little snowflakes on the sides!
I’d be happy with my underwear being sized as a ratio, as long as it’s not considered “low-profile” like a tire is.
Maybe Snap-On will offer a line of briefs in manly colors and sizes. And of course the smallest size would be ABOVE AVERAGE.
I suspect the Sears tech who died from the tire explosion made an error in judgement rather than a mechanical failure being the cause of this accident.
The tech apparently made another big mistake before the tire change was even started and that was to tell the customer to get out of the shop and into the waiting area.
You can bet the customer in the hospital is already in contact with an attorney to get the suit started even if he did willingly violate company policy about customers in the shop.
@“Rod Knox”
“ABOVE AVERAGE.”
Makes me think of 'Prairie Home Companion"
" . . . all the children are above average."
Because apparently nobody wants normal children
Normal = loser in this world, according to some
Not me, though
I guess I was happy being a loser child, because I was a normal child. Not extraordinary in any way 
I suspect the Sears tech who died from the tire explosion made an error in judgement rather than a mechanical failure being the cause of this accident.
Until we know more details I wouldn’t hazard a guess. We don’t know if it was a split-rim, two-piece wheel, or a conventional tire/wheel assembly. We don’t know if the wheel/rim failed or if the tire blew. Was it in a cage or mounted to a changer?
Whatever the case, when a shop accident results in death, more than one thing went wrong.
The tech apparently made another big mistake before the tire change was even started and that was to tell the customer to get out of the shop and into the waiting area.
I don’t buy tires at Sears…but they use to own NTB…and at NTB they invite you into the shop area if you want. BTW…I don’t buy ANYTHING from NTB.
No matter what caused the tire explosion my number one question was also: WHAT WAS THE CUSTOMER DOING IN THE SHOP!!!
My garage keepers liability insurance discouraged allowing customers in the shop but didn’t bar them being there. It is difficult to work while constantly paying attention to the safety of people more concerned with avoiding getting dirty than getting injured or killed though. When a customer was in the shop they had my undivided attention.
WHAT WAS THE CUSTOMER DOING IN THE SHOP!!!
About the only time I go for professional service is for exhaust work. That’s one duty I am willing to pay someone else to do. Always nasty, rust in face, hard welding positions etc.
These guys still offer to bring you out into the shop to see the issues and go over their recommendations. I recall the time when this was not an issue at all. Times have changed. But I certainly do not want to see it completely eliminated because of some freak accidents. I WANT to be able to see it on the lift, have the issues shown to me and gauge the appropriateness of the recommended service…
I won’t have tires installed or any work done anywhere where I can’t watch the work being performed. Town Fair Tire has designed their stores specifically to make it impossible for the customers to see them working, and I found out the hard way that they do unauthorized work behind those walls. I’ll never go there again.
Whether or not you like PepBoys, they’ve recently redone their stores with huge windows between the waiting and merchandise areas and the shop so the customers can watch the work being performed. I commend them for that.
I'd be happy with my underwear being sized as a ratio, as long as it's not considered "low-profile" like a tire is.Yeah, that's more desirable on models without Y-chromosomes :smiley:
My suits used to be “portly”. The last one I bought was “executive cut”. I liked “portly” better… I felt it was more honest. I wasn’t kidding anybody anyway.
When I lived in WI, the state did all the inspections. There was no concern about conflict of interest or up-selling repairs. When I moved to the right coast, I found the inspections were performed by the same businesses that sell the repairs. Not good. Windows there are nice so you can see what’s going on.
At the same time, I have cars that normally would never, ever see a commercial repair place except for the requisite annual inspection. One of them intimidates every place I have ever taken it and I have to drive it into the bay and line it up for the lift. I get a kick out of giving them the keys and having them come back shortly afterward wondering how to work the dual shifters…
This is going to sound like a very bad joke on my part, in reaction to the tire explosion accident at Sears, but it isn’t.
In today’s mail, I received a mailer for Sears’ Semi-Annual Blowout Sale. Even though I don’t usually shop there, I figured that I should at least spend a minute or so perusing the multi-page mailer…just in case…
Well, you may have already guessed what I found on one of the interior pages of that mailer. Yes, believe it or not, their Blowout Sale includes tires!
Apparently their copywriters–as well as the executives who have to approve the copy–don’t perceive the negative connotations of a Blowout Sale on tires. These folks seemingly don’t even have any common sense.
Yikes!
Apparently their copywriters--as well as the executives who have to approve the copy--don't perceive the negative connotations of a Blowout Sale on tires. These folks seemingly don't even have any common sense.
While agree that it seems in bad taste…in all fairness to Sears…those fliers were printed and distributed weeks ago.