In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
May we both have good luck today.
You win your Mahjong game, and I get my car back.
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I hope you got your car back SIX because once again my luck was terrible at mah jong.
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Back from mah jong and walk. And as I said to SIX, no luck today.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
May we both have good luck today.
You win your Mahjong game, and I get my car back.
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I hope you got your car back SIX because once again my luck was terrible at mah jong.
It seems that lady luck was not with us today.
There's still 32 minutes of hope that the car gets done before he was calling it quits tonight, but that isn't going to help me because I'm not going to make it there on time to pick it up tonight if he finishes it.
He told me he's been working on it all day. I don't believe him. He's lied about everything up until this point.
I'm wondering if my car is even there anymore. I'm wondering if it is, are my hand tools that I didn't take out of the trunk still there. I'm wondering if he broke my fuel line and is too cowardly to tell me that he broke it.
If I don't get my car back tomorrow I'm going to have a stroke.
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Work in the shed is almost done. But right now there's nothing more I can do until I get my car back. I need to pick up six 2x6 boards of value wood to add to the tops between the studs before I can paint them, and since two of them are going to have to be installed while I'm sitting on the top shelf I gave two coats of paint to tonight, I'm not putting the 3rd and final coat on both shelves and the fronts of the shelves until that's done.
I can, however, finally put up the insulation on the wall next to the porch tomorrow though.
I think I'll start sanding the walls in the porch too and maybe get the primer up there tomorrow too.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
May we both have good luck today.
You win your Mahjong game, and I get my car back.
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I hope you got your car back SIX because once again my luck was terrible at mah jong.
It seems that lady luck was not with us today.
There's still 32 minutes of hope that the car gets done before he was calling it quits tonight, but that isn't going to help me because I'm not going to make it there on time to pick it up tonight if he finishes it.
He told me he's been working on it all day. I don't believe him. He's lied about everything up until this point.
I'm wondering if my car is even there anymore. I'm wondering if it is, are my hand tools that I didn't take out of the trunk still there. I'm wondering if he broke my fuel line and is too cowardly to tell me that he broke it.
If I don't get my car back tomorrow I'm going to have a stroke.
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Oh, no SIX. I am so sorry to hear that.
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Another early day for me. Need to find some sunglasses at a decent price before I head to an eye doctor appointment. They didn't use eye drops on me the last time I was in which was 2 years ago, so I figure they will tomorrow. And the receptionist that I spoke to reminded me to do it. So, yeah. Not fun but necessary. Also want to get a bill paid and some grocery shopping done while I can still see before they do that to me.
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Quote:Is there anything you can do besides rant at him over the phone?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
May we both have good luck today.
You win your Mahjong game, and I get my car back.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
I hope you got your car back SIX because once again my luck was terrible at mah jong.
It seems that lady luck was not with us today.
There's still 32 minutes of hope that the car gets done before he was calling it quits tonight, but that isn't going to help me because I'm not going to make it there on time to pick it up tonight if he finishes it.
He told me he's been working on it all day. I don't believe him. He's lied about everything up until this point.
I'm wondering if my car is even there anymore. I'm wondering if it is, are my hand tools that I didn't take out of the trunk still there. I'm wondering if he broke my fuel line and is too cowardly to tell me that he broke it.
If I don't get my car back tomorrow I'm going to have a stroke.
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What IS his problem, anyway?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Is there anything you can do besides rant at him over the phone?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
May we both have good luck today.
You win your Mahjong game, and I get my car back.
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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
I hope you got your car back SIX because once again my luck was terrible at mah jong.
It seems that lady luck was not with us today.
There's still 32 minutes of hope that the car gets done before he was calling it quits tonight, but that isn't going to help me because I'm not going to make it there on time to pick it up tonight if he finishes it.
He told me he's been working on it all day. I don't believe him. He's lied about everything up until this point.
I'm wondering if my car is even there anymore. I'm wondering if it is, are my hand tools that I didn't take out of the trunk still there. I'm wondering if he broke my fuel line and is too cowardly to tell me that he broke it.
If I don't get my car back tomorrow I'm going to have a stroke.
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I could walk up there and rant to him in person. But I'm not sure a 4 mile round trip is a productive use of my time, other than to verify that my car actually is still up on the rack and that all my tools are in the trunk still.
I doubt very much that I could get the city involved somehow, and I also doubt that he would care about me starting a BBB case on his shop.
Last Friday he finally got my car on the rack after an entire week. He made it sound like it was possible I'd have my car late Friday night, so I was really pissed when it wasn't finished on Monday. And that's how it's gone all week. I start the day off positive thinking I'm going to get my car back today and then by around 3:30 I start getting really pissed off that I still haven't heard from him even though I carry that damn phone from room to room to shed to room to garage to room to shed to garage whenever I'm making any moves and it never rings.
This will be the third weekend in a row where my friend has to come out of state to pick me up to help him on his house that is in the complete opposite direction on the expressway if I dont' get it back today, and I'm pretty sure I'm not getting it back today.
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What IS his problem, anyway?
Time management is probably the biggest. Lying to your customers and not being sharp enough to remember the lies is a close second.
At this point I'm going to put lack of skills on the list. If he really was working on my car all day long yesterday and he was working until 7 or 8PM, there's no reason he shouldn't have been able to get the brake lines installed.
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Back from my eye doctor and all is well with my eyes. Lens in my glasses don't need an upgrade which is good. But flip side she said I do need computer glasses.
Also my area got rain today and it happened while I was in with the eye doctor. 
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I got my car back!
Going to take it easy tomorrow while driving to my friend's place.
Ran a few errands that needed to be be run and everything seems good so far.
At this point I hope he actually was doing work on other cars and wasn't working on mine for 3 days straight, because he charged me almost 20 bucks less than what the final quote was. I'm not sure how he stays in business at those rates. Maybe he just takes the bad jobs with the good ones and they even out in his favor or something.
I'm still not happy it took two weeks, but he says he's going to do some inquiries and see what he can do about fittings and the nylon tube to fix the fuel line too and give me a quote if he can do it. He showed me a picture of what it looks like and it's pretty terrifying.
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