<HTML><HTML> In a message dated 1/11/04 8:46:03 PM, avery@ev1.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE">My question is, have = any of you ever had a dealer replace your brake pads?? :-) </BLOCKQUOTE> No, but I had a dealer replace the locks on the tech shop when my supervisor= suddenly quit.  And she didn't bother to tell me so I went in to work= and was surprised to find that I couldn't get in.  I called her to as= k her what was going on, she told me that the shop was closed for an indefin= ite amount of time.  I asked her if it would reopen and if I still had= a job, and she told me I didn't have the right to ask that question!  = This still boggles my mind.  I worked there for 8 months, showing up = on time, doing my best work, and I don't have the right to ask whether I sti= ll have a job?  She never called me when the shop reopened.  I n= ow work for another rebuilding shop.  Replace my brake pads...Ha!  C-note for Xmas...not likely! Now, on the other side of the coin, I recently had a playing gig for a local= art museum that wanted mood music during a brunch/presentation for a group = of teachers.  My car got towed while I was picking up a rental keyboar= d for the gig, and the museum paid for my towing!  Tom Sivak</HTML>