Had 2 people in this week that put a dark cloud on decent week. Guy brought his silver vehicle in and claimed he hit a racoon. He in fact did not. All animal hits leave a calling card, hair, poop, blood, saliva, steaks, etc. Also the dents tend to be different. He did hit a parking curb on the ri…

Docnick, you are an extremely rational person when it comes to cars. Maybe the people you mention above area all about passion. Most people are in between. All we can do is offer advice if asked for it and let other adults make their own decisions with their priorities. But you can laugh at them…

Good salesmanhip on the part of the dealer moving his inventory plays a big part in it as well. Having said that, I’ve advised numerous friends and relatives with happy results. One IT expert, a 5’ 1" petite blonde loved fast cars and had the money to pay for it. She wanted domestic, but not a Corv…

Insurance fraud is a national pastime…You are the first line of defense…

Thanks for sharing “meaneyedcatz”… My son in retail has similar stories dealing with a small part of the public. Even though it is just a small part, it can ruin an otherwise good day when you actually felt you provided a worthwhile service that was appreciated. In the long run, you will be the succ…

I know what you mean. Minivan drives up with a flat tire. Guy gets out, walks into the shop to a tech working under a hood, asks him to change his tire or fix his flat one, whichever is faster. Tech says “See the man in the office and he’ll help you right away.” He asks me the same thing, I tell h…

“My wife is a retired teacher and she has some real zingers”. I’m a retired college professor and I also have some real zingers. I think my favorite was in trying to get a computer hardware and architecture class to design a circuit that could perform the binary addition tables (0 + 0 = 0, 0 + 1…

Any person operating or working in a shop runs into people like that all of the time and it’s extremely frustrating. About all you can do is try to cover your tail end as best as possible because when it comes to people and their cars the sky is the limit on lying or just being utterly ridiculous ab…

There used to be a story every month in Popular Science called “Tales from the Model Garage”. This series of stories began sometime in the 1920s and ran until 1970. One of the customers of the Model Garage was a real cheapskate named Silas Barnstable. He was always trying to get something for not…

Everyone runs into those people where they work because, unfortunately they appear to be multiplying. While we’re all taught there is a line and to wait our turn, I’d suggest you may be losing out on a potentially lucrative revenue opportunity if you just blow off these people. We run into them in …

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meaneyedcatz February 6, 2012, 6:33am 10

Hind sight is always 20/20. I bet every person on this site wishes they would have written down stories like this, funny, sad, thought provoking, etc., and tried to publish them. My wife is a retired teacher and she has some real zingers.

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