foolishly went to a bike shop instead of my mom's (where I left some of my tools), but hey I wanted to bike not drive.

I just wanted to replace a full link with a half link to take some slack out of my chain while it's "slammed", dude was like "why not just add a full link?" and I was like "because I want to slam the wheel all the way into the track ends, not all the way out and still have tension with just the slightest bit of play". So he takes my bike back and I browse his wheels. Brings it out and I see the wheel is probably a half inch back now and I say "no man, I wanted it as close to the seat-tube as I could get it, I wanted to *replace* a full with a half, not just add onto it. He looks at me and the bike and says "oh yeah you'd have no room for that, besides this is good enough, this is basically track" - measures it "19 in...err 18.5, yep almost track, you'd have no more room and you'd never be able to get your chain on". Clearly he didn't want to do what I asked so I just gave him his $5 and left and will go pick up my chain tool tomorrow.