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    Yekhefah
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    Angry This is why I don't carry a handgun anymore.

    I'm definitely back in Los Angeles. I'm not going to get into stereotyping, but, well.

    My car was filthy from the roadtrip and my grandparents are coming to visit in two days. I have to work today, I have to clean the house, I have to go to the grocery, and I still want to finish reading the damn Harry Potter book I've been waiting years for. I'm already stressed out, but I figured the car wash would be the easy part. I could've washed it myself, but I spent $8 I can ill afford so that it would be done faster and better (and yeah, so I could read while they did it).

    So they finish with my car, I get in, and now all of a sudden it smells like spoiled milk in there. I mean a STRONG smell of spoiled milk or something rotted. I had a dentist appointment so I figured fuck it, I'd just spritz some Febreze in it. I get out of my dentist appointment and discover the front bumper is still filthy and covered in baked-on splattered bugs; there are still bug spots on the windshield, and - here's the kicker - my door is damaged. There is already some body damage to the front of the car but it's on a completely different panel; that damage happened over a year ago, and the door damage is done today.

    So I drive back to the car wash and ask to talk to the manager, who barely speaks English and waves me off. He accuses me of trying to get him to pay for pre-existing damage and insists the damage must have already been done. He said the bad wash was not his problem, and he ignored my complaints about the stink completely. After the thousandth time he refused any culpability for the body damage, insisting it came from the same accident as the other damage, I explained to him that that was a year old but this happened today. He waved me off, TURNED HIS BACK ON ME, and walked away, loudly saying, "Stupid woman, you don't know anything."

    I was so furious I started shaking. It was all I could do not to run him over as I sped out of there. If I'd been armed, I would have shot him. How fucking DARE he. Now I'm out $8 and my car is still dirty, it smells like spoiled milk and Febreze, I have to leave my windows down to air it out (so who knows what might get stolen, the car itself maybe), and I was treated like that on top of it.

    And, I had a picture framed at Michael's last month and they fucked up the matting; when I called today to see if they had fixed it yet, they said not till Friday. (Of course that guy didn't speak intelligible English either.) So my grandparents are coming to visit and they get to ride in a smelly, dirty car and see a big ugly hole in my wall with a bare picture hanger sitting in a prominent spot. Well, at least they get the honest picture of how poor I am and how people fuck you over every goddamn day in this fucking city.

    These are the days I just want to go on a shooting spree.

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    Default Re: This is why I don't carry a handgun anymore.

    People can be dicks . Sorry you had to deal with these idiots.I think we all have at some point .

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    Awww..honey that sucks. Is there an owner or something at the car wash? I would have 'bout got arrested if it were me...seriously. I usually keep my temper in check, but that would have definatley caused me to lose it. And I do have a handgun! I really hope this car wash is part of come large chain...make as HUGE a stink about it as you can. Tell them you are going to sue them for discrimination( the whole "Stupid woman, you don't know anything." comment) and take your case to the media until they lose all their customers.

    March yourself into Michaels..tell them that you've been waiting a MONTH..and you would like your visiting grandparents who do not have much longer to live to see the picture they gave you hanging on your wall just once before they DIE(of course..none of that has to be true....but it might light a fire under their asses).



    Of course...I'm a complete and total bitch so this may not be worth it for you..but I just CAN NOT deal with disrespect like that. It pushes all my fighting buttons! Want me to fly out there and kick some ass for you????

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    Yekhefah
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    The car wash is some no-name joint staffed entirely by illegal aliens. They don't give a shit. It's on a busy corner, they have my $8, they could give a fuck if I come back or not. And they know no one is going to care. If I'd known it was all illegal aliens when I pulled in, believe me, I wouldn't have done business there. This is the kind of shit that you expect in Mexico; when the whole staff just got here from Mexico, it stands to reason you're going to get fucked over. They just saw me as some pinche gringa.

    Michael's doesn't give a shit either. They gave me some lame "we ordered the matting but it hasn't come yet" excuse. I had K take it back while I was gone, and I just found out he paid $45 for them to fix their own fucking mistake and it still isn't done yet!

    Remember when we were kids and there was a concept called "customer service"? Is that antiquated notion completely dead everywhere, or just in L.A.?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    Michael's doesn't give a shit either. They gave me some lame "we ordered the matting but it hasn't come yet" excuse. I had K take it back while I was gone, and I just found out he paid $45 for them to fix their own fucking mistake and it still isn't done yet!
    WHAT???? They fucked up and you PAID EXTRA for it????? Why why why why why why why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why whywhy why why why

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    As a native of the ghetto-hustler strip of California, I have to point out the issue here is timing & location (re: the car). Since you left the business & came back later to report the damage, the management assumed you were running a scam....This is common. There are people who make an entire living out of running scams. Not that you're doing that, but that's their safe assumption. You can go to the local TV news or paper with this & see if they can help with an "On Your Side" Consumer Rights piece...

    As for matting, I've never dealt with that...How hard is it to mess up matting...?

    I'm sorry this happened but you would have gotten the same response no matter where you went...

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    Yekhefah
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    Augh, I'm so fucking furious the LAST thing I want to do right now is go to work and flirt with a bunch of fucking broke-ass Mexicans on a Tuesday afternoon. I'm too angry to make decent money and I keep thinking about all the zillion things I have to do. But I need a haircut and highlight touchup tomorrow ($150) and a mani-pedi ($30; my nails look TERRIBLE) and a massage ($50; too much overwork, stress, and two full days of driving). I was planning to do all that tomorrow but I need to make the money today first. When I'm going to clean my filthy fucking house or go to the grocery, I'm sure I don't know.

    I'm angry too that K didn't clean the house while I was away. It's neat and the place is picked up, but it's filthy dirty. He's working this week but he wasn't working last week; the least he could've done over the weekend would be to go to Ralph's and sweep the floors. He offered to help me clean tonight, but I don't like to clean at night and anyway he needs to sleep now that he's working all week. I'm not going to start a fight over it but I'm a little pissed off I came home to such a dirty house when I have so much to do and my grandparents are coming to visit. When he goes out of town, I always make sure he comes home to a sparkling clean place. Grrrr.

    Fuck this shit. I'm going out to lunch and then hauling my ass to work, and I guess I'll go to Ralph's after work and clean tonight. And then - oh yes, THEN - I will spend tomorrow pampering myself and getting pretty. One more day. One more day. One more day. One more day. One more day. One more day. One more day...

    I just hope my grandparents don't get in until Thursday. There's a possibility they'll come in on Wednesday evening, but I hope they stop over for the night and they don't come in until Thursday. I'll have to think of a place they'll just HAVE to spend the night on the way (they went to SF and Sonoma first, and then they're driving down here).

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    madmaxine
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    I vote you firebomb K's stuff to vent your anger. LOL Just kidding.

    I think it's have a drink time!!!

    I used to get mad about days that were crammed with irritants, but not anymore...There's no way to surmount an obstacle if one is consumed by a detracting emotion....Find your "happy place" (or a couple happy on-the-rocks in a highball) and go make money!!!!

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    Yekhefah
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    Yes. Will have a drink at work as soon as I can get somebody to buy me one; in L.A. we're not allowed to buy them for ourselves. I'm just so angry at being treated that way! "Stupid woman" is the ONE thing that guy could have said to get me this pissed off. I've been called other things and let it roll off me, but how fucking DARE he call me that after damaging my car, stealing my money, doing such a terrible job, and stinking up my interior??

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    Yekhefah
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    Got a little victory, anyway. After I laid a heavy guilt trip on the guy at Michael's this morning when he told me the picture wouldn't be ready until Friday - during which I emphasized that we were paying $45 to fix THEIR mistake, and that we would appreciate it if they could expedite our order - he just called to tell me it's ready now. Bwahaha. I will be a good Jewish mother one day.

    Should've tried a guilt trip on the fuckhead at the car wash.

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    Default Re: This is why I don't carry a handgun anymore.

    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    Got a little victory, anyway. After I laid a heavy guilt trip on the guy at Michael's this morning when he told me the picture wouldn't be ready until Friday - during which I emphasized that we were paying $45 to fix THEIR mistake, and that we would appreciate it if they could expedite our order - he just called to tell me it's ready now. Bwahaha. I will be a good Jewish mother one day.

    Should've tried a guilt trip on the fuckhead at the car wash.
    Man, for not being born a Jew, you sure as hell uphold that Jewish guilt trip thing pretty well! I'm proud of you!


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