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Another Day in Paradise
This was my first visit to GS and I was pretty excited to see what they had, as well as what they could do. My main interest was to try out a bunch of different Miyazaki shafts to make sure the one I have, (still untipped and ungripped), was the right one for me before proceeding with the setup. To my dismay GS had no Miyazaki shafts. However, this was a classic visit. I got to meet "The Worlds Most Knowledgeable Salesman".
I'll call him Tim, I hate using real names here, lol. When Tim was called to my aid he entered the scene very animated, smiling and talking 100 words a minute. After explaining why I was there he immediately informed me that he worked on the side as a tester or something for a shaft company called Excalibur and that they had better shafts than any other company including, while he touched my Miyazaki, these boy's. At this point I just tell him, hey man I already have this right or wrong so lets proceed with this inferior shaft, lol.
Looking a bit crushed that I shut down his sales pitch, we proceed over to the fitting counter where I tell him I'm looking for R9 tips and the works to tip this dude myself. Here's where I go through several minutes of hearing how I'm too stupid to do it myself. Liz was along and seeing my blood boiling mentioned that maybe we could let him just do this one being its such an expensive stick, I could practice on the old original shaft. Ok, I can buy that, especially if it keeps me from dragging this idiot by his right ear out to the ally. but, while looking for the grip I wanted, he tried to tell me which grip to get. One look and he walked away, hahaha.
Liz and I go have lunch and come back, wait a little while and the shaft is finally done. We walk back to the balls and are looking at the Srixon yellows when guess who shows up? "Oh, you should try these", lol. I never even looked, I said nope got what we want, but thanks. "Well what kind of ball do you generally prefer"? and like a dumba@# I say a spiny ball. He picks up the D2 balls and said these are about as spiny as you can get. My comment was, "Oh?" "What about the Penta or Bridgestone RXS ball"? He say's they don't hold a candle.
We pay and leave with Liz pushing me, hahaha. What a trip. I'm not saying the guy was not smarter than I in all of this, I simply cannot be in a room with a know it all. The hair on the back of my neck stands straight out, I start seething and just want to grab him, but I think I did very well with it this time. Actually kind of proud of myself, lol.
I'll call him Tim, I hate using real names here, lol. When Tim was called to my aid he entered the scene very animated, smiling and talking 100 words a minute. After explaining why I was there he immediately informed me that he worked on the side as a tester or something for a shaft company called Excalibur and that they had better shafts than any other company including, while he touched my Miyazaki, these boy's. At this point I just tell him, hey man I already have this right or wrong so lets proceed with this inferior shaft, lol.
Looking a bit crushed that I shut down his sales pitch, we proceed over to the fitting counter where I tell him I'm looking for R9 tips and the works to tip this dude myself. Here's where I go through several minutes of hearing how I'm too stupid to do it myself. Liz was along and seeing my blood boiling mentioned that maybe we could let him just do this one being its such an expensive stick, I could practice on the old original shaft. Ok, I can buy that, especially if it keeps me from dragging this idiot by his right ear out to the ally. but, while looking for the grip I wanted, he tried to tell me which grip to get. One look and he walked away, hahaha.
Liz and I go have lunch and come back, wait a little while and the shaft is finally done. We walk back to the balls and are looking at the Srixon yellows when guess who shows up? "Oh, you should try these", lol. I never even looked, I said nope got what we want, but thanks. "Well what kind of ball do you generally prefer"? and like a dumba@# I say a spiny ball. He picks up the D2 balls and said these are about as spiny as you can get. My comment was, "Oh?" "What about the Penta or Bridgestone RXS ball"? He say's they don't hold a candle.
We pay and leave with Liz pushing me, hahaha. What a trip. I'm not saying the guy was not smarter than I in all of this, I simply cannot be in a room with a know it all. The hair on the back of my neck stands straight out, I start seething and just want to grab him, but I think I did very well with it this time. Actually kind of proud of myself, lol.
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