You may not understand, but I'm gonna rant about it anyway.
I work in a paint store. I sell automotive paint to auto body shops. You can use a lot of different paint products on a depending on the quality you are looking for, how much you have to spend, and what you are trying to do.
Take primer for example. I have three different lines (or brands) of paint. Each line has a number of primers; there's self-etching primer, high build primer, primer surfacer, and then you have your choice of color; white, green, dark grey, light grey. So you can see right off the bat there are a many number of choices.
So, today this guy calls me and says, "Hey, Michelle. Can you send me that primer?"
That's like walking into a sporting goods store and saying "I need a ball." The problem is this guy knows there are a shitload of options. He's a painter for crying out loud! The arggravating part is that this guy does this to me all the time.
ME: Which primer do you need, man?
HIM: The PPG one
My company is a PPG distributor. PPG paint is all we have. So telling me he needs the PPG one doesn't narrow the options at all!
ME: Which PPG one?
HIM: The good one.
Once again, not a helpful statement.
ME: Um.............
HIM: You know, the one with the pink label.
Ok, now we have shortened the list to four possibilities.
ME: OK . . . Do you want the self-etching primer?
HIM: No, the other one. Hey, you want me to just go get the part number off the one I have?
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