OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED GEARHEAD

As I sat around the other night at the weekly "prayer" meeting at the Our Lady of the Blessed Gearhead Church, the sermon opened with what it takes to get ones point across to some of the idiots we deal with when it comes to the our hobby.
On a regular basis we all deal with the $8.50hr kid who thinks he can sell parts at the local parts store because he can find it on the computer,if its not there then they don't stock it. We,ve all said the same thing,"Look in the book", Huh what??? Go back to delivering pizza for Dominos will ya.
From hear the sermon went with the flow of the quality of the parts you can get at certain parts store. Up here in Maine we have a local chain called VIP mostly junk but good for oil and filters and tires, then there is PEP BOYS, ok nuff said. NAPA or the No Available Parts Association. After a quite heated debate and tales of junk parts the Deacons of the church decided if your stores name (the main part) has a P in it we ain't buying crap from you.
The sermon then went with the cancellation of an event that saddened our hearts. The Annual Flag Day Run has been cancelled. Started a few years ago as a gathering of some of the old guys it turned into one the premier events of the season. the format was simple, just show up, have beer if you want, eat a hotdog or 2 and have good time. No Trophies or crap like that, no politics and that was a good thing just gearheads and some sweet rides.
We then broke out the sacrement and what happened then I can't write about.