Dibbons
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Note: This conversation originally took place in Spanish.
Went down to my neighborhood specialty fastener store this morning to pick up a couple of 5" long 3/8" bolts and nuts. The old-timer usually goes straight to the back and brings out what I need. However, today I was helped by a rookie kid who brought out a plastic gauge and he slid the sample bolt (which was only an inch long) into a couple of holes on the gauge until he was satisfied he knew what I needed.
The kid tried a couple of nuts onto ONE of the two bolts and they spun on just fine. While he was looking up in a book what to charge me (the old timer just gives me a number)
I learned from experience never to leave the store without first trial fitting EVERY nut and bolt before leaving the premises. I took one nut and trial fit it on my own sample bolt and it fit.
Then I took both nuts and trial fit them on corresponding bolts. One of the nuts would hardly even start. I told the kid "this nut is defective" and he tried another nut (no fit), another nut (no fit), and a third nut (no fit). I took the nut off the second bolt in my hand and I asked him to hand me back the bolt he was still trying to match with a nut. Come to find out, it was the threads of the second new bolt that were screwed up, not the correct size nuts he was trying over and over again.
I said out loud: "You can't trust anything these days". The old timer (who overheard me) quipped back ... "and even the tortillas they sell are coming out raw."
Went down to my neighborhood specialty fastener store this morning to pick up a couple of 5" long 3/8" bolts and nuts. The old-timer usually goes straight to the back and brings out what I need. However, today I was helped by a rookie kid who brought out a plastic gauge and he slid the sample bolt (which was only an inch long) into a couple of holes on the gauge until he was satisfied he knew what I needed.
The kid tried a couple of nuts onto ONE of the two bolts and they spun on just fine. While he was looking up in a book what to charge me (the old timer just gives me a number)
I learned from experience never to leave the store without first trial fitting EVERY nut and bolt before leaving the premises. I took one nut and trial fit it on my own sample bolt and it fit.
Then I took both nuts and trial fit them on corresponding bolts. One of the nuts would hardly even start. I told the kid "this nut is defective" and he tried another nut (no fit), another nut (no fit), and a third nut (no fit). I took the nut off the second bolt in my hand and I asked him to hand me back the bolt he was still trying to match with a nut. Come to find out, it was the threads of the second new bolt that were screwed up, not the correct size nuts he was trying over and over again.
I said out loud: "You can't trust anything these days". The old timer (who overheard me) quipped back ... "and even the tortillas they sell are coming out raw."
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