All day long I waited to get a call about my car.
I decided that I wasn’t going to call because in all of the times I’ve brought my car in they have never once called me; I’ve always had to call them.
So today I said screw it and decided that I wouldn’t call. My thinking was that these are people I’m paying to provide me a service not some chick I’m trying to date, so they could quit fucking dodging me and dial my damn number.
And so they did.
Eventually.
So, nearly $600 later ($596.65 to be exact), I got my car back, all 30,000 miles serviced and with new brakes and no clicking noise.
Of course, the work isn’t actually done. There are some remaining issues that need to be fixed, but the part won’t be in for a week. The remaining issues aren’t serious enough to cause any immediate problems, so I’m able to drive the car until the part arrives, at which point I have to bring it back in (though this time I’ll get a loaner).
I was waiting on another phone call today as well, this time from the rental office here. Now that I’m no longer a homeowner, I have to sign a month-to-month lease and pay rent.
On the 27th of June, people representing the new ownership were at the office in the evening to assist with this process. I know this because I got a letter telling me that people would be there. One problem, though: I got the letter on the 28th.
So yesterday, being my first opportunity to do so, I walked down to the office expecting to sign a lease and pay the July rent (plus prorated June rent for two days – way to grab every penny, ass clowns). The question I was presented with was, “Did you fill out an application?” I said that I wasn’t aware that I had to.
The women then proceeded to get me an application, which I couldn’t fill out there because there was some info I had to check on. I came home, filled it out, brought it back, and was told that I had to wait to sign a lease because they needed to run a background check on me.
I’ve lived her for a year and a half without incident: what more do they need to know?
Naturally they had some problems with their background-checking system, so they said they would call me back today.
Apparently there’s some version of that book The Rules written for people in the service industry which tells them that if they don’t return calls they will become service industry creatures unlike any others.
Seriously, if you play hard to get I’m just going to say “fuck it.”
It’s not going to make me want you more.
In any case, I made no effort to reach out to them all day, but I did write them a note explaining that I will not be available until the 9th, and enclosed a check in the amount I was told would be due and left it in the rent drop box. After all, even though they’re the ones causing the delay, I could easily see them blaming me for not paying my rent in a timely enough fashion and charging me extra.
Up until I got the call about my car, today was largely uneventful. I woke up late, as I was extremely tired last night.
As you can see if you go over to Brian’s blog, there were two fires early yesterday morning here in Leesburg. I live near a major highway, so for a period of about an hour it was non-stop sirens going by, which isn’t especially conducive to sleep.
I had to get up early anyway to bring my car in, so losing that hour of sleep was a pain.
About an hour after I got to sleep, and fifteen minutes before I planned to get up, I was awoken by what sounded like – and was – a helicopter.
I would have gone back to bed after I got home from the shop, but I decided to deal with the rent thing first, and then Kathleen called and wanted to have lunch.
We had a very quick lunch at Subway, as she had all manner of things to do and places to be.
In any case, very tired Jon slept in until a bit before 10, got up for about a half an hour, then called it a day and went back to bed until noon.
Once I got up the second time I really didn’t do much beyond showering until I got the call about my car.
After I picked my car up I stopped at Super Target to pick up something for dinner, then came home, made it, watched some TV, and wrote and posted this.
And that brings us up to date.
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