Pardon me while I rant

[Chrispbrown36]

This weekend was going to be perfect! I had been watching the weather for a week waiting to see if everything would hold out like they said it would. By Friday morning when I got off of work...it was holding up. I had finally gotten the rotor hub assemblies, bearings, etc, etc. and would finally have the time to get the truck back up and running. I ran and picked up some odds and ends to get the job done and picked up a pair of exhaust manifolds I found on a local classifieds site for $20...things were looking great.
And then it all started going down hill. First wheel comes off, then the lockout and that's when I remember I forgot to get the spindle nut socket I had told myself over and over to buy. Well crap. Ok, I will mess around with the new exhaust manifolds until I can run and get the socket. Pull out the manifolds and realize they just don't look right. Mine, on the passenger side they dump out the back....on the drivers side they dump an inch or two before that. On the new ones both side dump straight out the back, like the passenger side on mine. Oh well, it's only 20 bucks. So I sat back down to see if I could come up with another way to get the spindle nut off without the socket. That's when I take a look at the tie rods that I had just put on in November....both sides the rubber boots had blown out on and they were as loose as they were before I replaced them. Crappy cheap parts.
So off to the computer I go to see what I can get locally this weekend. I decide since I couldn't get AC Delco I would go with Moog. Call up O'Reilly's armed with the parts number and staring at the website. Kid answers and I tell him I have an 87 Chevy V10. Kid laughs and says, "Uh....chevy doesn't make a V10" in a nice smart a** tone. I say, "Actually it's the model number not the motor." Kid laughs again and I say just look it up. Kid say, "Oh, yeah....I knew that...." Yeah ok. So I tell him I want Moog not the Master Pro. "Well, we have the Master Pro here." Don't care, I say, order the Moog. We then had a discussion about what part I actually needed....he was pretty sure I needed this part, but from looking at the website I could clearly see that it was not the tie rod end he was talking about it was the drag link. He protested. I insisted. Finally I convinced him that I did not want the part he kept trying to say I did. The part was ordered.....be here Saturday morning at 10:30.
11 am, I walk into o'Reilly's, looking forward to getting the part and getting the job done. Tell the guy I had ordered some Moog tie rod ends. He asks for my phone number and looks it up. "Ok, we have em.....wait did you say Moog?" Yes....yes I did. "Oh, well these are the Master Pro's....will that be ok?" You have got to be kidding me! I told the guy that I was very specific when I ordered them and that I didn't want to mess with house brands. He said, "Well, I can have them by Monday." At this point I told him I was done with it and walked out. Came home and ordered some AC Delco's that will be here Wednesday.
So the truck is sitting out there looking all sad and I have the urge to burn down every O'Reilly's I pass....