General Discussion & Chat: Stop and visit, talk all you want. pt 14, 1 by terryr

terryr wrote:
Oh Mau, I hate shopping at Wallyworld, let alone letting them change the oil in my car. I bought a battery from them once. 6 yr. battery I believe it was. Yea right. I was lucky if it lasted 2. We have an Oil Wizard here in town. They charge the same as the dealership does, unless you get "full service". Which amounts to no more than them vacuuming the front floor of the car. I've also discovered that the Motorcraft oil works really good in my car. I get better gas mileage out it use it, and only Ford dealerships use it. Sorry you had such trouble with them. 8" in Bull Shoals?? Woohoo!! I know some people down there that are loving this then! Did I tell you that the family that owns the boat dock is from up here? About 45 miles away even! It's such a small world. LOL

Teresa and family went to FL over Christmas, so she had to tell me about all the mishaps and plain dumb people she had to deal with. For instance, they rented a car. In IL. Central time. 5pm and it was a 24 hour rental. FL is Eastern time. So she took it back, got lost and had them on the phone directing her, so she was about 20 minutes late. They were going to charge her for another day. She argued with them. They said that it really didn't matter, since she was more than 20 min. late, she was 1 hour and 20 min. late. She went round and round with them about the time difference and how she had rented it for 24 hours, yet they were going to charge her for a full day for the extra hour she lost entering into Eastern time. Finally she told them they would lose her business, and guess what? It finally dawned on them that she had had the car for only 24 hours and 20 minutes. Not the 25 hours and 20 minutes they kept telling her. Funny thing was that the manager said that he'd "never heard of such a thing"! The manager doesn't know that we have different time zones in the US? And the van they also rented? 2000 miles on it, they drove about 2 hours, probably not quite, and the tire went flat on a back road. Late Sat. afternoon. They drove all the way to FL on the doughnut. Because remember, they could only use who the car company said. Nobody's opened on Sun.

Well, John goes from me not being ready, to practically sticking the camera up my nose. He started off so far back, you couldn't see my hair. sigh. So here's me, camera almost up my nose, with my new hair color...

Edited for spelling error...

This message was edited Feb 2, 2008 2:39 PM