Radio Shack; The joy AND bane of my micro scale existance!

[Namuna]

Radio Shack, since getting into the micro scale rc scene, has been a 2nd home to me. Tools, accessories, etc...Just about anything to do with the technical nature of the tiny cars can be gotten there. This is the 'joy' of Radio Shack.

Now, unless you know EXACTLY what you need...You're SCREWED because it seems that Radio Shack Headquarters has decided that one of the REQUIREMENTS of working at a Radio Shack is that you have ABSOLUTELY ZERO experience with electronics or anything of a technical sense...Now, I DON'T mean to degrade the people that do get a job there (for all I know they might be very educated in whatever OTHER field they're in) it's just that they have NIL knowledge of the things in Radio Shack.

Now when I say you need to know EXACTLY what you want, I'm not talking about just description...You BETTER KNOW what the heck it looks like too! and if possible the exact part number. Why? Well did you actually think the people that don't know what they're selling would know what the heck you're talking about? No my friend, you're going on a scavenger hunt to find your item.

Well, I guess the good thing is that now I know pretty much the entire store layouts for about 3 Radio Shacks in my area.