I need some new tires . . .

There it is, I said it and I can't take it back.

First let me explain a little bit about my experience with tires. I have had several different types of vehicles all with different requirements for the tires on them. I have owned cars where I wanted tires that produced a soft-smooth ride and good gas mileage; trucks with off-road tires that would need to be used in the snow without chains; high-performance cars where you wanted the tires to produce maximum traction/adhesion; truck tires that were rated for maximum load carrying capacity and just about everything in between.

I have experience putting wider than standard tires on a vehicle and different brands and constructions of tires on the same vehicle and track-testing with timing equipment to make suspension adjustments to fit the vehicles handling characteristics based on what that particular tire likes to get optimum performance. I have some driver training in high-performance cars and track-time behind the wheel with instructors so I know what it feels like to spin a car out at highway speeds and push a vehicle to the limits of tire adhesion.

Given my background when I go to the "tire store" I know a little bit about what I'm talking about when it comes to selecting tires for the vehicles I drive.

Every time I have gone into this one Discount Tire store near my house I have come away feeling like I have been assaulted by a used-car-salesman and treated like I just didn't know shit about tires. I imagine the salesperson believes "what could this customer possibly know about tires when he does not work at a tire store?"

Well I say "fuck you Discount Tire salesman," I really do know a little bit about the tires I have selected and would like you to order for me. I realize that your pathetic bullshit existence is really only a road-block to me achieving my goal of replacing the tires on my vehicle with the tires I want rather than letting you talk me into some crap-tastic tire that you have way, way overstocked your warehouse with and are begging people to purchase so you can win your "tire salesman of the month" douch-tastic award, but I have to ask "do you get a commission on the sale?"

I know not all Discount Tire stores are run by the same salespeople, but the one by my house just flat-out sucks balls. I really must send an email to Discount Tires corporate office telling just how they lost a customer and what a royal-jerk the salesman at that store is.

Bad news for Discount Tire, I'm telling everyone you suck!