<VV> How Capitalism Works

[Smitty]

Smitty Says;  Capitalism works different around here.  Club member mechanic 
is replacing rear bearings on a newbie member's car.  It had green bearings 
on it.  He says do you have any old bearing shells?  Yeah I got a few. 
Could I get a couple to rebuild for so-and-so's car?  OK, come on over.  As 
he is digging out the "unrusted" ones from the stash I see that he is cherry 
picking a couple of sets of dust shields.  I said, hey, those are kind of 
hard to come by.  He says, well so-and so didn't have any on his bearings, 
he needs them.  Then I start talking to myself..  You have kept those from 
the junk pile for 30 years.  Yeah but what are you going to do with them. 
You don't do flea markets and if you sold them for 5 bucks a set it wouldn't 
change your lifestyle one bit you cheap ass.  So I give away a pair of 
bearing cores and dust shields and all I have to show for it is an empty 
spot.
            Another big gain.  Guy says, I'm taking those manifold covers 
off.  All they do is make the engine run hot.  Months later.  Guess I better 
get my heater working.  Smitty do you have any decent manifold covers.  All 
depends on what you call decent.  I have some that aren't rusted through. 
What did you do with the ones you took off?  Oh I threw them away.  they 
were rusty and dented.  He comes over and I give him a pair.  Man these are 
almost as bad as the ones I took off.  Oh, I threw away the thermostat door 
frames too.  Do you have any of those?  I find him a couple and am running 
my cheapass routine through my head.  He says , these are kind of bent up. 
don't you have any better ones.  I took the 4 pieces and threw them back up 
into the garage attic.  I told him he should talk to this guy or that guy 
because they probably would have better ones.  (They were also going to cost 
him some bucks even if they were as bad as mine).