my $1500 oil change/bytiff
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LOL!! Tiff – your stories are so funny! I very much appreciate your stories Tiff cos when I’m in the middle of an OCD freakout I always wonder how Tiffany would write about this if she were going thought this … then I laugh! Your stories are very therapeutic for me – thanks Tiffany. Your "silly stories" are wonderful gifts. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Tjm4×5 wrote: > Yes! you ARE reading the post correctly, 1500 smack-a-roos > 1500 big ones 1500 bucks…………..dollars even. > so, I have this thing about my car….what thing you ask….well, an obsession > thing of course (hence my condition called OCD). > You see, whenever my car sounds even a weensy beensy bit WRONG, I take it to > the shop. Of course I get my oil change done also every 3 thousand miles just > like the it says in the manual etc. > So, I’ve got this 1991 Toyoty, Corolly to be exact and it’s all paid off and I > love it and so forth. Well, my Lube Stop oil change indicator of 3000 miles > had hit about 1000 miles ago (because I didn’t have any "bucks" "smack-a-roos" > "moola") and so I was obsessing about the fact that I absolutely HAD to get > this done and my poor car etc. > So, Tuesday as lunch I drive towards my favorite Lube Stop for the 10 minute > jobby. great! I have at least an hour or so….give or take depending on > what’s going on at the ol’ studio…….HELLO CLUE!!!!! It’s been a madhouse > and thus, I’ve been a madwoman……what with the increased anxiety and > all…augmenting the OCD. > So, I pull up…..at the time, there was one car in the garage getting oil > changed. I figured ..hhhmmmm…..half done or so……goody ! > The guy pulled me in and shortly after, pulled another vehicle in too. He > opened both trunks and WE BOTH WAITED………and waited………..and > waited……now, mind you,,,,,, the studio is a madhouse and my anxiety is > building about getting back PLUS I am excited because I am at the Lube Stop > that I have been obsessing that I had to get to for one month………so, you > can only imagine my dilema. > Well, to boot…….there were 2 workers total…..one under the cars and one > over. OK>…hello peeps……normally there are 5 or so….that > shouldv’eand get out of my car and closed my trunk and then get into my car and > start it. > All of the sudden this man comes out and says "turn it off" apparently he was > working on it…..oops! so they got mad too. So now everyone is mad and oil > is flying everywhere (so are tempers). The guys yells to me that he was > working on my car and letting the oil out etc. and (hello, prolee I could have > blown everyone up in the building because I started my car) another oops. > so, he says…..go on………….he opens the garage and I drive out. > ok, tiff thinks "ok, he said he let the oil out, did he put the oil back > in?" Am I ruining my car as we speak with no oil? I have to stop this car > and check, am I about to blow up" > I open the trunk and check it….it’s all there….but I refuse to believe my > own oil guage. > the point here is that I freaked about my car for the rest of the day and of > course whether or not I would blow up and so on and so I called the toyoty > dealer and made an appt. with them to change oil and OH, check a few other > things out. > Well, the car had some major problems with the bleepity bleep and the blankity > blank…..oh…..and the oil change…hahahaha > 1500.00 later, (visa of course..which I obsess about too) I am in my car and > you know that nothing else matters to me except the fact that I no longer have > to obsess about blowing up because my oil was changed. HELLO, i basically > have a new car and I’m thinking about oil…………………………i am a > freak > with a new car and some fresh oil > mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm > tiff
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Monkey it’s …..HELLO may 5 and I just read your post about my toyotee post. boy I really HAVE been out of it. thanks for the kind words you made my cinco de myo…or mayo or meow….anywho you made my day. tiffany
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Yes! you ARE reading the post correctly, 1500 smack-a-roos 1500 big ones 1500 bucks…………..dollars even. so, I have this thing about my car….what thing you ask….well, an obsession thing of course (hence my condition called OCD). You see, whenever my car sounds even a weensy beensy bit WRONG, I take it to the shop. Of course I get my oil change done also every 3 thousand miles just like the it says in the manual etc. So, I’ve got this 1991 Toyoty, Corolly to be exact and it’s all paid off and I love it and so forth. Well, my Lube Stop oil change indicator of 3000 miles had hit about 1000 miles ago (because I didn’t have any "bucks" "smack-a-roos" "moola") and so I was obsessing about the fact that I absolutely HAD to get this done and my poor car etc. So, Tuesday as lunch I drive towards my favorite Lube Stop for the 10 minute jobby. great! I have at least an hour or so….give or take depending on what’s going on at the ol’ studio…….HELLO CLUE!!!!! It’s been a madhouse and thus, I’ve been a madwoman……what with the increased anxiety and all…augmenting the OCD. So, I pull up…..at the time, there was one car in the garage getting oil changed. I figured ..hhhmmmm…..half done or so……goody ! The guy pulled me in and shortly after, pulled another vehicle in too. He opened both trunks and WE BOTH WAITED………and waited………..and waited……now, mind you,,,,,, the studio is a madhouse and my anxiety is building about getting back PLUS I am excited because I am at the Lube Stop that I have been obsessing that I had to get to for one month………so, you can only imagine my dilema. Well, to boot…….there were 2 workers total…..one under the cars and one over. OK>…hello peeps……normally there are 5 or so….that shouldv’eand get out of my car and closed my trunk and then get into my car and start it. All of the sudden this man comes out and says "turn it off" apparently he was working on it…..oops! so they got mad too. So now everyone is mad and oil is flying everywhere (so are tempers). The guys yells to me that he was working on my car and letting the oil out etc. and (hello, prolee I could have blown everyone up in the building because I started my car) another oops. so, he says…..go on………….he opens the garage and I drive out. ok, tiff thinks "ok, he said he let the oil out, did he put the oil back in?" Am I ruining my car as we speak with no oil? I have to stop this car and check, am I about to blow up" I open the trunk and check it….it’s all there….but I refuse to believe my own oil guage. the point here is that I freaked about my car for the rest of the day and of course whether or not I would blow up and so on and so I called the toyoty dealer and made an appt. with them to change oil and OH, check a few other things out. Well, the car had some major problems with the bleepity bleep and the blankity blank…..oh…..and the oil change…hahahaha 1500.00 later, (visa of course..which I obsess about too) I am in my car and you know that nothing else matters to me except the fact that I no longer have to obsess about blowing up because my oil was changed. HELLO, i basically have a new car and I’m thinking about oil…………………………i am a freak with a new car and some fresh oil mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tiff
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Heres my story of driving without trans fluid. I had a squeek sound coming from my car one night. I get home and ask my dad to check it out. We go around the corner and neither of us new what it was. So we decide I will go to the doc in the morning as orginally planned and then I will take the car in to be checked. The cars we have are old so we figured that there was probaly nothing really improtant wrong with it. Well I noticed that the car was getting harder to shift gears in as I pulled into the hospital parking lot and people were looking at me. I open the door and notice smoke coming from under the car. I checked and nothing was burning (no flames). I ask a receptionist at the desk if I can use a phone as I have no change and it is kind of an emergancy and some pay phones do not allow people to phone U back. She gives me a hard time like using the phone is a big deal to make a local call. So I get a tow truck to come pick me and the car up. I find out at the gas station the thing had probably been driven a total of 15 miles without trans fluid. This was a toyota and this cost me 1500.00.
