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Praise da' Lord, away football game this weekend, half day Saturday! Half day! No towing! Dispatch only! Let the rookies do the towing, I'm free, kick back and just chill......
Yeah.... about that......
And This was the FIRST Call of the Day!
-*RING*
Me -Friendly Neighborhood Towing, Argabarga speaking
Her -Yes, are you a primary care site?
Me -Excuse me?
Her -Uhm..... are you primary care?
Me -I don't understand what you're asking
Her -Your clinic, are you primary care?
Me -This isn't a clinic, this is a towing company
Her -Oh, *click*
Worth noting, the last line was total deadpan, a la' Stephen Wright, no inflection whatsoever. No "oops, I misdailed! Sorry!" or "Whoops, I feel really stupid now" vibe to it, just a total "oh, well, I guess the towing company isn't a doctor's office after all" kind of air about it...... I mean, I'm game for anything, but you probably don't want me trying to fix YOU, your car I can handle.
Money Can be Exchanged for Goods and Services, Goods and Services are not Available Without Money
Lady -Yes, I locked my keys in my car, is there anyway you could like, break back into it for me?
Me -Yes, we offer lock out services, that would be $45
Lady -Forty five bucks?!
Me -Yes, unless you have a motor club, otherwise, it's the cash rate of...
Lady -Well, I DON'T HAVE A MOTOR CLUB!
Me -Then it would be a $45 service
Lady -Well, *giggle* *giggle* I'm not paying $45 to get my car unlocked!
Me -Okay, then I can't help you, really.
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Lady -You mean, there isn't any way to, just get me back in, for free?
Me -Nope, it takes specialized tools to get back into a car that you're locked out of, that's why it costs $45 to do it. We have to send a truck out and treat it like a roadside service
Lady -Oh, okay, bye *Click*
You want back in for free? Find a rock, those are free and plentiful last I checked.
You Had 15 Minutes to Move Your Car, You Now Have 15 Minutes to Move Your Cube
Lady comes in and comes up to the counter and asks "Where's my stuff?" Not a terribly informative question, so I of course have no option but to look like a total dope and say "What stuff?'
"The stuff that was in my car, all my important stuff was in there!" she says. Okay, common issue when a car comes in for extended repair/impound, sometimes valuables get taken with it, because lots of folks for some reason think their car is the perfect place to leave things like their wallet and/or purse unattended, but that's a whole nother' rant. So we always have people coming by to get belongings out of cars, the problem is, we can't find the one she's talking about. "It's a blue VW" she says, but there's no VW to be had around here. Closest one we have is the wrong model, color and far too new, this was a 94' it looks like.....
It's not out front, it's not on the side parking lot for service, it's not in the back with the wrecks/bodyshop cars and it's not in the impound lot, even the weedy overgrown part where stuff has been sitting and quietly rusting for almost a year now (when a car with out-of-state plates gets abandoned, it can take a long time to get a clear title to dispose of it, durn the glacial pace of the DMV!)
So, after we can't find it after a quick visual check of the lots, we ask if she's certain we even had it to start with since we aren't the only tow company in town. Oh yes she says, it came in here as a wreck a while ago, and she knows we have it because her insurance company totaled the car and she mailed us the title for it two months ago... so we could get rid of it.
*record needle scratch*
Wait, it was a wrecked car, and you mailed us the title........ TWO MONTHS ago?
Uh oh...... that's not good.
See, earlier this week, Goober, the guy who runs the local junkyard came by the lot and took with him an odd assortment of wrecked or long abandoned cars we had obtained titles for and flagged as "salvage" off to be scraped and re purposed, and one of them was this lady's VW. Since she sent in the title, over 30 days back, and never mentioned to us in the interim needing to get anything out of the car, we'd assumed that meant she didn't want it, or anything IN it, anymore. An assumption that seemed both logical and correct since that was by her own admission two months ago. So, as is proceedure, the car was loaded wholesale on a flatbed semi and went down the road, with whatever was still in it, well, in it....
She wasn't too happy to learn her car and whatever "important stuff" contained therein was now probably cube-shaped and halfway to China
, but I did give her the Towing Manager's number and told her to cal him Monday, he can deal with this mess.
I kinda sympathize, but seriously lady, you had TWO MONTHS to just make a simple phone call, stop by, write a letter, send up a smoke signal or SOMETHING to tell us not to junk that car just yet.... instead you assumed we'd just hold it for you forever... or until you were good and ready to come in....
And now, the only way you'll ever see it again is if you go down to Wal Mart and buy yourself a brand new waffle iron for Christmas, part of your VW MAY be in there by then .......
I am so outta here.......... WEEKEND HERE I COME!
Yeah.... about that......
And This was the FIRST Call of the Day!
-*RING*
Me -Friendly Neighborhood Towing, Argabarga speaking
Her -Yes, are you a primary care site?
Me -Excuse me?
Her -Uhm..... are you primary care?
Me -I don't understand what you're asking
Her -Your clinic, are you primary care?
Me -This isn't a clinic, this is a towing company
Her -Oh, *click*
Worth noting, the last line was total deadpan, a la' Stephen Wright, no inflection whatsoever. No "oops, I misdailed! Sorry!" or "Whoops, I feel really stupid now" vibe to it, just a total "oh, well, I guess the towing company isn't a doctor's office after all" kind of air about it...... I mean, I'm game for anything, but you probably don't want me trying to fix YOU, your car I can handle.
Money Can be Exchanged for Goods and Services, Goods and Services are not Available Without Money
Lady -Yes, I locked my keys in my car, is there anyway you could like, break back into it for me?
Me -Yes, we offer lock out services, that would be $45
Lady -Forty five bucks?!
Me -Yes, unless you have a motor club, otherwise, it's the cash rate of...
Lady -Well, I DON'T HAVE A MOTOR CLUB!
Me -Then it would be a $45 service
Lady -Well, *giggle* *giggle* I'm not paying $45 to get my car unlocked!
Me -Okay, then I can't help you, really.
...
...
...
Lady -You mean, there isn't any way to, just get me back in, for free?
Me -Nope, it takes specialized tools to get back into a car that you're locked out of, that's why it costs $45 to do it. We have to send a truck out and treat it like a roadside service
Lady -Oh, okay, bye *Click*
You want back in for free? Find a rock, those are free and plentiful last I checked.
You Had 15 Minutes to Move Your Car, You Now Have 15 Minutes to Move Your Cube
Lady comes in and comes up to the counter and asks "Where's my stuff?" Not a terribly informative question, so I of course have no option but to look like a total dope and say "What stuff?'
"The stuff that was in my car, all my important stuff was in there!" she says. Okay, common issue when a car comes in for extended repair/impound, sometimes valuables get taken with it, because lots of folks for some reason think their car is the perfect place to leave things like their wallet and/or purse unattended, but that's a whole nother' rant. So we always have people coming by to get belongings out of cars, the problem is, we can't find the one she's talking about. "It's a blue VW" she says, but there's no VW to be had around here. Closest one we have is the wrong model, color and far too new, this was a 94' it looks like.....
It's not out front, it's not on the side parking lot for service, it's not in the back with the wrecks/bodyshop cars and it's not in the impound lot, even the weedy overgrown part where stuff has been sitting and quietly rusting for almost a year now (when a car with out-of-state plates gets abandoned, it can take a long time to get a clear title to dispose of it, durn the glacial pace of the DMV!)
So, after we can't find it after a quick visual check of the lots, we ask if she's certain we even had it to start with since we aren't the only tow company in town. Oh yes she says, it came in here as a wreck a while ago, and she knows we have it because her insurance company totaled the car and she mailed us the title for it two months ago... so we could get rid of it.
*record needle scratch*
Wait, it was a wrecked car, and you mailed us the title........ TWO MONTHS ago?
Uh oh...... that's not good.
See, earlier this week, Goober, the guy who runs the local junkyard came by the lot and took with him an odd assortment of wrecked or long abandoned cars we had obtained titles for and flagged as "salvage" off to be scraped and re purposed, and one of them was this lady's VW. Since she sent in the title, over 30 days back, and never mentioned to us in the interim needing to get anything out of the car, we'd assumed that meant she didn't want it, or anything IN it, anymore. An assumption that seemed both logical and correct since that was by her own admission two months ago. So, as is proceedure, the car was loaded wholesale on a flatbed semi and went down the road, with whatever was still in it, well, in it....
She wasn't too happy to learn her car and whatever "important stuff" contained therein was now probably cube-shaped and halfway to China
, but I did give her the Towing Manager's number and told her to cal him Monday, he can deal with this mess. I kinda sympathize, but seriously lady, you had TWO MONTHS to just make a simple phone call, stop by, write a letter, send up a smoke signal or SOMETHING to tell us not to junk that car just yet.... instead you assumed we'd just hold it for you forever... or until you were good and ready to come in....
And now, the only way you'll ever see it again is if you go down to Wal Mart and buy yourself a brand new waffle iron for Christmas, part of your VW MAY be in there by then .......
I am so outta here.......... WEEKEND HERE I COME!
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