Nice day, car woes, not mine

Thank you everyone for great wishes and I had a good day of greeting, cards, posts, messages, calls, a lot of attention.

Including a call from Gary wishing me a happy, and reporting on Mike the Artist Contractor whose ancient van broke down finally at the end of the street. Full court press of neighbors pushed it home. On ice.

Then a call from Mike the AC, wishing me, and reporting on the same thing! He didn't say anything about my car having left so recently now that he needs another ASAP, and I was nice and didn't either.

Amazing the life that pours in on me while I'm sitting peacefully on the sofa reading about one of Henry Eight's six wives. And playing games on the advent calendar.

Vital report: 8" of snow fell here. 

I'm hoping to get a birthday service gift Wednesday, when handsome Son is off work -- errands. To be exact, food to the food pantry, then packages to the PO. Then home for cake and tea. 

My life is just one giddy whirl of frivolity and pleasure. Level One.

Happy day everyone, frivol, and dance in the kitchen.

 

Sez Ted and Big Ursy, too 

Car world blues

 So I got the car in to the dealership for the fuel pump replacement recall.  They set up a ride home with a very nice woman Lyft driver, really interesting person, a writer when she's not a driver. So far so good.

At home peacefully reading various library books including this 

It's a bit dry, what with chemistry, but the history of cooking tools is interesting. She tends to get into list mode a bit. 

By 3:30 I hadn't heard from the dealership. I waited till late afternoon because they'd said it was a day-long job. But I was concerned in case I ended up driving after dark.

Called and found they couldn't do the work because they couldn't remove the panel to access the fuel pump. They needed to break the panel. And they planned to charge me for the part. 

Yes, didn't sound right to me either. And they said a week to get it.  I made unhappy noises about both things. So they're getting the part overnighted, will do the work tomorrow.

Soooo I called the general manager and he agreed it didn't sound right, he'd be right on it.   A few minutes later the service director gets back to say he's all over it, part ordered, he'll check with me Tuesday morning.  He sounded totally panic stricken.

So we'll see if they still try to charge me when I see them. If so, I'll definitely do a call the manager scene. I can't believe they can ask me to pay for what they broke. If they do, I'll definitely bust them online and here. 

Today started out well and then it didn't.

Happy day everyone, this too shall pass. Though I've had better days.