im over it
dude this thread wasnt made to be an arguement thread, it was to tell you about my saturday and see if anyone else has had incidences like this.
honestly why are you so defencive about this

idatto did you ever think your watch might be 8 minutes slow !

get over it far worse things happen in life .

Sheesh what a whinger.

Is this a serious topic?

i love how people actually get offended and feel like writing long posts on the internet about a trivial nothing issue, it's hilarious to read :)
but dodgeman i think you may have one this internet warrior battle :D

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Quote:Yeah yeah, open till the stated time, right.
Perhaps you should have paid more attention in math class. 11:52 from 12:00 is still eight minutes in my book & it's still cutting it fine.

If you don't want people to make statements of the obvious when you have a bitch session, then don't have a bitch session. If you want nothing but sympathy, then go tell your dog.

If you had wanted him to be 'open till 12:00' then turning up a little earlier might have meant that he was going to service your needs if you were 'still there' at noon, but you know, if business is slow, well, we all like to get home when we can.

I work in a retail outlet & can understand how these things happen. Some days I'm there several hours after closing time, some days I'm not.
Life's a bitch, move on.

Not gonna get inbetween dodge and idatto, but yea, I do love saturdays. Worked on the coupe all day and now I'm gettin soused

"dodgeman"
it was ten minutes before he said he would shut.
buddy you dont get it,
the shop is "OPEN" till 12 not we shut at "11:50"
they put these times on the doors and tell people these times so that they can get there before they shut.

thankyou for telling me waking up earlier would have been better....i couldnt think of that myself

well give me #OOPS# as much as you want, but a shop that sells lowering block kits, i figured they would sell parts of the kits as well....

keep to yourself next time.

^^^ What he said.

I have learnt over the years to have the parts first, then procrastinate over doing the job. Then at least you are not left high and dry when you are a U bolt short.

I remember being caught out almost exactly the same.

I had 2 HG Holden's, one was a parts car and lowered, I pulled apart the daily first, then the bolts turned out to be bent and no good on the donor, then putting the daily back together one of the bolts snapped. Yay. At least they were standard bolts and not U bolts. Nobody was open though. So I consulted the "Magic Bucket". Turns out had the right bolt to do the lowering job to start with, So the daily comes apart again and gets lowered. End result, Acted thrice, thought once. That's what you get for being stoned and bored on a Sunday.

Leaving it untill 8 minutes before the deadline when the store shuts is cutting it a bit thin. The bloke who works there probably wants to go home at the end of his shift just the same as the rest of us & just because you said that you would be there doesn't mean diddley squat.
Saying it is one thing, doing it is another & a very substantial percentage of callers that say that they will call in, ........... don't.

If your dealings at the store took, say, 20 minutes, would it be OK for him to ask you to leave at the 8 minute mark [12 noon] since he would be 'off the clock' at that point, or is he expected to work on for free, then go through the packing-up & closing-up shop procedure.

If you want to do this stuff on a Saturday morning, then starting at 7:30am is a much better idea as it gives you a much better time buffer.

Expecting general parts outlets to stock long U bolts for use with lowering blocks is really a bit of an ask. They are not really a big turnover item any more in these days of front drive & independant rear suspension cars, & stocking slow or non moving parts is simply not smart from a business perspective.
Dismantling a car before you have all of the required [specialised] parts to complete the job late on a Saturday morning is not too smart either, as you have now discovered.

Think twice, act once.

Ahhhhhhh! the joys of working on cars!!!!

it happens to the best of us!

The phrase 'P.O.E.T.S DAY' comes to mind, Piss Off Early Todays Saturday!!