Here's one to make you all laugh. Last night my wife and I took her
Toyota Camery to the local dealership for an oil change. This took well
over the time that they had told us it would take and I was getting
impatient. Just then we got a call to come to the service desk. The lady
nicely told us that it was going to cost us an extra 1.50 or so, since
the car took an extra quart of oil. We thought that that was strange,
they had never charged us for an extra quart before. I thought "I'm
going to look and see how many quarts this thing really holds once we
get to the car." Thinking that they had scammed us for a 1.50 more. I
knew that the owners manual would tell me the capacities.
The car was now ready to go. My wife hopped into the drivers seat and I
immediately got the owners hand book out. I was sure that they were
trying to pull one over on us. Just then my wife says "Should this red
light on the dash be on?" I looked over. It was the oil pressure idiot
light. "No" I said. "Shut the car off." I was still looking through the
owners book, trying to find the capacities. "What should I do?" my wife
asked. I told her to go inside the dealership and let them know that the
light wasn't going out. So, she did. Meanwhile, I was still looking
through the book when it dawned on me what was happening. "I'd better
check an see if they forgot to put oil in this thing before they get out
here!" I thought. I knew that if they got to it before me, they would
try to cover it up.
Just as I was checking the dipstick, my wife and one of the technicians
came out. They had forgot to put the oil in the car! I calmly told him
and showed him the dipstick. He immediately took it from me and started
to get defensive. I guess he had to check for himself. It was still bone
dry. By this time we had all the service technicians,and the manager out
at the car. At first they tried to make some sort of excuse. But, I
think they realized that they just sounded stupid. So they just shut up.
Then I jumpped in for the kill. "How would you have known that this car
took an extra quart of oil, if you never even put any in it?" I said
calmly. The manager looked at me and said "What?" I replied "You sold us
an extra quart." "We've always brought our car here for oil changes and
this is the first time you have ever done that." "What are you trying to
pull here?" The manager looked suprised and explaned that that should
not have happened. She also apologized and offered to refund our money
along with a coupon for our next oil change for free. I thanked her
kindly and said "Can we please have our oil now, we would like to get
home." The technicians were still checking the dip stick, hoping that as
if by some miricle, oil would appear on it. Proving that I was indeed
wrong after all and that thay would all still have jobs in the morning.
The manager barked the command and they mozied back to the garage. Only
one returned to fill it up. I watched as he put 4 quarts into the car. I
just shook my head and laughed quietly to myself. - Ian
-- Ian Spencer <www.sunbeamalpine.org> '61 Harrington Alpine B9104782 OD HRO '62 Harrington Le Mans BH9115930 OD LRX
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