Randy Wray’s Blog

WARNING:  Today’s post contains a rant regarding a local business in the Stockton / Lodi area.  To skip the rant simply skip 3. 

1.  I want to introduce everyone to Ebere, codename ebyboy.  He’s a mighty ping-pong player, thinker, and astute conversationalist.  We lured him to comment on yesterday’s post.

2.  Being a man of principles - never afraid to take a stand - I’m boycotting American Idol until Sanjaya is voted off.  I plead with all girls ages 10-13 to stop using up valuable bandwidth with "gosh, like a million text messages a day because he’s just so cute and all, like, you know."

3.  We’re still trying to finalize a house purchase and trying to get some repairs done in escrow.  One of the repairs is new windows.  A contractor giving us an estimate on replacing the fence called a local glass company [TOKAY GLASS COMPANY] to come give us a bid for replacing the windows. 

They didn’t show up on Tuesday so I called yesterday to see if they were going to show up on Wednesday.  The call went something like this:

ME - Hello, my name is Randy Wray and I was expecting a visit from an estimator.

TOKAY - Oh yeah, you don’t own the house yet.

ME - No, but the seller of the house is including window replacement as part of selling the house and we get to choose the windows and the company.

TOKAY - I think we’re going to pass on this job.

ME - Excuse me?

TOKAY - We don’t want to send someone out to do an estimate without a guarantee that we will get the job.

ME - Do you understand what you’re saying?

TOKAY - Yes.

ME - I’m sorry you feel that way.

TOKAY - Hey, it’s just business.

So after stewing for a few minutes and composing a great sermon on divine retribution - hey, it just happens to be my business - I did a quick google and found QUALITY GLASS.  The call went something like this:

ME - Hello, my name is Randy Wray and I need an estimate for window replacement to be done during escrow.  Can you guys do that.

QUALITY - Absolutely, when would you like someone to come out?

ME - Can you do it today?

QUALITY - Everyone’s out on a job right now but I’ll get back with you today and let you know if it is possible.

ME - Great, thanks.

And a couple hours later they call back and say we’ve got someone who can come out right now.  It seems the folks at QUALITY subscribe to a different business theory.  You know, that theory that understands if you don’t do estimates it’s a guarantee you won’t do any work.

4.  My final four includes Oregon, Kansas, Georgetown and Texas A&M.  The national championship will be Oregon vs. Texas A&M.  I pick Oregon to win it all baby!