.:Thursday, September 13, 2007:.
Stupid Car People
| The dealership has had my car for 2 days now without so much as a phone call to me about anything. I dropped it off to them informing them that for the THIRD time, it was doing that whole sputtering thing whenever I started it up and acting like it was going to die. The previous TWO times that I took it in, they told me it needed an electrical update of some sort. The first time I bought that excuse even though I was frustrated with them not doing something that they clearly knew all of these cars needed BEFORE sending it home with me. The second time they gave me that spill, not so much. This time, it was MUCH worse when I took it in. It would do that half way down our street. On top of this, for the third time, I asked them to please fix the driver side door. It wouldn't stay open and if my hands were full I had to use my foot to keep it open while getting out of the car. Neither time did they get that fixed. NOW, there is also a knocking noise over the right rear wheel when brake pressure is applied. DOUBLE ARGH!!!! So, I picked up the phone and called them to get an update on my car this afternoon. I was informed that they were waiting on a part for the door as apparently the hinge was broken and it should be ready this afternoon. GREAT!!! The door is apparently getting fixed finally. Then I asked about the sputtering. "Well, it needed an electronic update," he said. I responded with, "just like the last two times then? Was it not done correctly those times or are there numerous updates that this car needs that I am completely oblivious to?" He stuttered a bit and then stated, "you told me that you were using mid grade fuel, you need to be using 87 octane fuel. This is what is causing the sputtering." "Oh, so it's not an electronic upgrade then? Why didn't anyone tell me about this octane issue before?", I asked. He then proceeds to say, "I'm not sure why no one told you before." Uh huh. If it was the gas that I was using, wouldn't it do this consistently then? Wouldn't it happen more times than not when I start my car? Something about this just doesn't seem right. But what do I know? OOH, but that isn't the BEST part of it! The knocking over the right rear wheel. I ask him about that and what the problem was. "Well," he says, "I had SEVEN different technicians and the specialist drive it and no one could hear any kind of noise." "Really," I question. "So, did you look at that area, the braking system or anything to see if you might be able to visually spot something wrong," I ask. His only response was, "we just couldn't hear anything and if we can't hear it, we can't fix it." What a crock! First of all, I don't believe for a second that they drove a total of eight times and it never did what it does to me 95% of the time! And I'm CERTAIN that the other 5% of the time, I'm seriously just not listening for it anymore. And just exactly how is it that you argue with them about it? I mean, I'm not a mechanic after all! So, he calls me back just now to tell me that my car is ready. Ready for the biggest kicker of them all? Yeah, I asked if they bothered to try checking the noise out one more time and you want to know what he told me? "Well, we would, but your car is pretty close to out of gas, but if you would like to take one of the techs out with you for a spin so that you can show them what the noise is, then we can get it fixed!" First, I'm going to "show" them something that is "heard"? Did I hear this correctly. Secondly, you've driven it eight times, using a quarter of a tank of gas that was in there and NOW you can't drive across the parking lot to the gas station that you are contracted with for your fuel and drop even $5 in there to give it one more whirl? You've got to be kidding me! My car gets on average 25 mpg in the city and is a 16 gallon tank. That means they did a lot of driving and it would have been a lot of IN TOWN driving so that they could hear the braking noise correct? I mean after all, if they got on the highway (which averages around 32 mpg), that really wouldn't do them much good. So, they used at least 100 miles worth of gas "testing" it supposedly? WOW! I must say, I'm super impressed with their thoroughness! They must be oh so proud of themselves and all of their hard work! No, I'm not the least bit frustrated right now. Don't ask about the oven repair guy that I have heard nothing from yet today! Just ONE question here.......exactly how many good deeds is it that I need to do in order to get our karma deficit paid off? |
Kolby has a New
| favorite in the house.........and it's not me. Seems that Jeff is his new first choice for most things. Particularly in choosing who gets him to school. If Jeff is awake before we leave, Kolby inevitably asks "why can't Jeff just take me to school mom?" While it may hurt my feelings just a tad bit, I'm so happy that they have bonded so much and that Kolby thinks as highly of him as he does. Did I mention that it is Campfire day? I think I forgot that on the "over my head" blog. Campfire every Thursday. Yep, yep, with that, we have something almost every day of the week. What can we find to fill Wednesdays? *laughs hysterically* Just wait until soccer starts for Kolby and track starts for Zoe after Christmas break! Not sure when we will have time to sleep at that point! Off to make my second machiatto now since I don't have to wait until after dropping off Kolby at school! YAY...I could get use to this! Tehehehe |
I'm all for Dick
| There's just something sooo very disturbing about hearing that come out of your daughter's mouth.........even if it is in reference to Evel Dick on Big Brother 8. One of mine and Zoe's favorite activities before she leaves for school every morning is me spoiling the show for her! Muwahahaha. See, I keep up with the forums and sometimes the live feeds. So, I know most everything that is going to happen days before it airs on TV. This morning, I couldn't wait to find out who had won the second part of a three party Head of Household (HOH) competition. Zach won the first round, so the second one was only being played by Dick Donato and his ever so snotty daughter, Danielle Donato. This competition determined who would play against Zach in the 3rd round to win the final HOH of the season. The final HOH also solely determines which of the final three houseguests will be evicted from the house and sent to the sequester house until the finale next Tuesday when they will determine the final winner. This season has sucked horribly. I've loved every other season....okay, so last season took a lot of warming up for me cause I didn't like the idea of an all stars game where they brought back lots of previous season guests that I really didn't like...but in the end, I loved that one too thanks to Will and Boogie! This season though, they are filled with silly, rude, fake people that were hand picked rather than having random everyday people in the house. I mean, come on, one of the houseguests was nanny to Vanna White's children, another was a talent scout, one was a pro football player (even if it was in the European leaque), one is a famous bartender who brought along his estranged daughter and on and on...you get the idea. And to top it all off, the majority of them were a complete bore! Danielle though, is the ONLY person that I would throw a rip roaring fit if she won. I just don't care for that girl at all. Anywho, I couldn't wait to tell Zoe that Dick won the second part. It is highly doubtful that he has any chance of beating Zach in the final competition tonight. Which means that Zach will win the final HOH and will FINALLY send Danielle packing if he has ANY brain cells left at all! WAHOO!!! Now I can't wait for Jeff to wake up so that I can fill him in too! He's going to be super stoked. He just loves Dick! Muwahahahha Told you that I would be back today.....I plan on boring you all to tears since I am stuck sitting around the house all day! Muwahahaha XOXOXO |
In Over My Head?
| Hehehe. In absolutely NO particular order b/c I love random. 1. New CASA volunteer, completing 30 hours of training this month AND homework every week. 2. Agreed to work in the workroom for the PTO for two hours every Tuesday and Friday morning....assuming at the time of agreement that I had NOT been chosen for Kolby's class room mother. 3. Informed yesterday that I WAS in fact chosen to be the room mother for his class. Thankfully, she chose TWO of us for that job! 4. Husband, 2 kids and 5 dogs (2 of which require as much attention as a small child) 5. Girl Scouts every Tuesday evening. 6. Martial Arts every Monday and Friday evening. 7. Housework. Thank goodness Zoe is assigned to some of that in order to receive her allowance every week. 8. Laundry.....the never ending piles of laundry. YAY! not 9. A brand new car that is in the shop on average, once a month thus far. 10. THREE personal promises to myself A)to get my scrapbooking out and caught up.....and staying caught up. This will take FOREVER to get caught up! B)to start a new cross stitching pattern...it's so relaxing C)to start walking again. 2 miles a day...which means having to wake up at 5am. It's just too hot any time after that and by the evening hours I'm just too tired. 11. 3 more pattern contests to go....I won't make the one this month due to CASA training though. 12. I MUST have a garage sale the first or second weekend of October. 13. Organizing a golf tourney that will take place sometime in late spring/early summer. 14. Organizing another AIDS fundraiser for the last weekend of November. 15. Oh and the combination of socials/volunteering and such for both the officers spouses club and the wives of all the pilots club .... there really should be a name for that...or maybe there is and I just don't know it yet! Muwahahaha 16. I'm sure there's more, but I'm stopping there. I'm sure that everyone gets the idea. Now, I know, that my life is no different than anyone else's. We are all super busy in our lives, but I just realized last night that I MADE mine this busy intentionally. How incredibly silly am I? *shakes head* Anywho, time to go wake up Kolby to get ready for school and do his chores. Zoe is just about ready to walk out the door to catch the bus. You'll likely hear more from me as I'm sitting here for the day waiting for the repair man to come fix our oven! WAHOO! |