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........Did you make arrangements for followup relief of that dastardly haz mat?............Buckshot

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No, I was maintaining a low profile.  I think the main reason I scored was that I was very quiet and polite when a loudmouth crowded in on a busy scene where several cars were being picked up.  The manager seemed to like me, so they will get my next service, and of course I will always have a spare bucket.  As the old Latin saying goes, "festina lente" (make haste slowly.)  curmudgeon 

I too took my truck in for some work - exhaust manifolds, both were cracked and it wouldn't pass VA state inspection.  Well they cursed and broke every stud and took them a lot longer to get it done plus added $150 to the bill for the extra work.  As this was my first experience with this Nissan dealer, we talked in a friendly manner about it is a 'Book Job' with a set price.  I sent moma off to pay the bill ALL OF IT, and I asked about wheel weights.

They PAY to have them carted off, I told them I would pay them instead.  Bottom line, the shop manager is putting a bucket aside for me and told me to stop back every couple of weeks and pick it up and I don't have to pay, too much paper work for the little bit they would get, plus they don't have to do an invoice for the trash man to pick up the 'scrap'.   I will take them some donughts when I do pick them up.  I will drop off a bucket with my name and number on it on my way home tomorrow (he did not ask for the bucket).

I will take all I can get, we never know when the sources will dry up.

Yep ! That's what I said! Need W/W for "Sinker" But the owner who's a woman said one time when I was picking up my 2nd or 3rd bucket! "You must go to the range alot"

Well I said your wright! I didn't want to lie to her.

When I made the rounds friday one of the places I get my ww from must have a new manger. He wanted $10 a bucket. I wanted to tell him where to go. Made me so mad. He said somebody came by monthly and got them. I would just about pay twice that from a scrap metal place than give this guy the money. The other tire place around the corner from him moved- I got to find the new store. Anyway, I went to the scrap metal place and bought a 457 lb 55-gal drum of what I thought was all roof flashing. When I got home and unloaded it, there were 5 or 6 pigs of lead in the bottom. Seemed to be about 20 or 30 lbs each. Linotype? Sure hope so. I gotta post a picture of one. The scrap metal place also had a heaping 55 gal barrel of ww- 1700 lbs!

Beau