"Now if it does not have to do with cell phones or car audio they
just give you this dumb look.. "

Heh.. went into my local Radio Shack and asked if they had any antenna
masts in stock. Guy goes and looks on the shelves. I say "I'd like a
TV mast, it's in the back if you have it, it's ten feet long" Guy
looks on the shelves some more, points to the mast brackets.

I'm like, "It's a ten feet long piece of steel pipe it wouldn't be out
here, it isn't out here, it wouldn't fit out here, it's in the BACK."
I look it up on the internet on the computer in the store and show them
that yes, they do have them in stock.

Of course, he doesn't think they've got any. Twenty minutes after I
walk in, I'm finally leaving with a five foot and a ten foot mast
section which they, of course, had. Guy is just incredulous that I'm
going to walk out of the store with a ten foot piece of pipe. They
then ask me if I need a cell phone ;-)

Dan