Car Karma – Take One Million

My car is at the automobile hospital again. It’s been kind of humors, to me anyway so I’ve documented my phone calls …

7:45 am – Tom from R** Lars** calls
TOM: “this is Tom”
ME: “Tom?”
TOM: “From R** Lars**”
ME: “Oh, hey.”
TOM: “So I just wanted to call and tell you that we signed in your car and will call you once we know what the problem is.”
ME: “Um? Okay.”

*Seriously? 7:45 am just to tell me that they’ll look at my car later. Are you serious?

11:43 am - Tom from R** Lars** calls again
Tom: “Hey this is Tom” (Thankful I now know who Tom is now).
ME: “How’s my car?”
Tom: “Well your car needs a new car.”
ME: “WHAT? Are YOU SERIOUS?”
Tom: “Ha, ha – bad joke (at this point I want to kill Tom). No your car is fine we had to replace the parts we replaced last time because they were faulty. No charge”
ME: “Phew… When can I pick it up?”
Tom: “Well … (here it comes) … your front brakes are really bad, in fact you hardly have any pads left.”
ME: “How much?”
Tom: “$370.”
ME: “Fix’em”
Tom: “You also need ….”
ME: “How much?”
Tom: “$174”
ME: “Can that wait two weeks?”
Tom: “Totally.”
ME: “Then let’s wait.”

*Can you hear that? Yep that’s my savings shrinking…

12:10 pm - Tom from R** Lars** calls again x2
ME: “Hi Tom.”
TOM: “Oh, caller ID. This is Tom from R** Lars**
ME: “U-huh.”
TOM: “So I’m going to inflate your tires and adjust the back brakes.”
ME: “okay?”
TOM: “It’s totally free, just didn’t want you to think I was adding more work to your bill.”
ME: “U-huh.”
TOM: “So… your car should be ready for pick up tomorrow.”
ME: “Sounds good.”
TOM: “Great …”
ME: “Well, okay. Bye.”

*Is it just me or is this kind of getting weird? This guy Scott who I used to do play’s with loved calling me on the phone because he said I had a sex phone operator’s voice. I never thought so, but now I’m wondering…

~ Christy