Pool stores, devils and anti-christs.

[SalemCastles]

Well I must say that Leslie's Corporate and the store in Taylor Michigan are doing right by me ..they mistakenly sold me their store kit instead of a new one which my Cousin drove down from Ontario to pick-up, and they are sending me a full refund and letting me keep the kit. It had Bromine reagents in it but I got Chlorine replacements from the Canadian Distributor so I'm good. They obviously could have just said too bad so sorry knowing they will likely never sell me anything in the future, or at least asked for the kit back.

Glenn in Toronto

[CarlD]

In my favorite store there's a guy who won't push calcium on vinyl pool owners, knows pretty much what's what and is great on parts. Another guy thre tried to convince me that copper doesn't turn blonde hair green and is great stuff. But their LC is this freshest and strongest and they turn over pallets of the stuff

Leslies is a mixed bag. I'm had one guy GIVE me a the only container of R-0870 powder because he didn't know what it was and couldn't find a price. Another store had a close-out on the combo FAS-DPD-Monopersulfate test kit for $20...it's $65 from Taylor. I've also had a Leslies guy tell me "bleach is bad. It raises your total dissolved solids" (ie, salt). Yet they sell, online a re-badged version of the K2006 kit.

There are good and bad people in pool stores, just like in Home Depot and Best Buy, but most are decent people with incredibly bad information.

Carl

[posguy]

LOL, this reminds me of the time I decided to mess with the kid restocking eggs at ShopRite, I asked if they were chicken eggs, he replied "I'm not sure"

[PoolDoc]

Ah yes, the old and sneaky vs the young and stupid.

My 16 year old and I play this game all the time. My two favorite responses:
". . . (long pause) . . . Ah crap, Dad. You did it again, didn't you?"
and
"I know, I know. You're trying to teach me to think before I speak. Darn it."

My all time favorite with ANY teen:
We were on a Scout camping trip, and the 15 year old was declaiming on the evils of nuclear weapons and and the wonders of unilateral disarmament. I was 'uhm-ing' in the right places. When he finally paused, I said "Yeah. It really is terrible, when all those people were killed with nuclear weapons, they were so much deader than they would have been with just a bullet!"

He responded with, "Yeah, that's right . . . wait, what?". He got the "what?" out just before the Assistant Scoutmaster and his father (who were both in earshot) started howling.

Ben