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Happy Fucking Birthday Part 2: Merry Effing Christmas! by dan fazio Click here for Part One When we left off, dear reader, I was stuck with a car in the shop, a broken transmission, and many angry people on my case from Gardena to Miami. Things have progressed: Today I picked up my car and drove to work. How did we get here? Amazingly, the Miami transmission salesman AGREED TO SEND ANOTHER TRANSMISSION WITHOUT PAYMENT. I typed that in capital letters because it may never occur again in the future of automotive history. He's a nice guy, named Ricardo, who initially advised me to not "think negatively" about the possibility that the shippers had damaged the initial transmission, as if that would somehow influence whether or not it was really broken. I give Ricardo 4 stars. Having cooled off, I realized that the local mechanic had a valid right to charge me $40 to remove my car from his platform. He was trying to get the job done in a hurry, and was expecting the initial transmission on a particular day. So I made peace with him, and he appears to have installed the new transmission properly. He gets 2.5 stars. The villians of this particular story are the people at Yellow Shipping. Or, as I like to refer to them, the complete pieces of shit that work at Yellow Shipping. It was they that took 14 days to send the original transmission, which they also smashed into at least two pieces. It was they that were angry at ME for some reason when I refused to accept it. And it was they who, according to Ricardo, may not compensate him for his damaged merchandise. They get -8 stars. In any case, I've rejoined the legions of happy Los Angeles motorists, and I am thrilled. This whole fiasco, by the numbers: Transmissions involved: 2 Dollars spent: 1,141 Angry mechanics: 1 People threatened: 2 Minutes spent "thinking negatively": 285 Days carpooling with girlfriend, who begins work at 6am: 8 Days driving motorcycles at high speed in carpool lanes: 6 People who mistook the photo on the prior article for me: At least 1 |
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