November 23, 2012

November 23, 2012

Bill left at 6:30 this morning to take the Honda to Fort Collins. The locking mechanism on the driver’s side was making strange noises.  At first it sounded as if it had the croup.  It continued to get worse, finally sounding like a blast from a machine gun.

When he first drove up a service writer came out and Bill told him the problem with the lock.  Among other things on the cost of the repair was a $52 diagnostic fee.  Bill said to give him the $52 dollars because he had diagnosed it for them.  There was also a $25 charge for shop material...nuts, bolts, towels, things like that.  Bill said when he was in business he didn’t treat his customers that way.

The long and short of it was when Bill got the bill, neither of those things were on it.  I guess they didn’t want to take on a crabby old man so early in the morning.

Today was Black Friday, but Michelle didn’t go anywhere until after lunch.  We needed to go to Lowe’s and Walmart.  Neither of them were terribly busy by that time of day.  We really didn’t want to put our lives in jeopardy by going earlier.

Bill took me to Meredith and Dwaine’s in the middle of the afternoon.  It gave me some extra visiting time with them.  He came back later for “left overs.”  That’s the best thing about Thanksgiving dinner!