I know this blog area is suppose to be a place where I "wax philosophically" (I have to wax the cars, might as well wax that too), about the goings on in the garage. Today however, I'm going to jump on a soapbox and discuss an issue that is very serious to me.
Tools are my life. Two days ago I wrote about working on Mustangs and the need for lots of patience and a complete set of tools. So I value a good set of tools. They are an investment and the price never seems to go down on them.
Today, the Snap On tool guy stopped by the shop. I own a few Snap On tools but they seem a little pricey for a budget racer like me. Lots of tool companies try to gain your business by throwing lifetime guarantees and freebies at you. I'm all about the give-aways. So the Snap On guy offers me a free calendar (only 4 months into the year so it's still has 2/3rds life left on it). I get pretty stoked because I know that Snap On calendars are legendary for having some pretty hot babes in short shorts, holding bright shiny chrome tools. I grew up with these calendars. I think the first bare breast I ever saw was on a car calendar. So it is part of our mechanical heritage. A birthright to every maintenance man in America.
I get my Snap On Calendar, thank the Snap On tool guy and eager with anticipation (giddy as a teenage girl at a backstreet boys concert), I go to a secluded corner of the garage to study the latest tools from Snap On.
To my surprise and horror (What the deuce????!!!), the calendar was filled with cars. No women. Not even ONE pair of cut off blue jean shorts.
I see great cars every day. Hell, I even have a couple in the garage sitting on the lifts right now. What I wanted to see was hot blondes in cut off blue jean short shorts with a little smudge of grease on their cute little faces, holding the latest pneumatic impact wrench.
I was outraged. Another American institution was gone. As I asked around, it seems that Snap On had quit using these very talented women mechanics to model their tools a few years ago (shows how much in the loop I am about such things). Something about being politically incorrect or some such nonsense.
I felt the need to make my voice heard, so I called Snap On Industrial Customer service to lodge a complaint. I urge every red blooded American maintenance man to do the same. 877-740-1900 is the Snap On Customer Service line (Don't tell them I sent you. They'll hang up and report you).
Another day, another blog, another subject and another "no fun" on the fun
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