[stomachmonkey]

Taking my DD in tomorrow to get the hail damage fixed. Will take a week. Inspection is due end of month and it needs an oil change so figured let me take are of it today. Run it to a small place around the corner from the office that I've used for inspections before. They are "easy" on inspections.

Guy says an hour so I leave my number and tell him "call me when you're done". 3 hours later no call so I run back over.

Oil change is done but not inspection, "10 minutes" he says so I cop a squat in the waiting room.

It's 105 out today and the waiting room smells like a gut wrenching combination of man stench and hot grease.

Half hour later he calls me to the counter, as I walk up he drops the wiper blades.

"what's this"?

Well you need blades, can't pass you without them?

"you should have called me".

Well you needed them to pass and I really did not look that hard for anything else.

"you should have called me, im allowed a grace period to fix no pass issues without being recharged for the inspection. You replaced the entire assembly for $25 when the blades are only $10.".

Well it's all I had.

"you should have called me".

I'll charge you $10.

"and what's that? Air? $35?".

Oh yeah, your air filter was dirty, it was a ***** to replace, it'll run better now and get better mileage, here's your old one

"great, so it's free then?".

Huh? no.

"you shoulda called me, you weren't authorized to repair it".

You want me to put the old one back?

"sure, go ahead".

How about I just give it to you at my cost, $11?

"fine, you do realize I'm never coming back here ever again".

Yeah.