Gale Force Winds, snow tires, and did you turn your clocks back?

We had gale force winds on Saturday, so what you ask.........well thanks to the wind we now have no leaves left on the trees, and more importantly, the wind blew what ever leaves there was on the grass away........YEAH........this may mean I do not have to get the lawn tractor out again and mow them!!

On Friday we went to put snow/winter tires on my car. Now we went to a famous Canadian store that starts with that name; Canadian **** Now I don't work retail, but I am well aware, especially with this store, what it says you have in inventory and what you actually have on the shelves is generally night and day. So we drop the car off and then went on our merry way, to do some shopping in the plaza. We were told to come back in and hour and a half, which is what we did, only to find my car on the hoist with no tires on it???

So I say, "okay what's the problem?"

For them to say,"well we can't find the new rims."

Me, "why not, you do have stock don't you?"

For them to say, "oh yes, the computer says we have four in stock."

For me to exclaim, "why didn't you check the stock and pull out the stock, before you took off my tires, as you must know how unreliable your inventory system is, don't you?"

Them, "oh we have them, as it says so in the computer."

Me, well I'm just rolling my eyes at that comment.

So to cut a long story short, yes they managed to find the rims and installed them with the tires, and what should have taken an hour tops, took two hours {{{SIGH}}} At least it's done now so that's the main thing.

We need to have snow/winter tires on up here apparently as we're guaranteed snow, so everyone says???

For those of us in North America and Canada, did you remember to turn back the clocks last night before you went to bed? I hope so :0)