[AT] At the John Deere dealer.

[Indiana Robinson]

	I had to run over to my favorite John Deere dealer yesterday to pick up a new 
accelerator pump diaphragm for my 4020. After I choked down the $30 price we spent a 
little time looking around. This dealer is in a "VERY NICE" new building and the inside 
puts you more in mind of a nice huge modern Harley store than the typical old country 
farm implement dealer. While not cheap the pricing runs a little better that all of the 
rest of the Deere dealers around me which are all owned by one company now, Smith 
Implements. I didn't like that dealer back when he owned just one dealership. Now he owns 
all of the others very close to me except the one I was at yesterday. One of the things 
that makes the good one one of my favorites is that "everything" out for sale has posted 
prices... I detest going in a store (or even a yard sale) and asking over and over again 
"how much is this? How much is this? How much is this?... My general philosophy is "if it 
isn't priced, it isn't for sale".
	This place has a good sized room dedicated to "John Deere" labelled stuff. Some absurd 
in price and some actually quite reasonable. As we looked around we found an item I could 
not identify. It was a small disc about 2" across and about 1/4" thick. It had a small 
notch in the edge and was apparently some kind of ceramic. I guessed it to be maybe some 
kind of knife sharpening stone. It did BTW say "John Deere" on it. The manager stopped to 
chat and after I complimented him on having stuff (including the bigger stuff) priced I 
asked him "what is this?". He looked it over and said he had no idea but would find out. 
He came back a minute later and said "would you believe it is an insert to drop in a cup 
holder to absorb condensation from a drink can". He then just chuckled and shook his 
head. There were some pretty pricy John Deere fishing lures next to that disc. I asked 
him jokingly about what kind of fish were they designed to catch and he broke out in a 
big grin and said "suckers"...   ;-) 

	This dealer BTW has a web site at:
http://www.hendrens.com
	I go to the Franklin IN store. There are a couple of pictures of it on the web site.

-- 
"farmer", Esquire
At Hewick Midwest
      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...

Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100 
years 
before the revolution.


Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net