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and your life is a constant contest to see if you can be the biggest useless douche bag on the planet...

you are progressing quite nicely....I think you'll reach your goals...

oh and I see in the thread on the Blue Angels, that you have roots in San Fran, or "The City" as you called it...

you having ties to Frisco... well that certainly filled in the blanks...thanks for that brief glimpse into your life...

I can see it's the estrogen that grew your tits.

So you are from Frisco....

its Sunday morning and you are dwelling on thoughts on estrogen and guys 'tits'....

as I said, that fact you being from Frisco, filled in the blanks..

at least you're proud of your girls, and not hiding the fact.

i'll give you credit for that.

Never mentioned my daughters Brucey....

you going pervert on us on top of it all?

I'd tell ya to get psychological help.. but that would end the floor show...

Those Ted Williams shotguns and shells were way cool to gaulk at as a young lad....I actually have a box of some TW's 410 paper shells.

I quit Sears 30 years or so ago when I had some work done on a Kenmore refrigerator. Called the service dept. gave them the model and serial #, told them exactly what was wrong and scheduled a service call. The guy shows up, checks out the fridge, and tells me he's got to go back to the shop to get that part, doesn't carry it on the truck. I said I'd given them all the information and what he would need so he should have had it with him. Didn't miss a beat, just said we don't carry that one on the truck and made the 15 mile trip back to the store for the part. Got charged two 30 mile round trips when they knew beforehand what they needed. I found out several people in our small town had had the same treatment.

Funny stuff, right there!

Around here Sears heavily caters to the illegals. Last time I was in there the sales clerk asked an obviously illegal couple if they wanted a credit card - 4 different times while I was waiting in line. While I was paying I asked how they expected to collect on credit card debt if they extend credit to illegals. She said she understood what I was talking about, but was pressured by management to do so.

I have not been back.

they tried to provided quality products at high prices and were competing with stores selling inferior products at low prices. they then switched to inferior products and didn't match the walmart prices. people figured it out and left them in droves. i'm one of them. i will never buy anything from sears again after being burned quite a few times. they just need to go out of business.

They stopped carrying sporting goods and outdoor equipment. They farmed out their formerly fantastic brand (Craftsman, formerly made in the US) to China to have it made like crap, cheaply. When those two things happened, the writing was on the wall and it was only a matter of time.

Add in other retailers in the market for their remaining wares (Target, Wal-Mart) are considerably less expensive and have a wider variety of goods. When you have less variety, higher prices, and don't have a remaining name brand reputation to hold out against your competitors, you're dead in the free market.

Sears was never my "go to" as I grew up in a city.
Twenty years ago I bought a house and moved to the suburbs. I liked Craftsman tools and Kenmore appliances.
Years ago I needed a battery and asked one of the slick foreigner sales guys for one. He said, "I'll get one" and ran off somewhere. Only problem was I didn't show him the battery I had brought in. I still don't know where he was going.
Craftsman isn't Craftsmen any longer.
I don't shop at Sears anymore.

My old man started at Sears in 1960, the year I was born. He worked for them for 38 years and had the record for ever as the longest time as an employee in N.TX
He retired in 1998, when they cut his vacation from 10 weeks to 4 weeks, because he always used his Vacation time for planting & harvesting cotton.

IMO, they have gone steadily down hill for the last 25 years. They got rid of all the Guns, ammo, Camping, Fishing, and their appliance were downgraded to cheap crap. Now their Craftsman Tools are even made in China. They aligned themselves with K-Mart and couldn't keep up with Wally World. It won't bother me in the least to see them go under. Good Riddance, I say!

For me the day Sears sold off their credit card business to a
separate entity is the day I walked away, that has to be forty years or longer ago. That to me is when the real slide started.
Many financial experts were saying when Sears & K-Mart joined forces was when they both were going, going, gone Cheers NC

i will say one thing good about sears though. at one time they made a hell of a garden tractor. for $25 my boys bought a mid-80's craftsman II 18hp, 2 speed rearend, 6 speed tractor for souping up for tractor drags. we replaced the plugs and belt and hoses and when i started looking at how this thing was built, i told them there was no way they were going to ruin it racing it. i use it at my camp for hauling and drunk driving on the trails between camps. its a friggen beast. 2 cylinder v twin engine, sounds like a harley. we call it Mowzilla. it is legendary at our camp now.

I have new and old and the new is every bit as fine as the old. Just bought this set.

http://www.amazon.com/Craftsman-009...ftsman+professional+tools#productDetails

Jeez.....i forgot how gorgeous their bait casters were.
My dad bought a Pflueger bait caster from Sears but never could master it. He then bought a simply beautiful auto-retrieve fly reel and a Ted Williams bamboo fly rod. That urge faded soon.
I wonder who made their fly reels and casting reels.

I have a 26hp Craftsman garden tractor with the Kohler engine. You're right...its a horse. I have the hydrostat transmission which I might regret someday when it breaks down but it's been 8 years so far without a hitch. I sure makes mowing a lot easier than shifting gears. I have a front blade on it for plowing snow but we haven't had enough snow since I bought it to really test it. It handles 4" great but that's not much of a test.

I don't know if the current models are as good as this one, though.

A couple years ago, I needed new blades and made the mistake of using mulching blades. The dang things kept the deck clogged up constantly. They're ok in 3" grass but not in anything deeper.

I thought you said you weren't addicted to old reels. . Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.

Just remembered the "Lands End" episode. They sure managed to FUBAR that company in a great big hurry, too.