Guess I'm aging myself. This was back in 1983-1986. LOL

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Chaplain (1LT) Lonnie J. Potter
Aide-de-Camp
Kentucky Brigade, Third Division
United States Corps of Chaplains
"Richard Crowley" wrote in message
...
"Noon-Air" wrote ...
With all due respect Sir, I happy your boss got a gold plated "attaboy",
but I can't believe that your incident has happened in the last 5 years.
If you walk into a RS store in these parts(south Mississippi) and ask for
a tube, they will look at you like you are nuts.... then ask "A tube of
what??". Their employees are clueless if its not in the latest sale flier
or the catalog. Just in the last couple of weeks, I was looking for
simple, basic porcelin or glass "dog bone" insulators to build a
counterpoise for a verticle HF antenna. I walked in there with a picture
of a couple of different styles of insulators and they were totally
baffled.... never heard of them before, and never seen such. I got the
same response from 4 (count'em FOUR) RS stores.

Its hard to get good help these days.
Maybe they thing there is more of a future in the
leather business.