Facebook is a beautiful tool. It’s allowed your favorite disgruntled counter clerk to interact with some of the other disgruntled workers of the automotive trade, including dealership techs, service advisors, mechanics, and delivery drivers. And across the board, we see the same thing week after week: situations that make us question humanity and things that will only end in either laughter or the emergency room.
From Mechanic Memes, this particular gem hit my wall.
You don’t get much more random than that, do you, folks? The biggest struggle in all of what went on that afternoon (besides catching a hamster in the dash of what I think is a Fusion without getting bit) would be maintaining a straight face while dealing with the customer. I’m sure little Timmy just wants his hamster safe in it’s cage where it belongs, and for that, at least, I feel for the kid and I hope the hamster reappears unharmed. The evil side of me, however, has 1100 pages of Richard Gere jokes lined up and waiting. The second I walked away from the counter to get a mechanic on that, I would’ve been snickering like an idiot. Can you imagine the writeup for the finished actions?
1. Caught hamster, returned to owner.
2. Cleaned “sprinkles” out of HVAC system.
(Mechanic Meme’s picture courtesy of Keaton Gregory)
Wonder where the little guy got the wood shavings?
What’s the flat rate on that job?
As i stated on facebook earlier. “Jesus Chriaahh”
had a somewhat similar situation at work—lady kept getting a mouse in her miata—-“well,why don’t you get a cat,or put some d-con out for it”?(says i)—-“i don’t want to harm it,i just don’t want it in my car”—–finally figuired out the little bugger was working his way into the interior by squirming between the top and the body where they meet at the rear of the doorglass,at the bottom(this is where the drains for the top are)—made a filler piece for her to put in when parked–never heard back,so i’m assuming stuart found some place else to crash….
once had a customer complaining of no windshield washer. i removed a blue tinted mouse carcass from the washer bottle. what a stink.
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