Post by momof3 on Nov 3, 2006 14:25:35 GMT -6
My hubby and I just bought an older model pickup back in March. When this was purchased, it already had tinted windows that were professionally installed. I don't know how long they've been like that, but the truck really looks good like this. Since my hubby drives a truck for a living, he asked me to take the truck to a shop and let them put an inspection sticker on it. I normally don't like to do this, but because it was just an inspection sticker, I decided to be nice.
I pulled into Landsdell's Auto Repair on Cliff Gookin in Tupelo. (next door to Wright's Short Stop and the muffler shop) I go to the back of the shop where a sign tells you to go and I ask the guy if I can get an inspection sticker. He looks at the truck and asked if I had tinted windows. This was obvious, but I nodded anyway. He grabbed his machine and started walking to the truck. He told me that he didn't think it would pass inspection because the tint was too dark. While walking out to my truck, he looks at me and says, "It'll cost $5.00 just to check it." I asked him if that was even if I couldn't get the sticker. He said that yes it was, that for him to put his machine on the window it would cost me $5.00. I told him never mind, that I would take it somewhere else. He must've thought that that I realized that he was just trying to line his pockets with $5.00 because then he said that the Highway Patrol told them that they had to charge that much each time they just checked. I immediately got in my truck and left.
I know that this is just $5.00, but it's the principle of the thing!!!
This is just one incident in a long line of possible scams. I'm beginning to wonder if I have "STUPID" posted on my forehead.
Another incident that happened years ago at the muffler shop that was located across the street from Tellini's:
My good friend, her adopted baby of a mixed race, and myself went to have a minor repair done on my muffler. (He just had to weld a piece back onto it.) He took one look at us (never looked under the car) and told me that I needed a whole new muffler that would cost in excess of $200.00. I immediately left and my husband brought it back up there a few days later. When the owner came out and looked at it, he told my husband that he could fix it for about $15.00. My hubby told him what had happened to me a few days before and took his business somewhere else.
Because of these incidents and others, I've decided to boycott mechanics altogether!!! I will no longer be nice to my hubby and take a vehicle to a mechanic for anything!!!!!
I pulled into Landsdell's Auto Repair on Cliff Gookin in Tupelo. (next door to Wright's Short Stop and the muffler shop) I go to the back of the shop where a sign tells you to go and I ask the guy if I can get an inspection sticker. He looks at the truck and asked if I had tinted windows. This was obvious, but I nodded anyway. He grabbed his machine and started walking to the truck. He told me that he didn't think it would pass inspection because the tint was too dark. While walking out to my truck, he looks at me and says, "It'll cost $5.00 just to check it." I asked him if that was even if I couldn't get the sticker. He said that yes it was, that for him to put his machine on the window it would cost me $5.00. I told him never mind, that I would take it somewhere else. He must've thought that that I realized that he was just trying to line his pockets with $5.00 because then he said that the Highway Patrol told them that they had to charge that much each time they just checked. I immediately got in my truck and left.
I know that this is just $5.00, but it's the principle of the thing!!!
This is just one incident in a long line of possible scams. I'm beginning to wonder if I have "STUPID" posted on my forehead.
Another incident that happened years ago at the muffler shop that was located across the street from Tellini's:
My good friend, her adopted baby of a mixed race, and myself went to have a minor repair done on my muffler. (He just had to weld a piece back onto it.) He took one look at us (never looked under the car) and told me that I needed a whole new muffler that would cost in excess of $200.00. I immediately left and my husband brought it back up there a few days later. When the owner came out and looked at it, he told my husband that he could fix it for about $15.00. My hubby told him what had happened to me a few days before and took his business somewhere else.
Because of these incidents and others, I've decided to boycott mechanics altogether!!! I will no longer be nice to my hubby and take a vehicle to a mechanic for anything!!!!!
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