Northern Virginia Roll Call

Dammit! Forgot to post an after pic.



This sucker was goooooood.

 

A young guy from North Carolina moves to Florida and goes to a big "everything under one roof" department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?" The kid says "Yeah. I was a vacuum salesman back in North Carolina."
Well, the boss was unsure, but he liked the kid and figured he'd give him a shot, so he gave him the job.
"You start tomorrow. I'll come down after we close and see how you did."
His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down to the sales floor.
"How many customers bought something from you today?" The kid frowns and looks at the floor and mutters, "One". The boss says "Just one?!!? Our sales people average sales to 20 to 30 customers a day.
That will have to change, and soon, if you'd like to continue your employment here. We have very strict standards for our sales force here in Florida. One sale a day might have been acceptable in North Carolina, but you're not in the mountains anymore, son."
The kid took his beating, but continued to look at his shoes, so the boss felt kinda bad for chewing him out on his first day. He asked (semi-sarcastically), "So, how much was your one sale for?"
The kid looks up at his boss and says "$101,237.65".
The boss, astonished, says $101,237.65?!? What the heck did you sell?"
The kid says, "Well, first, I sold him some new fish hooks. Then I sold him a new fishing rod to go with his new hooks. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn't think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4x4 Expedition."
The boss said "A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a TRUCK!?"
The kid said "No, the guy came in here to buy tampons for his wife, and I said, 'Dude, your weekend's shot, you should go fishing."

 

Not the best day for my first Reddish Knob run - then again, didn’t have to worry about single lane / right of way issues …

 

Airing up after a little Peters Mill Run today. New friend in the area who missed the last FPK run. Like other trails around here, a lot rockier on the north end, and just a little wet today. Almost escorted a new Bronco through, but the driver said his daughter had enough about a 1/2 mile in. He seemed unaware of the control arm issues with the truck.

 

Maybe next year...

 

Someone caught me wrapping presents.

 

That's quite an oddity.

 

Plumber no shows.
That checks out.

 

Hello from Lovettsville. Does anyone on here do metal fab? I have a M416 trailer that I want to do a few mods to…

 

Call Connor at CCD in P-ville

https://ccdmachinery.com/

They'll do pretty-much anything.

 

Ha! My name is Connor too...

 

Anyone semi-close to Quantico/ Stafford got the tools to do the ECGS clamshell bushing?

 

I don't, but I highly recommend letting ECGS do it. It's not that far of a drive and the cost was small.

 

Not a bad idea at all! Thank you.

 

Yup. It's what I did. And a few others have done similar. I think I paid $160 installed; including the bearing. I had an appointment and was out in a few hours. I imagine the price has risen a little, but probably still worth it.

 

who's hoping for another snowmageddon this weekend??

 

I'm afraid we'll be on the rainer side of things here in Spotsylvania...

 

Meeeeee!