tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15377099348648750732011-04-22T01:35:33.844-04:00Norm's Corner is devoted solely to the needs of the automotive repair and gasoline trades. Questions of general interest to the auto services industry (including insurance and other administrative challenges facing today's facility owner) are invited.The Garage Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05904373618730837179noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537709934864875073.post-76698096272838505062009-02-23T13:23:00.001-05:002009-02-23T13:23:24.771-05:00

There is really a schizophrenic quality to the moment.   Is the country (maybe the world) really on the brink of an economic disaster? Or are we in the middle of a recession from which the country (according to some Republican members of congress) will recover on its own?   There being no real Edward Murrows any longer, and as many opinions as there are blogs (such as the one you are now

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My objection to the stim is that it takes an enormous sum of money and...just spends it. There is no national goal attached, no priority and no cogent explanation.What I want to know is, after spending a trillion dollars, what will we HAVE for it?Will we develop an alternative energy economy? Or a national high speed rail system? Or Health care for everyone?Not in this plan, not as far as I

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    There is something fundamentally askew in a society which seeks to reward those who pay no income tax with tax rebates (in the name of financial stimulus), rescue mortgage holders who cynically used non-existent equity to support lifestyles they had not earned and which is now instead pouring money by the bucketful into firms which abused and gamed the system (in the name of a rescue

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      I am losing my enchantment with the direction of the Obama recovery plan.  I realize that some of this is above my pay grade however it seems to me that if we are going to spend a trillion dollars, we ought to have something great and meaningful at the end. And I would also say that appearances count in the way that this is to be administered.   To my eyes, the recovery plan seems to

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If you are selling gas, check out the price that your trucking company is charging you.  I take 6 full loads weekly and was being charged 4.5 cents per gallon. I got a competitive quote which saved me $160 per load--nearly $1,000 per week from another trucking company.   Why the price difference?  I don't know--maybe the travel time was different or maybe they were just being competitive.

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Sorry for the long delay between posts.I am always on the look out for stories that illustrate my way of looking at life. Here's one:We all know a guy like my customer Jim. You tell him that you just put in a new above-ground pool at your house and he tells you about his new 20 x 50 in-ground job. If he happens to be around when another customer is asking about a set of new tires, Jim will be

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The blond came home and found the front door ajar and upon looking inside herhome it had been obviuosly ransacked. Fearfull the the intruder might still be onthe inside she did not enter and called the police. When the police dispatcher putout the call the nearest patrol car was a K-9 unit, so he responded. When theofficer pulled up and got out of his patrol car with his dog the blond repliedO

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Recent experience that happened here, a normal situation of my name is so and so,we both know a mutual acquaintance, can I give you a competitive quote on yourgarage liability insurance. Of course I said yes. When the quote came it was quotedwith only 3 employees when the agent knew there are 12 employees. If I did notresearch the quote I would have considered changing agents. So a word to the

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1-Prefererably the owner if not the manager is on the premises most of the time -regular business hours2-Professional shop, it may be older and worn but it must be clean, neat and mostimportant organized. Todays debris on the floor is o.k. but not yesterdays or even worselast weeks. All employee's must be in uniform, clean neat and fresh.3-No discord, no screaming, yelling or bickering,

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Question for all you folks that have successful business operations-why is it that the harder and longer we work the more lucky the customer perceives that we are? I would like to share a cute joke that one of my female customers told me-she said having sex with a man is like a snow storm. I responded with a quizzical look and said-huh? she replied, you don't know how many inches you are

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Please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Norman Dawson (that's why it's Norman's corner, mystery solved), I have owned and operated this full service gas station (yes we clean windows), and repair facility for more than 43 years. I have been repairing combustion engines for more than 50 years which includes my own 70 Chevelle (a gas class race car), lawn mowers, back pack blowers, etc etc.

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