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Originally Posted by oldE
I mentioned in another thread there is more to a purchase than the bottom line. When you are dealing with friends, you are perhaps wiling to acknowledge this is their living and you would like them to be around to look after you in the future. Maybe it is a rural thing, stemming out of a sense of community.
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There is a whole lot of truth in the above.
The independent mechanic I have used for over 20 years charges more for his work, but he is honest and impeccable.
I was on a business trip many years ago. My wife called and said she had broken down on the beltway on her way home from work and needed our AAA number. This was early in our marriage and she was driving a 1986 Ford Ranger. We also had two infants at home. It was also raining.
I gave it to her and then called Bill.
Bill dropped what he was doing and jumped in his tow truck to go get my wife, about a 40 mile round trip. He got the Ranger back to his shop and lent my wife his car so she could get home to the kids. We lived about 20 miles away, south.
He didn't charge us a thing.