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CONGRATULATIONS NORTHERN NEW JERSEY 0N 75 YEARS!! 1950-2025!
Stories, Past and Present, from our Northern New Jersey Region
This month’s story is from the NNJR August 2000 NNJR Pole Position.
This is an excerpt from the article titled “Huber’s Hash” written by Walter Huber.
“From pig giveaways to collecting socks…..Some years back, in answer to a competing auto dealership’s advertised wild sales offers in the local newspaper, Stu Lasser ran an ad offering “a free pig” to anyone buying a car from his dealership. I don’t know how many cars his unusual sales approach sold for him back then, but I never saw anyone drive out of the dealership with a porker in the back seat.
Now I also have to wonder how many job applicants his Saturn dealerships in Denville, Morristown and Livingston have received resulting from an ad which Stu recently ran in the Morris County Daily Record. Looking for a ‘Parts Counter Trainee,’ here’s the text of the ad: ‘How good are you at remembering numbers? How good are your PC skills? How good are you at tinkering with cars? How good are you at cleaning socks? If you answered ‘not too shabby’ to all four questions, we may have a career opportunity for you. Please go to Saturn of Denville, Morristown or Livingston with a clean pair of socks and apply now. Become part of a different kind of Parts Dept.’
Question is: Are the Saturn Parts Departments different because they wear clean socks? Or because they’re good at remembering numbers? I mean, when it comes to socks, how many numbers do you have to remember? ‘Two socks: ‘One pair. It’s not like you’ve got to remember the value of pi out to someone exacting decimal (3.14159265….)……
…..In the June issue of this newsletter, then editor Joe DeLuca removed all the quotes and apostrophes in an effort to save ink and space. Following a tumultuous outcry from the membership, Joe promised to reinstall the quotes and apostrophes in the next issue. Always a man of his word, the July issue did again carry these punctuation marks which made for easier reading. But Joe is not without a spiteful side to his usual happy-go-lucky nature. For the July issue, in a fit of pique over his June issue reprimand, he allowed the printer to remove the table of contents which is usually printed under the cover photo. So last month you were forced to search the entire issue whenever you wanted to find one item or article. Tsk-tsk!”
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